Fundamental Physics Working Group

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The Fundamental Physics Science Group focuses on the analysis of fundamental physics that can be done with LST-1 data, such as dark matter, Lorentz Invariance, Rare event search, and cosmic-ray physics.

Members

Join us! Mailing list: join here Current Coordinators: Tomislav Terzic (Leader) [1], Sami Caroff (Deputy) [2] Past Coordinators: Michele Doro, Moritz Hütten

Meetings and Minutes

Indico starting page (Meetings, Slides, and minutes): https://indico.cta-observatory.org/category/172/

• WG meeting: 2022/03/22 [3]. Minutes: File:LST1 FUND PHYS minutes 22 03 2022.pdf
• WG meeting: 2022/04/19 [4]. Focus on Cosmic Ray Searches. Minutes File:LST1 FUND PHYS minutes 19 04 2022.pdf
• WG meeting: 2022/05/24 [5]. Focus on LIV searches. Minutes File:LST1 FUND PHYS minutes 24 05 2022.pdf
• WG meeting: 2022/06/21 [6]. Focus on DM File:Lst1 fund meeting 20220621 minutes.pdf
• WG meeting: 2022/07/19 [7]. Focus on ALP File:20220719-LST-FUND-MEETING.pdf
• WG meeting: 2022/09/30 [8]. Focus on LIV File:Minutes fund 2022sep.pdf
• WG meeting: 2022/12/16 [9]. Focus on PBH.
• WG meeting: 2023/03/01 [10]. Focus on DM File:LST1 FUND PHYS minutes 01 03 2023.pdf.

Projects in progress:

In the following we add a list of projects, more or less ordered by advancement and importance. Please add your name if interested.

LIV searches at BL LAC

• PI: S. Caroff [11] D. Kerszberg [12] Team: C. Buisson, J. Strišković, T. Terzić
• Abstract: Unbinned LIV analysis on BL Lac flare from summer 2021
• Link: Project Webpage

DM searches at the GC

• PI: Tomohiro Inada [13]. Team: M. Doro, A. Morselli, G. Rodriguez Fernandez, R. Dominik, S. Froese, D. Paneque, T. Saito, S. Abe, D. Elsaesser, T. Inada, P. Majumdar, P. Bhattacharjee, F. Saturni, S. Caroff, D. Kerszberg, V. Vitale, M. Manganaro, I. Batkovic, Y. Ohtani, D. Della Volpe, R. Lopez-Coto, L. Nickel, F. Cassol, M. Ohishi
• Abstract:
• Link: Project Webpage

ALP searches on Mrk 421 & BL Lac

• PI: Ivana Batkovic [14]. Team: Giacomo D'Amico, Michele Doro, Marina Manganaro, Sami Caroff, Pooja Bhattacharjee, Francesca Calore and David Sanchez . Contact us if interested
• Abstract: Axion Like Particles can be detected as wiggles in the spectra of faraway targets whose high energy emission crossed intense and ample region of magnetic fields. Such targets are the high energy emission from galaxies in Galaxy Cluster's core or those emitted within relativistic jets. Here we focus on the second class, and in particular on Mrk421 jet. The investigation relies on the modelization of the B-field in the ultrarelativistic jet.
• Link: Project Webpage
• Link: [[ALP searches on BL Lac| [[15]]Project Webpage]]

Direct Cherenkov

• PI: Seiya Nozaki. Team: David Paneque, Gonzalo Fernandez, Michele Doro, Yoshiki Ohtani, Domenico Della Volpe, Ruben Lopez Coto, Franca Cassol, Gabriel Emery, Mishiko Ohishi, Pol Bordas,
• Abstract:
• Link: Project Webpage

Useful links

• LST Data Access and Publication Policy (LDAPP) link

Useful Tools

• Observability display https://airmass.org/chart/obsid:lapalma/
• Coordinate converter http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/Tools/convcoord/convcoord.pl
• Distance converter http://www.convertworld.com/en/length/Parsec.html
• Energy/frequency/wavelength converter http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/Tools/energyconv/energyConv.pl
• A Date/Time Conversion Utility http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/Tools/xTime/xTime.pl
• Flux/count rate converter http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/Tools/w3pimms.html
• Catalog of TeV source http://tevcat.uchicago.edu/
• Publication of HESS, MAGIC and VERITAS
• To calculate source observability (you may have to introduce LST-1 coordinates 28.76195, -17.89005) http://www.magic.iac.es/scheduler/ or https://www.mpi-hd.mpg.de/hfm/HESS/public/Visibility.html