Beyond WIMPs: From Theory to Detection

28 May 2015, 08:00 → 1 Jun 2015, 18:00 Israel

Ha Goshrim, Israel

Thursday, 28 May

08:00 → 18:00 Trip

Friday, 29 May

09:00 → 10:30 Overview

Convener: Tomer Volansky (Tel Aviv University (IL))

09:00 Welcome

09:10 New Directions in Searching for DM beyond the WIMP

Speaker: Maxim Pospelov (Perimeter Institute)

Slides Pospelov.2015.pdf

09:50 Theory Overview for beyond WIMP

Speaker: Kathryn Zurek (LBNL)

Slides Zurek.2015.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:30 Structure Formation and Self-Interactions

Convener: Tomer Volansky (Tel Aviv University (IL))

11:00 Self-interacting dark matter: Astrophysics

Speaker: Sean Tulin (York University)

Slides Tulin.2015.pdf

11:30 Structure Formation in the LCDM Cosmology: Successes and Challenges

Speaker: Dekel Avishai (Hebrew University)

Slides Dekel.2015.pdf

12:00 Discussion

Speaker: Kathryn Zurek (LBNL)

12:30 → 14:30 Lunch Break

14:30 → 16:00 Structure Formation and Self-Interactions

Convener: Jeremy Mardon (Stanford)

14:30 Evidence for Dark Matter Self-Interactions via Collisionless Shocks in Cluster Mergers

Speaker: Martti Raidal (University of Tartu)

Slides Raidal.2015.pdf

15:00 Self-interacting dark matter: Models and Signatures

Speaker: Hai-Bo Yu (UC Riverside)

Slides Yu.2015.pdf

15:30 Double-Disk Dark Matter

Speaker: Andrey Katz (University of Geneva and CERN)

Slides Katz.2015.pdf

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee Break

16:30 → 18:30 Models

Convener: Oren Slone (TAU)

16:30 Models of Self-Interacting and Strongly Interacting Dark Matter

Speaker: Tim Tait (UC Irvine)

Slides Tait.2015.pdf

17:00 Models of Light DM

Speaker: Josh Ruderman (NYU)

Slides Ruderman.2015.pdf

17:30 A Cosmological Solution to the Hierarchy Problem

Speaker: David Kaplan (Johns Hopkins)

18:00 Discussion

Speaker: Maxim Pospelov (Perimeter)

Saturday, 30 May

09:00 → 10:30 Direct Detection of Light Dark Matter

Convener: Rouven Essig (Stony Brook)

09:00 Introduction to DD and Searching for Light DM in Noble Liquids

Speaker: Ranny Budnik (Weizmann)

Slides Budnik.2015.pdf

09:30 Light DM at LUX

Speaker: Aaron Manalaysay (UC Davis)

Slides Manalaysay.2015.pdf

10:00 Semi-conductor probes of sub-GeV Dark Matter

Speaker: Tien-Tien Yu (Stony Brook)

Slides TTYu.2015.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:40 Direct Detection of Light Dark Matter

Convener: Rouven Essig (Stony Brook)

11:00 Light DM at (Super)CDMS

Speakers: Jodi Cooley (SMU), Matt Pyle (UC Berkeley)

Slides Cooley.2015.pdf Pyle.2015.pdf

11:40 Light DM at DAMIC

Speaker: Javier Tiffenberg (Fermilab)

Slides Tiffenberg.2015.pdf

12:10 Discussion

Speaker: Enactali Figueroa-Feliciano

12:40 → 14:30 Lunch Break

14:30 → 16:00 Detection of Light Dark Matter: New Ideas

Convener: Peter Sorensen (LBNL)

14:30 Using XENON100 to Probe DM-Induced Electronic Recoils

Speaker: Rafael Lang (Purdue University)

Slides Lang.2015.pdf

15:00 Using Molecules to probe sub-GeV Dark Matter

Speaker: Oren Slone (Tel-Aviv University)

Slides Slone.2015.pdf

15:30 Searches for Millicharged Particles

Speaker: Eder IZAGUIRRE (Perimeter)

Slides Izaguirre.2015.pdf

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee Break

16:30 → 18:30 Detection of Light Dark Matter: New Ideas

Convener: Peter Sorensen (LBNL)

16:30 Halo-Independent DD Analyses without Mass Assumptions

Speaker: Patrick Fox (Fermilab)

Slides Fox.2015.pdf

17:00 Searching for Light Hidden Sectors with Electron Beams

Speaker: Gordan Krnjaic (Perimeter)

Slides Krnjaic.2015.pdf

17:30 Discussion

Speaker: Michele Papucci (LBNL)

20:15 → 23:00 Workshop Dinner

Sunday, 31 May

07:30 → 15:00 Trip

16:00 → 18:00 Axions & Hidden Photons

Convener: Yael Shadmi (Technion)

16:00 Dark Photon Dark Matter: Theory and Constraints

Speaker: Josef Pradler (Austrian Academy of Sciences)

Slides Pradler.2015.pdf

16:30 New Avenues to Search for Hidden Photons

Speaker: Jeremy Mardon (Stanford)

Slides Mardon.2015.pdf

17:00 Solar WISPS

Speaker: Javier Redondo (Max Planck)

Slides Redondo.2015.pdf

17:30 Gravitational Interactions of Matter and Dark Matter

Speaker: Yang Bai (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Slides Bai.2015.pdf

21:00 → 22:30 Discussion over Beer

Monday, 1 June

09:00 → 11:30 Indirect Detection

Convener: Alessandro Strumia (Pisa)

09:00 Indirect Detection: a Status Update on Anomalies

Speaker: Tracy Slatyer (MIT)

Slides Slatyer.2015.pdf

09:30 Selected Fermi Results

Speaker: Simona Murgia (UC Irvine)

10:00 Exploring Contributions of Unresolved Point Sources to the GeV Excess

Speaker: Mariangela Lisanti (Princeton)

10:30 New Limits on Dark Matter Scenarios from Neutrino Telescopes

Speaker: Alejandro Ibarra (TUM)

11:00 Discussion

Speaker: Marco Cirelli

12:00 → 16:00 Back to Tel-Aviv