Dark Matter UK meeting

Monday 8 Jun 2015, 10:00 → 17:00 Europe/London

University of Liverpool (Other Institutes)

Hans Kraus (University of Oxford), Sergey Burdin (University of Liverpool (GB))

Group Photo Group Photo

10:00 → 10:30 Coffee & registration for LZ session

10:30 → 10:35 Introduction

Speaker: Sergey Burdin (University of Liverpool (GB))

10:35 → 10:40 DM-UK Introduction

Speaker: Hans Kraus (University of Oxford)

10:40 → 11:00 LZ overview

Speaker: Henrique Araujo (Imperial College London)

Slides 3_LZ-DMUK-HA150608.pdf

11:00 → 11:30 Identifying Dark Matter

Speakers: David G. Cerdeno (University of Durham), David Garcia Cerdeno

Slides 2015-06-UKDM.pdf

11:30 → 12:00 Dark Matter Searches and the Neutrino Bound

Speakers: Malcolm Fairbairn, Malcolm Fairbairn

Slides 5_DMUKliverpool2015_Malcolm.pdf 5_DMUKliverpool2015_Malcolm.pptx

12:00 → 12:30 DM self-interaction & gravitational lensing

Speaker: Andrew Robertson (Durham University)

Slides DMUK_Liverpool_2015_comp.pdf

12:30 → 12:45 The muon background for the LZ experiment

Speaker: David Woodward (University of Sheffield)

Slides DMUK080615_DavidWoodward_MuonBkg.pdf

12:45 → 13:00 Electron emission from cathodic wires in two-phase xenon detectors

Speaker: Alfredo Tomas (ICL)

Slides UK-DM_Liverpool2015_ATomas.pdf

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 14:30 What can and cannot explain the DAMA data?

Speaker: Vitaly Kudryavtsev (University of Sheffield)

Slides dmuk-vk-150608.pdf

14:30 → 15:00 CYGNUS, IDM2016, and directional experiments

Speaker: Neil Spooner (University of Sheffield)

Slides DMUK-Neil.pdf

15:00 → 15:15 Directional detection of dark matter below the neutrino floor

Speaker: Ciaran O'Hare (University of Nottingham)

Slides Ciaran_dmuk.pdf

15:15 → 15:45 Coffee break

15:45 → 16:00 Interacting DM

Speaker: Jascha Schewtschenko (Durham University)

16:00 → 16:15 DM Higgs-portal collider searches

Speaker: Joost Vossebeld (University of Liverpool (GB))

Slides UK_DM_Meeting_June_15_J_Vossebeld.pdf

16:15 → 16:30 Development of internal sensors for the LZ experiment

Speaker: Kathryn Boast (University of Oxford)

Slides DMUK_KathrynBoastSlides.pdf

16:30 → 16:45 Boulby Update

Speaker: Emma Meehan (STFC)

Slides DMUK_080615_EMeehan.pdf DMUK_080615_EMeehan.pptx

16:45 → 17:00 Discussion