Foundations of Cosmic Ray Astrophysics - Varenna 2022

Scientific Programme

The School schedule is available here.

High-energy Cosmic Rays and gamma-radiation

Lecturer: Felix Aharonian (DIAS, Dublin, Ireland and MPIK, Heidelberg, Germany)

Slides:
- available here

Lecture Notes:
- not available yet

Additional suggested readings:

F. Aharonian and S. Casanova, Selected Topics in Gamma-Ray Astronomy, 2018 link
F. Aharonian, VHE Gamma-rays, Chapter 1, Snowmass, 2022 link

Particle acceleration in Pulsars and PWNe

Lecturer: Elena Amato (INAF Arcetri Observatory, Italy)

Slides:
- available here

Lecture Notes:
- not available yet

Additional suggested readings:
- not available yet

Charged particles in turbulent fields and Cosmic Ray transport

Lecturer: Pasquale Blasi (GSSI and INFN, L'Aquila, Italy)

Slides:
- available here

Lecture Notes:
- not available yet

Additional suggested readings:
- not available yet

Cosmic Ray propagation in extragalactic space and secondary messengers

Lecturer: Denise Boncioli (L'Aquila University and INFN, Italy)

Slides:
- available here

Lecture Notes:
- not available yet

Additional suggested readings:
- Berezinsky & Grigorieva, Astronomy and Astrophysics 1988, 199, 1 ads
- Berezinsky, Gazizov & Grigorieva, Phys.Lett.B 2005, 612, 147 ads
- Berezinsky, Gazizov & Grigorieva, Phys.Rev.D 2006, 74, 043005 ads

Particle acceleration at shocks and in turbulence

Lecturer: Damiano Caprioli (The University of Chicago, USA)

Slides:
- available here

Lecture Notes:
- not available yet

Additional suggested readings:
- Bell, MNRAS 1978, 182, 147 ads
- Blasi, Nuovo Cimento 2019, 42, 12 ads
- Caprioli, Proceedings of the ICRC2015 ads

Future facilities in high-energy astrophysics

Lecturer: Emma de Oña Wilhelmi (DESY, Hamburg, Germany)

Slides:
- available here

Lecture Notes:
- not available yet

Additional suggested readings:
- not available yet

Phenomenological models of Cosmic Ray transport in Galaxies

Lecturer: Carmelo Evoli (GSSI and INFN, L'Aquila, Italy)

Slides:
- available here

Lecture Notes:
- not available yet

Additional suggested readings:
- Jones et al., ApJ 2001, 547, 264 ads
- Lee, ApJ 1979, 229, 424 ads
- Evoli et al., PRD 2021, 103, 083010 ads

Star Formation Regions and Cosmic Rays

Lecturer: Stefano Gabici (APC, Paris, France)

Slides:
- not available yet

Lecture Notes:
- not available yet

Additional suggested readings:
- not available yet

Cosmic Ray induced instabilities in astrophysical systems

Lecturer: Alexandre Marcowith (Université Montpellier and CNRS/IN2P3, Montpellier, France)

Slides:
- available here

Lecture Notes:
- not available yet

Additional suggested readings:
- not available yet

Interactions of Cosmic Rays with matter and radiation

Lecturer: Pasquale Dario Serpico (LAPTh, Annecy, France)

Slides:
- available here

Lecture Notes:
- available here

Additional suggested readings:
- not available yet

Magnetic reconnection

Lecturer: Lorenzo Sironi (Columbia University, USA)

Slides:
- available here

Lecture Notes:
- not available yet

Additional suggested readings:
- not available yet

Basics of Cosmic Ray Feedback

Lecturer: Ellen Zweibel (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)

Slides:
- not available yet

Lecture Notes:
- not available yet

Additional suggested readings:
- not available yet