Daniel Ferenc
Professor of Physics
Scientific interest: Relativistic
Univese
Current projects:
High-Energy
Astrophysics with the
MAGIC Gamma-Ray Observatory at La Palma
&
Photon Detector Development
for Homeland Security, Nonproliferation, Medical Imaging, Particle
Astrophysics,
Neutrino Physics, Neutrino astronomy, Proton Decay Detection, Dark
Matter
(link: web page with
recent papers and patents)
&
Proton Decay, Neutrino Physics, Nautrino Astronomy
(links: UNO)
The UC Davis Group
Daniel Ferenc, Eckart Lorenz
(faculty)
Daniel Kranich (former Feodor Lynen Fellow),
Dario Hrupec (IRB), Andrew Chang, Alvin Laille (graduate students),
Leah Johnson (former ug-student)
HOT NEWS :
- UC Davis News - articles abut our
projects:
=> MORE RESULTS from the
MAGIC Observatory - MAGIC home
page
Other Articles from Press:
- ADVANCED
NANOTECHNOLOGY: June 20, 2006 Gamma ray telescope could be used to spot
plutonium (title not exactly true)
- Traveling-through-the-Wire:
MAGIC finds microquasar
- PHYSORG
.com Journal
Article, June 2, 2006: MAGIC Telescope Finds Microquasar
- PHYSORG.com
Journal
Article, August 23, 2005; An older press release abut the
first simultaneous capture of a Gamma-Ray Burst in high energy spectrum
by MAGIC, together with SWIFT at low eneries
- IEEE,
What's New at IEEE in Signal Processing, June, Volume 7, Number 6 2006:
- MAGIC
TELESCOPE DISCOVERS MICROQUASAR WITHIN EARTH'S GALAXY
- POLITECHNICAL
INSTITUTE -
'Spying Out Nukes'
More About the Microquasar
Discovery:
PRESS
RELEASE May
18 2006:
MAGIC
discovers variable very high energy gamma-ray emission from a
microquasar (pdf file)
SCIENCE
EXPRESS: The MAGIC discovery paper in Science Express May 18 2006
SCIENCE
MAGAZINE: Albert et al. 312
(5781): 1771.
- Reprint - pdf format
SCIENCE
MAGAZINE - PERSPECTIVES: I.F. Mirabel, Very Energetic γ-Rays from
Microquasars and Binary Pulsars, Science 23
June 2006: 1759-1760.
(Accompanying article)
MOVIE - ANIMATION: Gamma-ray emission as a
function of the orbital phase of the microqasar. Courtesy of the
Barcelona goup. (PowerPoint file; download, and run 'Slide Show')
NASA
- HEASARC - Picture of the Week -
MAGIC discovery
Artist's view of a microquasar:
Recent Talks:
D. Ferenc,
Applied Antineutrino Physics Workshop
D. Ferenc, Recent
Results from the MAGIC Gamma-ray Observatory, 9th Meeting of the
AAS High Energy Astrophysics Division (HEAD)
D. Ferenc, talk at IMAGING
2006
Stockholm, June 23-27 2006 (pdf)
D.
Ferenc - SORMA XI presentation (pdf),The
11th
Symposium on Radiation Measurements and Applications, May 23-25, 2006, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
(SORMA XI), May 23-25, 2006.
<>24–31 May 2006,
Orlando, Florida, USA
SPIE
talk: Danie
Ferenc,
"The
MAGIC Gamma-Ray Observatory"
SPIE talk:
Daniel Ferenc,
"Novel
Photon detectors for Neutrino Astronomy"
D.
Ferenc - presentation (pdf)
HUSEP
meeting - Henderson Underground Science and Engineering, at Stony
Brook, May 3-7 2006
Eckar Lorenz, talk at the Elba
Conference, Italy (pdf)
Eckart Lorenz- talk at LIGHT 06
Eilat,
Israel (pdf)
Eckart Lorenz for Daniel Ferenc- talk at
LIGHT 06 Eilat (pdf)
D.
Ferenc - talk (pdf)
Neutrino Sciences
2005, Neutrino Geophysics, Honolulu, Hawaii, December 14-16, 2005
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Daniel
Ferenc for the MAGIC
Collaboration,
The MAGIC gamma-ray
observatory • Nuclear Instruments and Methods in
Physics Research Section A:
Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Volume
553, Issues 1-2,
11, November 2005, Pages 274-281.
Abstract
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LINK:
Photosensor
development for comprehensive nuclear proliferation control and future
large experiments (atm. neutrino, long-baseline neutrino, geoneutrino,
neutrino astronomy, proton decay, dark matter, gamma astronomy)
MAGIC-One
Telescope Inauguration, October 10, 2003 (photo: Prof. Winston
Ko)
