Dark Matter UK meeting

Monday, June 8, 2015 - 10:00 AM
Other Institutes (University of Liverpool)

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Jun 8, 2015
AM
10:00 AM
Coffee & registration for LZ session (until 10:30 AM) (University of Liverpool)
10:30 AM Introduction - Sergey Burdin (University of Liverpool (GB))   (University of Liverpool)
10:35 AM DM-UK Introduction - Hans Kraus (University of Oxford)   (University of Liverpool)
10:40 AM LZ overview - Henrique Araujo (Imperial College London)   (University of Liverpool)
Slides
11:00 AM Identifying Dark Matter - David G. Cerdeno (University of Durham) David Garcia Cerdeno   (University of Liverpool)
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11:30 AM Dark Matter Searches and the Neutrino Bound - Malcolm Fairbairn Malcolm Fairbairn   (University of Liverpool)
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PM
12:00 PM DM self-interaction & gravitational lensing - Andrew Robertson (Durham University)   (University of Liverpool)
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12:30 PM The muon background for the LZ experiment - David Woodward (University of Sheffield)   (University of Liverpool)
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12:45 PM Electron emission from cathodic wires in two-phase xenon detectors - Alfredo Tomas (ICL)   (University of Liverpool)
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1:00 PM --- Lunch ---
2:00 PM What can and cannot explain the DAMA data? - Vitaly Kudryavtsev (University of Sheffield)   (University of Liverpool)
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2:30 PM CYGNUS, IDM2016, and directional experiments - Neil Spooner (University of Sheffield)   (University of Liverpool)
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3:00 PM Directional detection of dark matter below the neutrino floor - Ciaran O'Hare (University of Nottingham)   (University of Liverpool)
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3:15 PM --- Coffee break ---
3:45 PM Interacting DM - Jascha Schewtschenko (Durham University)   (University of Liverpool)
4:00 PM DM Higgs-portal collider searches - Joost Vossebeld (University of Liverpool (GB))   (University of Liverpool)
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4:15 PM Development of internal sensors for the LZ experiment - Kathryn Boast (University of Oxford)   (University of Liverpool)
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4:30 PM Boulby Update - Emma Meehan (STFC)   (University of Liverpool)
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4:45 PM
Discussion (until 5:00 PM) (University of Liverpool)