Low light-level detection in astroparticle physics and in medical application
 Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation Nymphenburg Castle, Munich, April 22/23, 2015


 
The Astroparticle Physics European Consortium APPEC invites technology experts from industry, project scientists and funding agencies representatives for the APPE...

Latest Developments for KM3NeT  
The first KM3NeT string: 18 DOMs are visible, each containing 31 sensitive light detectors (photomultipliers). The DOMs are interconnected with a 40 m cable consisting of glass fibers for the data transport (Photos: Nikhef). On January 19, 2015, the first detection string of the new KM3NeT neutrino telescope was shipped f...

New Head of APPEC
Paris, 9 January 2015
On January 9, 2015 the General Assembly of the Astroparticle Physics European Consortium, APPEC1 , elected Frank Linde (director of Nikhef2  from 2004 to 2014) as its new Chair. He is taking over from Stavros Katsanevas (director of APC3 ), who was chairing APPEC since November 2012. Thomas Berghöfer (DESY4 ) was reappointed as General Secretar...

Goals and Challenges for APPEC's Scientific Advisory Committee
One of the first actions undertaken by the APPEC consortium in 2013 was the appointment of its Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC). The main criterion for SAC membership, as established by the APPEC General Assembly (GA), was the internationally recognised competence of the chosen experts independently from their countries of or...

From Nikhef’s “Updates of the Experiments”: Latest developments in 2014 and expectations for the XENON Dark Matter program in 2015”
There has been a lot going on within the XENON collaboration during 2014. The project is soon to enter a new phase with the most sensitive experiment for dark matter detection. While the successful XENON100 detector continues to take data at the Gran Sasso unde...