Dark Matter UK meeting

Monday Jun 8, 2015, 10:00 AM → 5:00 PM Europe/London

University of Liverpool (Other Institutes)

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

Group Photo Group Photo

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

10:30 AM → 10:35 AM Introduction

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

10:35 AM → 10:40 AM DM-UK Introduction

Speaker: Hans Kraus (University of Oxford)

10:40 AM → 11:00 AM LZ overview

Speaker: Henrique Araujo (Imperial College London)

Slides 3_LZ-DMUK-HA150608.pdf

11:00 AM → 11:30 AM Identifying Dark Matter

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

Slides 2015-06-UKDM.pdf

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

Speakers: Malcolm Fairbairn, Malcolm Fairbairn

Slides 5_DMUKliverpool2015_Malcolm.pdf 5_DMUKliverpool2015_Malcolm.pptx

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

Speaker: Andrew Robertson (Durham University)

Slides DMUK_Liverpool_2015_comp.pdf

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

Speaker: David Woodward (University of Sheffield)

Slides DMUK080615_DavidWoodward_MuonBkg.pdf

12:45 PM → 1:00 PM Electron emission from cathodic wires in two-phase xenon detectors

Speaker: Alfredo Tomas (ICL)

Slides UK-DM_Liverpool2015_ATomas.pdf

1:00 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch

2:00 PM → 2:30 PM What can and cannot explain the DAMA data?

Speaker: Vitaly Kudryavtsev (University of Sheffield)

Slides dmuk-vk-150608.pdf

2:30 PM → 3:00 PM CYGNUS, IDM2016, and directional experiments

Speaker: Neil Spooner (University of Sheffield)

Slides DMUK-Neil.pdf

3:00 PM → 3:15 PM Directional detection of dark matter below the neutrino floor

Speaker: Ciaran O'Hare (University of Nottingham)

Slides Ciaran_dmuk.pdf

3:15 PM → 3:45 PM Coffee break

3:45 PM → 4:00 PM Interacting DM

Speaker: Jascha Schewtschenko (Durham University)

4:00 PM → 4:15 PM DM Higgs-portal collider searches

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

Slides UK_DM_Meeting_June_15_J_Vossebeld.pdf

4:15 PM → 4:30 PM Development of internal sensors for the LZ experiment

Speaker: Kathryn Boast (University of Oxford)

Slides DMUK_KathrynBoastSlides.pdf

4:30 PM → 4:45 PM Boulby Update

Speaker: Emma Meehan (STFC)

Slides DMUK_080615_EMeehan.pdf DMUK_080615_EMeehan.pptx

4:45 PM → 5:00 PM Discussion