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Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Física Gleb Wataghin (IFGW) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Alemanha
I obtained a Bachelor's degree in Physics (1973) and a PhD in Physics from Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp) (1982). I worked as a post-doctor at the Physics Institute of the University of Heidelberg (1989-1990) and Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe (now Karlsruhe Institute of Technologie-KIT) in 1996. I have experience in Physics, with emphasis on the Physics of Elementary Particles and Fields, acting on the following subjects: cosmic rays, astroparticle physics with the Pierre Auger Observatory, and hadronic interactions induced by cosmic rays. I have worked at the Institute of Physics at Unicamp since 1974, where I am now a Full Professor. I was Deputy Director of the Institute (1998-2002) and responsible for the Directory (2002), Head of the Department of Cosmic Rays and Chronology (2003-2204), and Deputy Director for the Undergraduate School of Physics (1993-1996). I have been a member of the Pierre Auger Collaboration since 1994, acting as Chair of its Publication Committee since 2013. In Brazil, I was a member of the Scientific and Technical Council of the National Net for High Energy Physics (RENAFAE) from 2012 until 2014 and from 2015 to 2018. In 2022, I returned to the CRC of RENAFAE. I represent the Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation in the Astroparticle Physics International Forum (APIF). I was a member of the Advisory Committee for Physics and Astronomy of CNPq (2015 to 2018). Since 2015, I have participated in the steering committee of FAPESP for the experiment LLAMA. I represent FAPESP ion Finance Boards of various experiments. In 2017, I received an award from UNICAMP for my contribution to undergraduate teaching. Since 2022, I have been a member of the Astroparticle Commission (C4) of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP). Since the same year, I have participated in the Advisory Committee of the Southern Wide-field Gamma-ray Observatory (SWGO) project. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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The Pierre Auger Observatory is the largest facility worldwide designed and built to study ultra-high energy cosmic rays. Operated by an international collaboration of researchers from seventeen countries, its primary goal is the study of cosmic rays of the highest energies observed so far, in the region of 1017 eV and above. Data taken with it over the last decade have already led to maj…
During the 20th century, new physics scales were systematically explored at accelerators. The beautiful Standard Model of particle physics was discovered and impressively tested. The universe is, we are now convinced, full of mysterious dark matter and dark energy and even in the remaining 5\% of "ordinary'' matter, great secrets may still be hidden. The way towards the Planck energy scal…
The nature and possible sources of cosmic rays of ultra-high energy (E> 1 EeV) are challenging conundrums in astrophysics nowadays. The increase in quantity and quality of data achieved by the Pierre Auger Observatory offers the possibility of great advances in the understanding of this phenomenon. This project will be executed in a period when the exposure of the Auger Observatory wil…
The Pierre Auger Observatory is the result of an international effort of 17 countries, designed and built to study ultra high energy cosmic rays. Its main goal is to study cosmic rays of the highest energy observed so far, in the region of 1018 eV and above. These cosmic rays are the most energetic particles observed in nature up today. Experimental data obtained in the Observatory allow …
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This project is part of the research conducted by the Pierre Auger Collaboration and focuses on the development and application of advanced machine learning models to analyze data from extensive air showers initiated by cosmic rays with extreme energies, on the order of a few EeV or higher. Using the depth of the shower maximum development (Xmax) and the muon signal at ground, suitableneu…
Studying the arrival directions of cosmic rays on Earth is a promising way to obtain information about their origin and propagation through extragalactic space. The student will analyze directional data of cosmic rays detected at the Pierre Auger Observatory and look for evidence of anisotropy on a large angular scale by expanding the measured flux as a function of the directions in spher…
The determination of particle composition is a central problem for interpreting any result of Astrophysics of Particles. However, the techniques of identification of the primary particle of the extensive atmospheric shower are still incipient. The most used techniques are based on determining the atmospheric depth (Xmax) in which the shower reaches the largest number of particles. However…
For a long time, it is known that magnetic fields have a crucial role in Astrophysics. Despite the efforts in the last decades, the Intensity and structure of magnetic fields beyond the solar system are described only qualitatively. The search for the sources of ultra-high energy cosmic rays and the study of anisotropies in their arrival-direction distributions require detailed knowledge …
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This project is a collaboration of groups from Unicamp, USP, and the University of Adelaide aiming to study the mass composition of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays, one of the greatest challenges in Cosmic Ray Physics nowadays. In this project, parameters determined by the surface detector (SD) of the Pierre Auger Observatory will be analyzed, due to the high number of events detected in th…
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