WONDER - Workshop On Next Dark Matter Experimental Researches at LNGS

22 Mar 2010, 08:30 → 23 Mar 2010, 20:00 Europe/Rome

"E. Fermi" auditorium (INFN - Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso)

We are organizing from March 22 to 23, 2010 at the INFN Gran Sasso Laboratory a workshop aiming to outline the Laboratory roadmap for dark matter physics in the next decade. The workshop will cover the actual status, developments, perspectives and options in direct search of dark matter and will represent a first step towards the definition of future experiments at the Gran Sasso Laboratory.

Monday, 22 March

Registration

Welcome

First Session: a general experimental and theoretical framework

1 Dark Matter: the experimental quest in the laboratory

Speaker: Carlo Rubbia

2 LHC impact on Dark Matter searches

Speaker: David G. CERDENO (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid)

11:05 Coffee break

3 Phenomenological review on Dark Matter (interaction channels against detection techniques)

Speaker: Nicolao Fornengo (INFN Torino)

4 Review on the impact of indirect Dark Matter searches on direct searches

Speaker: Piero Ullio (SISSA)

11:10 Coffee break

13:30 Lunch

Second Session: review of running Dark Matter experiments at LNGS and their future perspectives

5 CRESST

Speaker: Wolfgang Seidel

6 DAMA / LIBRA

Speaker: Pierluigi Belli (INFN Roma Tor Vergata)

16:10 Coffee break

7 The Xenon Dark Matter Search

Speaker: Elena Aprile (Columbia University)

8 WArP

Speaker: Claudio Montanari (Dipartimento di Fisica Nucleare e Teorica)

16:10 Coffee break

Third Session: review of Dark Matter search related backgrounds

9 Impact of muon-induced backgrounds and shielding

Speaker: Vitaly Kudryavtsev (University of Sheffield)

10 Use of water and scintillator shielding at Gran Sasso

Speaker: Frank Calaprice (Princeton University)

20:30 Social dinner

Tuesday, 23 March

Fourth Session: review on the status and perspectives of Dark Matter searches carried out around the world and review of new proposals at LNGS

11 Review on Dark Matter activities and new proposal in underground laboratories around the world

Speaker: Prof. Nigel Smith (CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

12 Review on future directional detectors

Speaker: Neil Spooner (University of Sheffield)

13 XMASS at Kamioka: Large Scale Cryogenic detector in the underground laboratory

Speaker: Masaki YAMASHITA (Kamioka Observatory, ICRR, University of Tokyo)

11:30 Coffee break

14 Dark Side proposal at LNGS

Speaker: Cristiano Galbiati (Princeton University)

15 DARWIN: Dark Matter WIMP searches with Noble Liquids

Speaker: Laura Baudis (University of Zurich)

11:30 Coffee break

13:30 Lunch

Fifth Session: detailed discussion on future possible detection techniques at LNGS and their discovery capability: Final Discussion

16 Sensitivity, Performance Stability and Intrinsic Background in Bolometric detectors for Dark Matter searches

Speaker: Oliviero Cremonesi (INFN)

17 Sensitivity, Performance Stability and Intrinsic Background in Cryogenic Liquids detectors in Dark Matter searches

Speaker: T. J. SUMNER (Imperial College, London)

18 Sensitivity, Performance Stability and Intrinsic Background in Scintillator detectors in Dark Matter searches

Speaker: Antonella Incicchitti (INFN Roma 2)

17:00 Coffee break

19 Concluding remarks

Speaker: Roberto Petronzio (Unknown)

20 Final discussion

17:00 Coffee break