BLAST! Event Photos Posted

• Pictures taken at the 3rd Annual Biard Lecture are posted on our Facebook! CCAPP's Facebook Page


• Don't have a Facebook account? You can still view the pictures at this link! http://tinyurl.com/ycop336

CCAPP Videos on YouTube

• Videos of CCAPP are posted on YouTube! Learn about CCAPP, the Symposium and watch the poster session:
• Explore @ CCAPP
• CCAPP Symposium 2009
• CCAPP Symposium Rapid Poster Session

CCAPP Symposium Sets Cosmological Agenda

• The CCAPP Symposium's public lecture given by Francis Halzen was featured in OnCampus! Read the full article: OnCampus Article


• Watch the Lecture Online!

Excess positrons are linked to Geminga pulsar

• Are recently-detected excesses of cosmic electrons and positrons the first direct evidence for the existence of dark matter particles? That has been the hope of many physicists, while others have suggested a more mundane origin in a nearby pulsar. Now researchers in the US claim that the excesses can be linked to high-energy gamma rays emitted by the Geminga pulsar.


• Researchers included The Ohio State University's Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics Matthew Kistler and Hasan Yuksel and Todor Stanev at the University of Delaware.


• The image to the left is the extended region of high-energy gamma rays around the Geminga pulsar as seen by the Milagro experiment.


• Physicsworld.com Article
• Science News Article
• Read the Full Paper

Is Our Galaxy Doomed to be Destroyed by Galactic Bombardment?

• Ohio State University astronomer Stelios Kazantzidis has performed supercomputer simulations to determine whether collisions with our dwarf galactic neighbors will one day tear apart the disk of the Milky Way.


• OSU Research News
• Yahoo News
• Science Daily News
• USA News

A New Way to Measure Cosmic Distances

• Ohio State astronomers and researchers using LBT have found a way to measure distances to objects three times farther away in outer space than previously possible.
• Involved in this study is Krzysztof Stanek, Jonathan Bird and Jose Prieto.
• Read the Full Article.

IceCube featured in Columbus Dispatch

• The IceCube neutrino observatory was featured in the Columbus Dispatch Sunday May 17, 2009. Article includes interview with CCAPP researcher Carsten Rott.
• Read the Full Dispatch Article.

Photomultiplier tube from SuperK

The photomultipier tube pictured here was used to watch the Super Kamiokande (SuperK) water for the atmospheric neutrino. It was one of 10,000's used to image large tanks of water hoping to capture the light produced when neutrinos interact with protons and electorns in the tank.

Come visit the Mezzanine Floor of the Physics Research Building to see it on display and read more about it.

CCAPP Funding Opportunities

• CCAPP encourages applications from visitors (short and long term), for mini-workshops, and for proposals related to CCAPP science initiatives.