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)