42nd SLAC Summer Institute

4 Aug 2014, 08:30 → 15 Aug 2014, 21:45 US/Pacific

Kavli Auditorium (SLAC)

Dong Su (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)), JoAnne Hewett (SLAC), Richard Partridge (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Risa Wechsler (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Thomas Rizzo (SLAC)

The SLAC Summer Institute is an annual event held at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in July-August. The Institute is a two-week-long Summer School. Lectures are given Monday through Friday each morning. The afternoons contain a mixture of topical talks, discussion sessions, student projects and tours. In the evenings, there are social activities and student poster sessions. The attendance is typically a mixture from graduate students to senior researchers.

This year's theme will focus on the quest to identify Dark Matter: "Shining Light on Dark Matter".  Observations indicate that 85% of the matter in the universe is non-luminous and point towards the existence of cold dark matter particles.  However, all evidence so far is based on dark matter's gravitational interactions and its particle identity remains a deep mystery. The development of a variety of probes to illuminate the nature of Dark Matter has made this one of the most vibrant frontiers today.

All lectures and Topical Conference sessions will be held in the Kavli Auditorium. For other locations of events, please check the Indico Time Table room assignment.  

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Monday, 4 August

08:30 Registration and Light Refreshments

Lectures

1 Dark Matter and Why We Believe in it ?

Speaker: Douglas Finkbeiner (Harvard University)

10:00 Morning Break

2 Cosmology Basics (I)

Speaker: Dr Scott Dodelson (fermilab)

Slides slac14a.pdf slac14a.pptx

3 Cosmology Basics (II)

Speaker: Dr Scott Dodelson (fermilab)

12:45 Lunch

on your own

Topical Conference I

4 Results from EXO

Speaker: Igor Ostrovskiy (Stanford University)

Slides ostrovskiy_SSI_August2014.pdf

5 Results from T2K

Speaker: Prof. Eric D. Zimmerman (University of Colorado)

Slides SSI2014-zimmerman.pdf

15:45 Afternoon Break

6 Results from LHCb

Speaker: Matthew John Charles (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

Slides 2014-08-04-MatCharles-SSI-v3.pdf

7 Searches for Dark Matter and Other Results from the B-Factories

Speaker: Frank Porter (Caltech)

Slides porter140804.pdf

18:00 Reception

Pre-registration required

Tuesday, 5 August

08:30 Light Refreshments

Lectures

8 Cosmology Basics (III)

Speaker: Dr Scott Dodelson (fermilab)

Slides slac14b.pdf slac14b.ppt

10:00 Morning Break

9 Particle Dark Matter (I)

Speaker: Kathryn Zurek (University of Michigan)

Slides Zurek_14_SSI.pdf

10 Search for Dark Matter at the LHC (I)

Speaker: Daniel Whiteson (University of California Irvine (US))

Slides whiteson_dm_ssi2014.pdf

12:45 Lunch

on your own

Discussions

11 Q & A

16:00 Afternoon Break

12 Project kick-off

18:00 Dinner

Wednesday, 6 August

08:30 Light Refreshments

Lectures

13 Particle Dark Matter (II)

Speaker: Kathryn Zurek (University of Michigan)

10:00 Morning Break

14 Search for Dark Matter at the LHC (II)

Speaker: Daniel Whiteson (University of California Irvine (US))

15 Particle Dark Matter (III)

Speaker: Kathryn Zurek (University of Michigan)

12:45 Lunch

on your own

Topical Conference II

16 Physics of the Higgs Boson at the LHC

Speaker: Jim Olsen (Princeton University (US))

Slides SSI2014-Higgs-at-LHC.pdf SSI2014-Higgs-at-LHC.pptx

17 Searching for Physics Beyond the Standard Model at the LHC

Speaker: Mark Stephen Cooke (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

Slides mcooke_SSI.pdf mcooke_SSI.pptx

15:45 Afternoon Break

18 Directional Detection of Dark Matter with DRIFT

Speaker: Dinesh Loomba (University of New Mexico)

Slides SSI_final_upload.pdf

19 Results from Cosmic Ray Experiments

Speaker: Prof. Amanda Weinstein (Iowa State University)

Slides SSI2014_CosmicRays.pdf

18:00 Poster Social

Thursday, 7 August

08:30 Light Refreshments

Lectures

20 Structure Formation (I)

Speaker: Prof. Tom Abel (SLAC)

Slides Abel-SSI-Lectures-2014.pdf

10:00 Morning Break

21 Astrophysical Constraints on Dark Matter (I)

Speaker: Louis Strigari (Indianna University)

Slides strigari_SSI_2014_1.pdf

22 Direct Detection of Dark Matter: Overview

Speaker: Prof. Dan Akerib (SLAC)

Slides 201408_SSI_AkeribLecture1.pdf

12:45 Lunch

on your own

Discussions

23 Q & A

16:00 Afternoon Break

24 Project work

Friday, 8 August

08:30 Light Refreshments

Lectures

25 Structure Formation (II)

Speaker: Prof. Tom Abel (SLAC)

Slides SSI-Lectures-2014-2.pdf

10:00 Morning Break

26 Astrophysical Constraints on Dark Matter (II)

Speaker: Louis Strigari (Indiana University)

Slides Strigari_SSI_2014_2.pdf

27 Direct Detection of Dark Matter: Noble Liquid

Speaker: Prof. Dan Akerib (SLAC)

Slides 201408_SSI_AkeribLecture2.pdf

12:45 Lunch

on your own

Special Topic Session

28 Particle Fever: The Movie

Monday, 11 August

08:30 Light Refreshments

Lectures

29 Lensing Constraints on Dark Matter (I)

Speaker: Simona Vegetti (MPA Garching)

Slides Vegetti.pdf

10:00 Morning Break

30 Direct Detection of Dark Matter: Solid State

Speaker: Priscilla Cushman (University of Minnesota)

Slides SLAC_SolidDarkMatter.pdf

31 Indirect Detection of Dark Matter (I)

Speaker: Jennifer Siegal-Gaskins (Caltech)

galaxy evolution sim movie https://indico.cern.ch/event/297618/session/0/contribution/16/material/slides/1.mpg

Slides 2014-08-10_SSI_Indirect.pdf

12:45 Lunch

on your own

Topical Conference III

32 Results from the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope

Speaker: Miguel Sanchez-Conde (SLAC/Stanford)

Slides FermiDMreview_masc_110814_42SSI_v2.pdf

33 Results from IceCube

Speaker: Justin Vandenbroucke (University of Wisconsin)

Slides vandenbroucke_140811_ssi_final.pdf vandenbroucke_140811_ssi_final.ppt

15:45 Afternoon Break

34 Anomalies in the Indirect Detection of Dark Matter

Speaker: Dr Dan Hooper (fermilab)

Slides SLACSchool-Aug2014c.pdf SLACSchool-Aug2014c.pptx

18:00 Dinner

Pre-registration is required

Tuesday, 12 August

08:30 Light Refreshments

Lectures

35 Lensing Constraints on Dark Matter (II)

Speaker: Simona Vegetti (MPA Garching)

Slides Vegetti_2.pdf

10:00 Morning Break

36 Direct Detection of Dark Matter: Low Background Techniques

Speaker: Priscilla Cushman (University of Minnesota)

Slides CushmanDMBackgrounds.pdf

37 Indirect Detection of Dark Matter (II)

Speaker: Jennifer Siegal-Gaskins (Caltech)

Slides 2014-08-11_SSI_Indirect.pdf

12:45 Lunch

on your own

Discussions

38 Q & A

16:00 Afternoon Break

39 Projects

18:00 Poster Social

Wednesday, 13 August

08:30 Light Refreshments

Lectures

40 Dark Matter in the CMB

Speaker: Tracy Slatyer (MIT)

Slides SSI_2014_Lecture_Slatyer.pdf

10:00 Morning Break

41 Axions: Theory

Speaker: Michael Dine (UC Santa Cruz)

Slides slac_axions_2014.pdf

42 Axions: Experiments

Speaker: Leslie Rosenberg (University of Washington)

Slides SLAC-axions_13aug14.pdf

12:45 Lunch

on your own

Topical Conference IV

43 Results from DES

Speaker: Tesla Jeltema (University of California, Santa Cruz)

Slides jeltema_slac_2014.pdf

44 Results from BOSS

Speaker: Florian Beutler (LBNL)

Slides Beutler-BOSS-SSI2014.pdf

45 Polarization in the CMB

Speaker: Prof. Chao-Lin Kuo (SLAC/Stanford)

16:15 Afternoon Break

46 Soccer

Thursday, 14 August

08:30 Light Refreshments

Lectures

47 Dark Matter in the Milky Way

Speaker: Jo Bovy (IAS)

Slides bovy_ssi_dmmw.pdf

10:00 Morning Break

48 Dark Sectors

Speaker: Natalia Toro (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)

Slides SSI_Toro_DarkForces2.pdf

49 Dark Photon Searches

Speaker: Mathew Graham (SLAC)

Slides hiddensectors-SSI-August14-2014.pdf

12:45 Lunch

Project Presentations

50 Team 1a: Direct detection below neutrino floor

Speaker: Adam Davis (University of Cincinnati (US))

Slides DirectionalDM.pdf

51 Team 1b: Direct detection below neutrino floor

Speakers: Alden Fan (UCLA), Dan Jardin (Southern Methodist University), Jayden Newstead (Arizona State University)

Slides Neutrino_Floor.pdf

52 Team 3: Devise prediction using Dark Sky simulation

Speakers: Andrew Scacco (UC Davis), Devon Powell (Stanford)

Slides darkskyslides.pdf

53 Team 5: DM signal vs astrophysical sources

Speakers: Anna Kwa (UC Irvine), Helen Poon (Max Planck Institut fur Kernphysik), Mathieu Boudaud (LAPTh)

Slides SLAC_project.pdf

54 Team 8: How to detect invisible Higgs decays

Speaker: Asher Berlin (University of Chicago)

Slides InvHiggsSLAC.pdf

55 Team 10: LHC missing Et excess => DM signal ?

Speakers: Cristian Ignacio Pena Herrera (California Institute of Technology (US)), Sebastian Liem (NIKHEF (NL))

Slides SSI_Group10Talk_V5.pdf

56 Team 11: Direct detection down to 100 MeV

Speakers: Geertje Heuermann (KIT), Nadine Foerster (KIT)

Slides Team11_project_ssi_v7.pdf

16:06 Afternoon break

57 Team 13: Maximum mass of DM particle

Speakers: Elwin Martin (UCLA), William Jay (University of Colorado)

Slides maximum-mass-particle.pdf

58 Team 16: How to tell if axion is 20% of DM signal ?

Speakers: Daniel Egana (Rutgers University), Dustin Lorshbough (Univ of Texas, Austin), Ignacio Izaguirre (MPP)

Slides presentation.pdf

59 Team 17: Observations to distinguish CDM from other models

Speaker: Stephen Portillo (Harvard University)

Slides Group_17.pdf

60 Team 19: How to distinguish decaying and stable DM ?

Speakers: Lene Bryngemark (Lund University (SE)), Rebecca Carney (University of Edinburgh (GB)), Siim Tolk (NIKHEF (NL))

Slides ssi19_final.pdf

61 Team 20: Constrain density slope in the Milkyway

Speakers: Anjali Tripathi (Harvard University), Hamish Silverwood (University of Amsterdam), Weishi Li (Ohio State U), Zachary Slepian (H)

Slides group20_v0.pptx_V2.pdf

18:00 Dinner

Pre-registration required

Friday, 15 August

08:30 Light Refreshments

Kavli Auditorium

Lectures: Kavli Auditorium

62 Dark Matter in Galaxy Clusters

Speaker: Marusa Bradac (UC Davis)

Slides MarusaBradac_SSI2014.pdf

10:00 Morning Break

63 Complementarity of Dark Matter

Speaker: Tim Tait (University of California, Irvine)

Slides Tait-SSI15.pdf

64 The Road Ahead

Speaker: Neal Weiner (NYU)

12:45 - Adjourn -