10th PATRAS Workshop on Axions, WIMPs and WISPs

29 Jun 2014, 17:00 → 4 Jul 2014, 18:00 Europe/Zurich

CERN

Conference web page : http://axion-wimp2014.desy.de

notes L4-GVAAirport.pdf Registrants_List.pdf

Sunday 29 June

17:00 → 20:00 Welcome reception

Registration and reception at the Glassbox of Restaurant no. 1

Monday 30 June

08:00 → 09:00 Registration

09:00 → 12:50 Morning session

Conveners: Axel Lindner (D), Prof. Konstantin Zioutas (University of Patras (GR))

09:00 Welcome

Speaker: Rolf Heuer (CERN)

09:15 Review on LSW with lasers

Speaker: Friederike Januschek (DESY)

Slides LSWL-reviewFJanuschek.pdf

09:45 DRIFT and Techniques to Measure the WIMP Wind Direction

Speaker: Neil Spooner (University of Sheffield)

Slides PATRS-Directional-DRIFT2014v2.pdf

10:05 Status of ADMX

Speaker: Leslie Rosenberg (University of Washington)

Slides Rosenberg-Patras_30jun14.pdf Rosenberg-Patras_30jun14.ppt

10:25 Coffee break

10:55 Intermediate scale accidental Axion

Speaker: Alex Gomes Dias

Slides workshop_cern_2014-final-3.pdf

11:20 Distinguishing Axions from generic light scalars using EDM and Fifth-Force Experiments

Speaker: Sonny Mantry

Slides mantry-talk-CERN-PATRAS.pdf

11:45 Resonance enhancement in axion tube-experiments

Speaker: Jooyoo Hong (Hanyang University)

Slides patras2014-hong.pdf

12:05 Dark sector searches at CAST with a novel opto-mechanical force sensor

Speaker: Giovanni Cantatore (Universita e INFN (IT))

Slides GC_Patras2014.pdf

12:25 Last Results from the OSQAR “Light Shining Through a Wall” Experiment

Speaker: Pierre Pugnat (Lab. des Champs Magnet. Intenses (FR))

Slides OSQAR-Patras2014.pptx

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 17:55 Afternoon session

Conveners: Andreas Ringwald (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY), Joerg Jaeckel (IPPP)

14:00 LHC dark matter searches

Speaker: Felix Kahlhoefer (University of Oxford)

Slides FelixKahlhoefer_PATRAS.pdf

14:35 GERDA

Speaker: Oliver Schulz (MPP Munchen)

Slides patras2014-oschulz-gerda-confrec.pdf

14:55 Indirect DM observations: an overview

Speaker: Gabrijela Zaharijas (CEA Saclay)

Slides PATRAS_Zaharijas.pdf

15:30 QCD axion and dark energy

Speaker: Prof. Jihn Kim (Kyung Hee University)

Slides KimJune30.pdf KimJune30.ppt

15:50 Coffee break

16:20 The Chang E-1 mission

Speaker: Xingzhu Cui (Institute of High Energy Physics,CAS)

Slides The_Solar_X-rays_From_Solar_X-ray_Monitor_Onboard.pptm

16:40 Radioactive decays

Speaker: Karsten Kossert (Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt)

Slides kossert_decay_rates.pdf

17:15 WISPDMX, broad band measurements with Tokamaks

Speaker: Andrei Lobanov (MPIfR Bonn / Uni. Hamburg)

Slides lobanov-patras2014.pdf

17:35 Scalar Gauge Fields CP violation and Dark Matter

Speaker: Eduardo Guendelman (Ben Gurion University)

Slides SCALAR_GAUGE_FIELDS.pdf

Tuesday 1 July

09:00 → 12:35 Morning session

Conveners: Giovanni Cantatore (Universita e INFN (IT)), yannis Semertzidis (BNL)

09:00 AXION BEC II

Speaker: Kenichi Saikawa (T)

Slides 10thPATRAS_Saikawa.pdf

09:20 AXION BEC I

Speaker: Sacha Davidson (Universite Claude Bernard-Lyon I (FR))

Slides PATRAS.pdf

09:40 Constraints on Self Interacting Dark Matter from IceCube Results

Speaker: Ivone Albuquerque

Slides patras14.pdf

10:00 Astroparticles and Extra Dimensions

Speaker: Argyris Nicolaidis (University of Thessaloniki)

Slides ASTROPARTICLES_ANNECY_CERN_Nicolaidis.pdf

10:20 Coffee break

10:50 Large LAr TPCs

Speaker: Dr Igor Kreslo (Universitaet Bern (CH))

Slides ARGONTUBE-2014.pdf

11:10 An InGrid based low energy X-ray detector

Speaker: Christoph Krieger (Universitaet Bonn (DE))

Slides cern2014patrasws.pdf

11:30 Cosmologically probing ultra-light particle DM using 21 cm signals

Speaker: Yi Mao (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris)

Slides Yi_MAO_21cm_cosmology.pdf

11:55 Direct Dark matter search with the Edelweiss experiment

Speaker: Valentin Kozlov (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))

Slides kozlov-DMwithEDELWEISS-patras14.pdf

12:15 Sterile neutrino Dark Matter

Speaker: Alexey Boyarsky

Slides Patars_Boyarsky.pdf

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 17:40 Afternoon session

Conveners: Clare Burrage (U), Pierre Pugnat (Lab. des Champs Magnet. Intenses (FR))

14:00 Direct WIMPS searches: an overview

Speaker: Paolo Gondolo (University of Utah)

14:35 Dark matter, numerical simulations: an overview

Speaker: Justin Read

Slides cern_darkmattersims_justinread.pdf

15:10 LUX

Speaker: Prof. Mani Tripathi (University of California Davis (US))

Slides Tripathi_Patras.pdf

15:30 WIMP dark matter and others, axinos etc

Speaker: Laura Covi (Unknown)

Slides WIMPtoF-SWIMP.pdf

15:50 Coffee break

16:20 Solar axion results from XENON

Speaker: Nadav Priel (Weizmann Institute of Science)

Slides PATRAS_2014_axionSearces.pdf

16:40 The SOXs mission

Speaker: Partha Chowdury (University of Calcutta)

Slides SOXs_Mission.pdf SOXs_Mission.pptx

17:00 A Cosmic ALP Background and Soft X-Ray Excesses in Galaxy Clusters

Speaker: Joseph Conlon (Cambridge University)

Slides JC_Patras_Jun14.pdf

17:20 New Results from the CRESST Experiment

Speaker: Raimund Strauss (MPI Physik München)

Slides strauss_patras2014.pdf

Wednesday 2 July

09:00 → 11:40 Morning session

Conveners: Igor Garcia Irastorza (Universidad de Zaragoza (ES)), Prof. Oliver Baker (Yale University (US))

09:00 U(1)s from String Theory

Speaker: Elias Kiritsis (Unknown)

Slides

• String-U(1)-CERN-KIRITSIS.pdf
• String-U(1)-CERN.pdf
• String-U(1)-CERN.pdf

09:25 GeV neutrinos & proton beam dump

Speaker: Mikhail Shaposhnikov (EPFL)

Slides patras2014.pdf

09:45 CAST as antenna for relics?

Speaker: Prof. Dieter Hoffmann (TU-Darmstadt)

Slides CAST_DM_antenna_Hoffmann.pdf

10:05 Coffee break

10:35 A new cavity proposal

Speaker: Gray Rybka (University of Washington)

Slides 2014_07_rybka_patras_cern.pdf

11:00 Status of CAST and Solar Chameleon searches

Speaker: Theodoros Vafeiadis (CERN)

Slides Vafeiadis_PATRAS.pdf

11:20 Search for a Higgs portal to the dark sector in ATLAS

Speaker: Prof. Oliver Baker (Yale University (US))

Slides patras-talk-2014-final.pdf

12:00 → 13:00 Sandwich lunch

Sandwich lunch in la Salle des Pas Perdus, just in front of the Council Chamber

13:00 → 23:55 Excursion

Chamonix - Mont Blanc

13:00 Departure to Chamonix by bus at 13h sharp

Thursday 3 July

09:00 → 12:45 Morning session

Conveners: Laura Baudis (University of Zurich), Marc Schumann (University of Bern)

09:00 Planck

Speaker: Julien Lesgourgues (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (CH))

Slides 14.07.02_CERN_Patras.pdf

09:35 Constraining minimal $U(1)_{B-L}$ model from dark matter observations

Speaker: Tanushree BASAK (Physical Research Laboratory)

Slides 10thPatras_Tanushree.pdf

09:55 Sensitivity of H.E.S.S. II and the Cherenkov Telescope Array to detect photon-axion-like particle oscillations in different magnetic fields at high gamma-ray opacities

Speaker: Dr Manuel Meyer (Stockholm University)

Slides meyer_cta_hess_patras.pdf

10:15 WISPS in BBN

Speaker: Raffaele Tito Dagnolo (Univ. of California San Diego (US))

Slides Axion_PATRAS_July14.pdf

10:35 Coffee break

11:05 Measuring the Effectiveness of Effective Field Theories of Dark Matter (Using EFTs when interpreting LHC DM results)

Speaker: Thomas David Jacques (Universite de Geneve (CH))

Slides TJacques_Patras.pdf

11:25 KamlandZEN

Speaker: Patrick Decowski (NIKHEF (NL))

Slides decowski-KLZ-PATRAS2014.pdf

11:45 SuperCDMS

Speaker: Philippe Di Stefano (Queen's University)

Slides Patras2014_DiStefano.pdf

12:05 The Majorana Low-Background Experiment at KURF (MALBEK)

Speaker: Reyco Henning (U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Slides Henning_MALBEK.pdf

12:25 IAXO perspectives for Solar WISP searches

Speaker: Igor Garcia Irastorza (Universidad de Zaragoza (ES))

Slides Patras_IAXO_Irastorza.pdf Patras_IAXO_Irastorza.pptx

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch

13:00 → 15:00 Poster session

Snacks and drinks served

Please bring your poster at the coffee break to the conference secretary's desk beside the Council Chamber's entrance, thank you.

slides Poster_list_PATRAS.docx Poster_list_PATRAS.pdf

15:00 → 18:25 Afternoon session

Convener: Gray Rybka (University of Washington)

15:00 DAMIC

Speaker: Ben Kilminster (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))

Slides DAMIC-Kilminster-PATRAS-2014.pdf

15:20 MoEDAL at LHC

Speaker: James Pinfold (University of Alberta (CA))

Slides Patras_Meeting_CERN_June_2014.pdf

15:40 XENON

Speaker: Daniel Coderre (University of Bern)

Slides PATRAS2014_(6).pdf

16:00 EXO

Speaker: Igor Ostrovskiy (University of Alabama)

Slides ostrovskiy_patras_July2014_final.pdf

16:20 Coffee break

16:50 New axion DM experiments and prospects for IAXO DM

Speakers: Babette Döbrich (DESY), Javier Redondo (LMU/MPP Munich)

Slides IAXODM_javi_patras10.pdf patras2014_bd.pdf

17:25 The XMASS experiment

Speaker: Koichi Ichimura (Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo)

Slides xmass-Ichimura-Patras.pdf

17:45 Light DM search with a spherical proportional counter

Speaker: Ioanis Giomataris (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))

Slides PATRAS-Axion14.pdf

Friday 4 July

09:00 → 12:30 Morning session

Convener: Prof. Giovanni Cantatore (Dipartimento di Fisica - Università di Trieste e I.N.F.N. Sezione di Trieste)

09:00 First sensitivity limits of the ALPS TES detector

Speaker: Jan Dreyling-Eschweiler (DESY)

Slides patras2014_jde.pdf

09:20 GRANIT: short range forces with UCN

Speaker: Valery Nesvizhevsky (Institut Laue-Langevin)

Slides 2014.07.04_PATRAS_Geneve.pdf

09:40 Electroweak corrections to dark matter annihilation

Speaker: Michael Kramer (Rheinisch-Westfaelische Tech. Hoch. (DE))

Slides mkraemer_Patras2014.pdf

10:00 Resonant axion force detection with NMR

Speaker: Asimina Arvanitaki (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)

Slides CERNJuly2014.pdf

10:20 Coffee break

10:50 Recent results in Neutrino Astronomy

Speaker: Teresa Montaruli (Universite de Geneve (CH))

Slides Teresa_PATRAS2014.pdf

11:10 Darkside

Speaker: Richard Saldanha

Slides PATRAS_2014_Saldanha.pdf

11:30 Physics Activities at the Center for Axion and Precision Physics Research in Korea (Korean Axion Research Activities

Speaker: Yannis Semertzidis (KAIST)

Slides

• YkS_Patras_workshop_2014_0704.pdf
• YkS_Patras_workshop_2014_0704.pptx
• YkS_Patras_workshop_2014_0704.pptx

11:50 Closure

Slides Patras2015_Zaragoza_Announce.pdf Patras2015_Zaragoza_Announce.pptx