Working Group Meeting of COST Action COSMIC WISPers (CA21106)

13 Feb 2025, 08:30 → 14 Feb 2025, 18:00 Europe/Zurich

01.403-01.404 (Kirchhoff Institute for Physics)

Alexander Stoll (Kirchhoff-Institute for Physics, Heidelberg University), Loredana Gastaldo (Kirchhoff Institute for Physics, Heidelberg University)

Axions and other very weakly interacting slim (m << GeV) particles (WISPs) are easily accommodated in several  extensions of the Standard Model of Particle Physics. Searches for WISPs are strongly motivated by our attempts  to understand the nature of the dark matter and puzzling astrophysical and particle physics observations.

The Working Group Meeting will shape the activities of the COST Action "COSMIC WISPers in the Dark Universe: Theory, astrophysics, experiments" (CA21106). The objective of the meeting is to promote a discussion among the different communities involved in the project,  with the immediate aim of reviewing the present experimental and theoretical status of WISP searches and plan further directions of investigation. Highlights related to the different Working Groups will be presentes as well as status report of each Working Group.

Thursday 13 February

08:30 → 09:20 Registration

Conveners: Alessandro Mirizzi, Dr Loredana Gastaldo (Kirchhoff Institute for Physics, Heidelberg University)

09:20 → 09:30 Welcome

09:30 → 11:00 Highlights: WG1

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 → 13:00 Highlights: WG2

13:00 → 14:30 Coffee Break: Lunch

14:30 → 16:00 Highlights: WG3

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee Break

16:30 → 18:00 Highlights: WG4

19:00 → 21:00 Dinner

Friday 14 February

09:30 → 11:00 News from CA 21106 Community

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 → 13:00 WG Reports

13:00 → 14:30 Coffee Break: Lunch

14:30 → 16:00 Round table and closing