Starting on March 7th, lectures will be held on Mondays and Wednesdays afternoon (13-15h).
We will also have a journal club on Fridays (13-14h) where we will discuss current papers in the field of astroparticle physics.

Topics

Messengers from the high-energy Universe: the data 

(based on Chapter 10 of Introduction to Particle and Astroparticle Physics, de Angelis&Pimenta)

• charged CRs
• gamma rays
• neutrinos
• gravitational waves

Journal club:

• PAMELA measurement of positron fraction, PRL 2013
• Fermi LAT measurement of positron fraction, PRL 2012
• AMS-02 measurement of the proton flux, PRL 2015

Galactic high-energy astrophysics

• Galactic environment:
• magnetic fields (review: R. Jansson, PhD Thesis)
• InterStellar Radiation field (review: Porter&Strong, 2005)
• Gas content (review: K. Ferriere, Rev.Mod.Phys.73:1031-1066, 2001)
• Galactic cosmic rays:
• energy losses (reviews: Ghisellini, G. (2012); Blumenthal and Gould, Rev. of Modern Phy.,  (1970))
• diffusion processes
• GALPROP code:
• WebRun, Tutorial
• state of the art: Fermi LAT Galactic diffuse emission analysis (and updated GALDEF files)
• CR acceleration (review: P. Blasi Astron.Astrophys.Rev. 21 (2013))
• Galactic sources:
• pulsars (review: Hooper, Blasi&Serpico (2009))
• SNR
• Fermi Bubbles

Journal club

1. on energy losses:
• Planck determination of the polarized emission from Galactic dust, Planck intermediate results. XIX.
• Planck determination of the Large Scale Galactic magnetic field, Planck intermediate results. XLII.
  
2. on Galactic Sources:

• Galactic Center PeVatron: HESS Collaboration, Nature (2016)
• SNR: 
• 1st Fermi LAT SNR catalog, Acero et al. (2015);
• SNR as proton accelerators: Fermi LAT Collaboration (2013)
• Gamma-ray pulsar revolution, Caraveo, P. (2013)
• Fermi Bubbles:
• Crocker et al. (2015)
• Su et al. (2010)
• Galactic Center Excess: Calore et. al (2015)

Extragalactic high-energy astrophysics

• sources:
• Star Forming Galaxies
• AGNs
• Intergalactic magnetic fields (IGMF)
• EBL

Tutorial on Fermi LAT public data usage: Cosmax

Dark Matter

• Early Universe (thermal relic decoupling; BBN)
• Structure formation and (dark) mater clustering
• Dark matter search strategies and targets