DM @ LHC 2014: Merton College, Oxford

25 Sept 2014, 08:30 → 27 Sept 2014, 17:20 Europe/London

Caterina Doglioni (Universite de Geneve (CH)), David Berge (NIKHEF (NL)), Sarah Malik (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB)), Steven Worm (STFC - Rutherford Appleton Laboratory), Subir Sarkar (Subir Sarkar (University of Oxford & Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen)), Ulrich Haisch (Institut fur Theoretische Physik - Universitaet Zuerich), Valentin Khoze (Durham University)

Dark Matter at the Large Hadron Collider (DM@LHC) is a workshop to further develop simplified models and effective field theory approaches to DM, taking stock of the final results of the 8 TeV LHC run, and to prepare for the next phase of data-taking at higher energies.

Particular emphasis will be given to exploring new signals of DM including models that may be challenging for direct or indirect detection, and in more sophisticated techniques to improve the existing searches.

DM@LHC is a discussion-oriented workshop featuring short talks by theorists and experimentalists actively working on LHC signals of Dark Matter.

DM@LHC 2014 is supported by:

                              

Conference posters

• DMLHC_v1.pdf
• DMLHC_v1.png
• DMLHC_v2.pdf
• DMLHC_v2.png

Maps

• http://www.dailyinfo.co.uk/sheet/maps/2010/centre-day-BIG.gif
• http://www.dailyinfo.co.uk/sheet/pdf/Centralweb.pdf
• Plan_of_Merton_College_(new_with_TS_Eliot).pdf

Workshop summary 10.1016/j.dark.2015.08.001 arxiv.org:1506.03116

Thursday 25 September

09:00 → 12:30 Session 0

Conveners: Ms Caterina Doglioni (Universite de Geneve (CH)), Sarah Eno (University of Maryland (US))

09:00 Workshop Registration

09:15 Workshop Introduction

Speaker: Steven Worm (STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB))

Slides

• 140925_DMLHC2014_opening.pdf
• DMLHCannouncement.pdf
• New_Doc_86.pdf

09:30 Theoretical Overview

Speaker: Neal Weiner (NYU)

Slides DMLHC.pdf

11:00 Search for Dark Matter in the monophoton channel

Speaker: Robyn Lucas (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB))

Slides Talk_DMMonophoton_Oxford_withATLASnew_25Sept.pdf

11:30 Searches for Dark Matter at the LHC in Z or hadronic W events

Speaker: Amelia Jean Brennan (University of Melbourne (AU))

Slides DM_LHC_Oxford_WorkshopVersion.pdf

12:00 Search for Dark Matter in mono-lepton events

Speaker: Alaettin Serhan Mete (University of California Irvine (US))

Slides Mete_MonoLepton.pdf

12:35 → 13:55 Lunch

14:00 → 17:40 Session 1

Conveners: Neal Weiner (NYU), Prof. S Sarkar (University of Oxford (GB))

14:00 CMS Search for Dark Matter produced in association with top quarks

Speaker: Deborah Pinna (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))

Slides DMtop_DMLHC_final.key DMtop_DMLHC_final.pdf

14:30 Dark Matter from invisible Higgs at the LHC

Speaker: Jim Brooke (University of Bristol (GB))

Slides JimBrooke_DM@LHC2014.pdf

15:00 DM@LHC: Loose ends

Speaker: Ulrich Andreas Haisch (University of Oxford (GB))

Slides DM@LHC2014.pdf

15:30 Discussion: DM@LHC run-1: the good, the bad & the ugly

16:30 Optimising DM searches at the LHC searches using relic density constraints

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

Slides DMLHC_TJacques.pdf

17:00 The race (through the labyrinth?) to directly detect dark matter

Speaker: Christopher Tunnell (Enrico Fermi Institute-University of Chicago-Unknown)

Slides direct_detect_v2.pdf

17:40 → 18:55 Welcome Reception and Poster Session

19:30 → 21:30 Dinner

Friday 26 September

09:00 → 12:30 Session 2

Conveners: Luca Malgeri (CERN), Ulrich Andreas Haisch (University of Oxford (GB))

09:00 Dark Matter results from Monojets at the LHC

Speaker: Khristian Kotov (Ohio State University (US))

Slides kk_2014.09.26.odp kk_2014.09.26.pdf

09:25 Fermion Portal Dark Matter

Speaker: Joshua Berger (Cornell University)

Slides jberger.pdf

09:50 Mono-jet searches for dark matter: QCD effects and structure of dark-matter couplings

Speaker: Dr Emanuele Re

Slides talk.pdf

10:50 DM dijet/contact interaction interplay

Speaker: Herbi Dreiner (Bonn University)

Slides dreiner-LHC-dm-oxford-9-2014.pdf

11:15 Getting past the neutrino barrier, and dijets close to resonance

Speaker: Malcolm Fairbairn (Unknown)

Slides fairbairnoxforddm2014.pdf fairbairnoxforddm2014.pptx

11:40 Invisible Z' and dark matter in Collider and Direct Detection searches

Speaker: Bryan Zaldívar Montero (IFT UAM/CSIC)

Slides zaldivar_oxford14.pdf

12:05 Dark matter, heavy quarks, and the galactic center excess

Speaker: Tongyan Lin (urn:Google)

Slides lin-oxford_09_26_14.pdf

12:35 → 13:55 Lunch

14:00 → 17:30 Session 3

Conveners: Sarah Malik (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB)), Dr Stephen Mrenna (FERMILAB)

14:00 Experimental summary of SUSY Dark Matter searches at the LHC

Speaker: Yu Nakahama

Slides DMatLHC_26092014.pdf

14:30 Testing Light Neutralino Dark Matter at the LHC

Speaker: Lorenzo Calibbi (ULB, Brussels)

Slides DM@LHC_calibbi.pdf

15:00 The interplay of the LHC and Direct Dark Matter Detection in unravelling Natural Supersymmetry at the Focus Point

Speaker: Alexander Belyaev (STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB))

Slides dm_at_lhc2014-belyaev.pdf

16:00 Dark matter in the MSSM, Dr. ARBEY, Alexandre

Speaker: Alexandre Arbey (Lyon U.)

Slides Oxford_Sep14.pdf

16:30 Conformally Symmetric Extensions of the Standard Model & Dark Matter

Speaker: Juri Smirnov (Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics)

Slides DM_RSSB_Talk.pdf

17:00 Towards a Supersymmetric Description of the Fermi Galactic Center Excess

Speaker: Thomas Rizzo (SLAC)

Slides OX-DM-2014.pdf

17:30 → 19:15 Discussions at the pub, tour of Merton

19:30 → 21:30 Dinner

Saturday 27 September

09:00 → 13:30 Session 4

Conveners: Steven Worm (STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB)), Tongyan Lin (urn:Google)

09:00 Theoretical uncertainties in the predictions for direct detection experiments

Speaker: Felix Kahlhoefer (University of Oxford)

notes DMLHCPDF.pdf

Slides DMLHC.pptx

09:30 LHC searches for Dark Matter at 13 TeV

Speaker: Andrea Di Simone (University of Freiburg)

Slides disimone_16_9.pdf

10:00 Future of jet+MET searches

Speaker: Matthew Dolan (IPPP, Durham)

Slides Dolan_DMLHC.pdf

11:00 Simplified Models for Dark Matter and Missing Energy Searches at the LHC

Speaker: Giorgio Busoni

Slides oxford_merton_27_09_Simplified_Models_DM_MET_LHC oxford_merton_27_09_Simplified_Models_DM_MET_LHC.pdf

11:25 Workshop Summary

Speaker: Prof. Tim M.P. Tait (University of California, Irvine)

Slides Tait-DMLHC.pdf

12:15 Workshop Close & Future Plans

Speakers: Ms Caterina Doglioni (Universite de Geneve (CH)), David Berge (NIKHEF (NL)), Prof. S Sarkar (University of Oxford (GB)), Sarah Malik (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB)), Steven Worm (STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB)), Ulrich Andreas Haisch (University of Oxford (GB)), Valentin Khoze (High Energy Physics Division (HEPD))

14:00 → 17:00 Contingency / Working Meetings