Light Dark World International Forum 2021

13 Dec 2021, 12:00 → 15 Dec 2021, 16:00 US/Eastern

Brian Thomas Batell, Hye-Sung Lee (KAIST)

Light Dark World 2021 

December 13 - 15, 2021

PITT PACC, University of Pittsburgh, USA

Zoom Connection:
https://pitt.zoom.us/j/91391835001
Meeting ID: 913 9183 5001
Passcode: LDWPitt

Light Dark World 2021 is the sixth meeting of the Light Dark World International Forum. It will be held virtually on December 13-15, 2021, via Zoom and is hosted by the Pittsburgh Particle Physics, Astrophysics, and Cosmology Center (PITT PACC), at the University of Pittsburgh. 

Light Dark World 2021 will bring together global experts from experiment and theory to discuss recent advances and develop new opportunities to study new light particles beyond the Standard Model, including light gauge boson, light scalar, light dark matter, axion, axion-like particle, light sterile neutrinos and dark energy.

Previous Meetings of the Light Dark World Series are

• Light Dark World 2020, Sydney-CPPC, Australia (online)
• Light Dark World 2019, Erwin Schrödinger Institute, Vienna, Austria
• Light Dark World 2018, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea
• Light Dark World 2017, Pittsburgh, USA
• Light Dark World 2016, IBS Center for Theoretical Physics of the Universe, Daejeon, Korea

 

Plenary Speakers:

• Celine Boehm (Sydney U.)
• Vedran Brdar (Fermilab and Northwestern U.)
• Luigi Corona (INFN, Pisa)
• David Curtin (Toronto U.)
• Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine (New Mexico U.)
• Gilly Elor (Mainz)
• Akshay Ghalsasi (Pittsburgh U.)
• Anne Green (Nottingham U.)
• Yonit Hochberg (Hebrew U.)
• Lam Hui (Columbia U.)
• Sunghoon Jung (Seoul Natl. U.)
• Doojin Kim (TAMU, College Station)
• Harikrishnan Ramani (Stanford U.)
• Sarah E. Shandera (Penn State)
• Nhan Tran (Fermilab)

 

 

(Image courtesy of Light Pollution Atlas)

LDW 2021 poster.pdf

LDW 2021 poster (speaker list).pdf

Monday 13 December

12:00 → 12:40 Mesogenesis

Speaker: Gilly Elor

Meso_Dec_LDM_Elor_V2.pdf

12:40 → 13:20 Dark Sector Searches at Belle II

Speaker: Luigi Corona (INFN - National Institute for Nuclear Physics)

DS_BELLE2_LDW2021_LC.pdf

13:20 → 14:00 New Results and Opportunities for Detecting Terrestrially Bound Dark Matter

Speaker: Harikrishnan Ramani (Yang Institute Of Theoretical Physics)

Light Dark Worlds.pdf

14:00 → 14:30 Coffee Break

14:30 → 15:10 Hubble Tension

Speaker: Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine (University of New Mexico)

Light_dark_2021_cyr-racine.pdf

15:10 → 15:50 Light Dark Matter: From Cosmological Probes Down to Laboratory Experiments

Speaker: Celine Boehm (LAPP-Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique des Particules ()

LDW__Dec2021_Boehm_DM_icloud2_sent copy.pdf

Tuesday 14 December

12:00 → 12:40 Primordial Black Holes

Speaker: Anne Green

Green-PBHs-lightdark.pdf

12:40 → 13:20 Muon g-2 and New Physics

Speaker: David Curtin (University of Toronto)

david_curtin_muon_collider_no_lose_seminar_40m_2021.12.14_light_dark_world_workshop.pdf

13:20 → 14:00 Dark Sector Searches at Fixed Target Experiments

Speaker: Nhan Tran (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

lightdarkworld.pdf

14:00 → 14:30 Coffee Break

14:30 → 15:10 ALP Searches at Reactor Experiments

Speaker: Doojin Kim (Texas A & M University (US))

Presentation_PITTPACC_DoojinKim.pdf

15:10 → 15:50 Gravitational Waves and Dark Matter

Speaker: Sunghoon Jung

GWphenoDM-SJung.pdf

Wednesday 15 December

12:00 → 12:40 New Avenues for Light Dark Matter Direct Detection

Speaker: Yonit Hochberg (Hebrew University)

YH_LDW_2021_indico.pdf

12:40 → 13:20 Astrophysics and Chemistry of Dark Atoms and Molecules

Speaker: Sarah Shandera

LightDarkWorld2021.pdf

13:20 → 14:00 Wave Dark Matter

Speaker: Lam Hui

Pitt2021b.pdf

14:00 → 14:30 Coffee Break

14:30 → 15:10 MiniBoone, MicroBoone, and New Physics

Speaker: Vedran Brdar (University of Zagreb (HR))

Vedran.pdf

15:10 → 15:50 Thermal Misalignment of Scalar Dark Matter

Speaker: Akshay Ghalsasi (University of Pittsburgh)

DM_Planck_presentation.pdf