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AXION-WIMP 2010

AXION-WIMP 2010 Scientific Programme  · 

Scientific Programme

 

Monday 5/07/2010

Time

Title/Topic

Speaker

09:00-09:25

Registration

 
   

09:25

Welcome and Logistics

L. Baudis

   
 

Dark matter in the Universe

 
   

09:30

Cosmology in the 2010’s: new insights into fundamental physics

R. Jimenez, University of Barcelona

10:00

News from structure and galaxy formation

B. Moore, UZH

10:00-10:30

Discussion/Coffee

 
   

11:00

CMB: WMAP, Planck, other

L. Verde, Barcelona

11:30

Motivation for WIMPs and WISPs

I. Antoniadis, CERN

12:00-14:00

Discussion/Lunch

 
   
 

Indirect detection of WIMPs

 
   

14:00

Overview of principles and techniques

C. Savage, Stockholm

14:30

Dark matter searches with HESS/MAGIC/CTA

D. Horns, Uni Hamburg

14:50

PAMELA

R. Sparvoli, Uni of Rome Tor Vergata

15:10

FERMI

L. Strigari, SLAC

15:30

Asymmetric dark matter

M. Frandsen, Oxford

16:00-16:30

Discussion/Coffee

 
   
 

Laboratory experiments searching for WISPs

 
 

Microwave cavity experiment searching for hidden photons

 

16:30

Principles and overview

J. Jaeckel, IPP/U. Durham

17:00

ALPS at DESY

K. Ehret, DESY

17:20

Lab searches for WISPs (GammeV)

W. Wester, FNAL

   

17:40-19:00

Reception at the Physics Institute

 
 

Dinner free in town, for suggestions please see: http://www.zuerich.com/en/page.cfm/restaurants/restaurants_x

 

 

Tuesday 6/07/2010

Time

Title/Topic

Speaker

 

Laboratory experiments searching for WISPs

 
   

09:00

High frequency (GHz and higher) searches

K. Baker, Yale

09:20

OSQAR

A. Siemko, CERN

09:40

CAST

T. Papaevangelou, Saclay

10:00

Evidence for an axion-like particle from blazar spectra?

M. Roncardelli, Pavia

10:15

Study of the discovery potential of next generation LSW experiments

P. Arias Reyes, DESY

10:30

Overview on superconducting single-photon detectors for photon energies from meV to keV

A. Engel, UZH

10:50-11:15

Discussion/Coffee

 
   

11:15

Engineering aspects of microwave axion generation and detection experiments using RF cavities

F. Caspers, CERN

11:45

Cavity experiment

P. Williams, Daresbury

12:05

High frequency axion experiment

P. Slocum, Yale

12:25-14:00

Discussion/Lunch

 
   
 

Astrophysics (direct and indirect) experiments searching for WISPs

 
   

14:00

Principles, overview (ALPS in the sky)

A. Mirizzi, DESY

14:30

The Sun's magnetic field and upper limits to the 14keV X-ray line

K. Phillips, MSSL

14:50

Extragalactic background light

T. Kneiske, Uni Hamburg

15:10

Solar axions, ALPS signatures

K. Zioutas, Patras

15:40

White dwarf axions

J. Isern, ICE

16:00

Solar chameleons

P. Brax, Saclay

16:20-16:50

Discussion/Coffee

 
   

16:50

Hidden sector photons from the Sun

J. Redondo, MPI

17:10

ALPS - a solution to the cosmological photon-survival puzzle?

F. Avignone, USC

17:30

Search for solar paraphotons

S. Gninenko, INP-Moscow, and K. Zioutas, Patras

17:40

Stochastic conversion of TeV photons into axion-like particles

D. Montanino, U.
del Salento

18:15-19:00

Public Lecture (in German) -"Das Geheimnis der Dunklen Materie: Woraus besteht das Universum"?

G. Raffelt, MPI für Physik, Munich

 

Dinner free in town, for suggestions please see: http://www.zuerich.com/en/page.cfm/restaurants/restaurants_x

 

 

Wednesday 7/07/2010

Time

Title/Topic

Speaker

 

Direct Detection of WIMPs

 
   

09:00

Overview of principles, issues

L. Strigari, SLAC

09:30

EDELWEISS

G. Gerbier, Paris

09:50

CDMS

D. Balakishiyeva, UFL

10:10

DAMA/LIBRA

R. Cerulli, LNGS/INFN

10:30

ZEPLIN-III

B. Edwards, RAL

10:50-11:10

Discussion/Coffee

 
   

11:10

XMASS

M. Yamashita, Kamioka

11:30

DRIFT

D. Walker, University of Sheffield

11:50

ArDM

C. Regenfus, Uni Zürich

12:10

XENON and DARWIN

U. Oberlack, Mainz

12:30-13:50

Discussion/Lunch

 
   

14:00

Excursion: to Pilatus (~2100 m) From there you will have a fantastc view of the Alps and the Vierwaldstättersee (http://www.pilatus.ch/)

 

 

Thursday 8/07/2010

Time

Title/Topic

Speaker

 

Dark matter detection and the first collisions at the LHC

 
   

09:00

(WIMP) Dark matter at colliders

F. Moortgat, ETHZ

09:30

Combined analysis direct/indirect/accelerators

G. Bertone, Paris

10:00-10:30

Discussion/Coffee

 
   
 

Neutrinos

 
   

10:30

Neutrinos from particle physics, theory

L. Everett, UMW

11:00

Neutrino Astronomy and IceCube

T. Montaruli, UWM

11:30

Neutrinos from laboratory experiments

G. Wilkström, Geneva

   
 

New ideas and developments

 
   

12:00

Low background, low energy detectors for WISP search experiments

G. Cantatore, INFN and U. Trieste

12:20

Group Picture

 

12:30-13:30

Discussion/Lunch

 
   

13:30

Ultra High Energy CR and Physics Beyond the Standard Model

I. Albuquerque, São Paulo

14:00

On WIMPs

G. Servant, CERN

14:30

New physics with ultra-low energy detectors

I. Giomataris, CERN

15:00

Current status of sub-GeV hidden particle searches

S. Andreas, DESY

15:20

Searches for Dark Matter candidates with electron beams at JLAB

A. Afanasev, JLAB

15:40

Axion-like particle search with high intensity lasers

B. Döbrich, U. of Jena

16:00-16:30

Discussion/Coffee

 
   

16:30

Torsion experiments

S. Hoedl, U. of Washington

16:50

Cosmological constant and self-tuning

J. Kim, Seoul

17:10

Spectroscopic probes of the hidden sector

S. Roy, IPPP/Durham University

   

19:00

Conference Dinner at the "Gnuesserei": http://www.gnuesserei.ch/

 

 

Friday 9/07/2010

Time

Title/Topic

Speaker

 

Visions for the Future, Discussions, Statements from large labs

 
   

09:00

New physics between the EW and Planck scale

G. Burdman, Sao Paulo

09:30

Cosmology

D. Chung, UMW

10:00-10:30

Discussion/Coffee

 
   

10:30

Underground Laboratories

L. Votano, LNGS

11:00

CERN
(without slides)

S. Bertolucci, CERN

11:30

DESY

J. Mnich, DESY

12:00

Visions for astroparticle physics

S. Katsanevas, IN2P3/CNRS

 

Axion Stragegy Workshop

G. Cantatore, Trieste

13:00-14:30

Lunch and End of Meeting (axion strategy workshop during lunch time)

 

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