Beyond WIMPs: From Theory to Detection

Name: Beyond WIMPs: From Theory to Detection
Start: 2015-05-28T08:00:00+03:00
End: 2015-06-01T18:00:00+03:00
Location: Ha Goshrim, Israel

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

Ha Goshrim, Israel

Thursday 28 May
- Trip
Friday 29 May
- Overview
  
  Convener: Tomer Volansky (Tel Aviv University (IL))
  - 1
    
    Welcome
  - 2
    
    New Directions in Searching for DM beyond the WIMP
    
    Speaker: Maxim Pospelov (Perimeter Institute)
    
    Slides
  - 3
    
    Theory Overview for beyond WIMP
    
    Speaker: Kathryn Zurek (LBNL)
    
    Slides
- Coffee Break
- Structure Formation and Self-Interactions
  
  Convener: Tomer Volansky (Tel Aviv University (IL))
  - 4
    
    Self-interacting dark matter: Astrophysics
    
    Speaker: Sean Tulin (York University)
    
    Slides
  - 5
    
    Structure Formation in the LCDM Cosmology: Successes and Challenges
    
    Speaker: Dekel Avishai (Hebrew University)
    
    Slides
  - 6
    
    Discussion
    
    Speaker: Kathryn Zurek (LBNL)
- Lunch Break
- Structure Formation and Self-Interactions
  
  Convener: Jeremy Mardon (Stanford)
  - 7
    
    Evidence for Dark Matter Self-Interactions via Collisionless Shocks in Cluster Mergers
    
    Speaker: Martti Raidal (University of Tartu)
    
    Slides
  - 8
    
    Self-interacting dark matter: Models and Signatures
    
    Speaker: Hai-Bo Yu (UC Riverside)
    
    Slides
  - 9
    
    Double-Disk Dark Matter
    
    Speaker: Andrey Katz (University of Geneva and CERN)
    
    Slides
- Coffee Break
- Models
  
  Convener: Oren Slone (TAU)
  - 10
    
    Models of Self-Interacting and Strongly Interacting Dark Matter
    
    Speaker: Tim Tait (UC Irvine)
    
    Slides
  - 11
    
    Models of Light DM
    
    Speaker: Josh Ruderman (NYU)
    
    Slides
  - 12
    
    A Cosmological Solution to the Hierarchy Problem
    
    Speaker: David Kaplan (Johns Hopkins)
  - 13
    
    Discussion
    
    Speaker: Maxim Pospelov (Perimeter)
Saturday 30 May
- Direct Detection of Light Dark Matter
  
  Convener: Rouven Essig (Stony Brook)
  - 14
    
    Introduction to DD and Searching for Light DM in Noble Liquids
    
    Speaker: Ranny Budnik (Weizmann)
    
    Slides
  - 15
    
    Light DM at LUX
    
    Speaker: Aaron Manalaysay (UC Davis)
    
    Slides
  - 16
    
    Semi-conductor probes of sub-GeV Dark Matter
    
    Speaker: Tien-Tien Yu (Stony Brook)
    
    Slides
- Coffee Break
- Direct Detection of Light Dark Matter
  
  Convener: Rouven Essig (Stony Brook)
  - 17
    
    Light DM at (Super)CDMS
    
    Speakers: Jodi Cooley (SMU), Matt Pyle (UC Berkeley)
    
    Slides
  - 18
    
    Light DM at DAMIC
    
    Speaker: Javier Tiffenberg (Fermilab)
    
    Slides
  - 19
    
    Discussion
    
    Speaker: Enactali Figueroa-Feliciano
- Lunch Break
- Detection of Light Dark Matter: New Ideas
  
  Convener: Peter Sorensen (LBNL)
  - 20
    
    Using XENON100 to Probe DM-Induced Electronic Recoils
    
    Speaker: Rafael Lang (Purdue University)
    
    Slides
  - 21
    
    Using Molecules to probe sub-GeV Dark Matter
    
    Speaker: Oren Slone (Tel-Aviv University)
    
    Slides
  - 22
    
    Searches for Millicharged Particles
    
    Speaker: Eder IZAGUIRRE (Perimeter)
    
    Slides
- Coffee Break
- Detection of Light Dark Matter: New Ideas
  
  Convener: Peter Sorensen (LBNL)
  - 23
    
    Halo-Independent DD Analyses without Mass Assumptions
    
    Speaker: Patrick Fox (Fermilab)
    
    Slides
  - 24
    
    Searching for Light Hidden Sectors with Electron Beams
    
    Speaker: Gordan Krnjaic (Perimeter)
    
    Slides
  - 25
    
    Discussion
    
    Speaker: Michele Papucci (LBNL)
- Workshop Dinner
Sunday 31 May
- Trip
- Axions & Hidden Photons
  
  Convener: Yael Shadmi (Technion)
  - 26
    
    Dark Photon Dark Matter: Theory and Constraints
    
    Speaker: Josef Pradler (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
    
    Slides
  - 27
    
    New Avenues to Search for Hidden Photons
    
    Speaker: Jeremy Mardon (Stanford)
    
    Slides
  - 28
    
    Solar WISPS
    
    Speaker: Javier Redondo (Max Planck)
    
    Slides
  - 29
    
    Gravitational Interactions of Matter and Dark Matter
    
    Speaker: Yang Bai (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
    
    Slides
- Discussion over Beer
Monday 1 June
- Indirect Detection
  
  Convener: Alessandro Strumia (Pisa)
  - 30
    
    Indirect Detection: a Status Update on Anomalies
    
    Speaker: Tracy Slatyer (MIT)
    
    Slides
  - 31
    
    Selected Fermi Results
    
    Speaker: Simona Murgia (UC Irvine)
  - 32
    
    Exploring Contributions of Unresolved Point Sources to the GeV Excess
    
    Speaker: Mariangela Lisanti (Princeton)
  - 33
    
    New Limits on Dark Matter Scenarios from Neutrino Telescopes
    
    Speaker: Alejandro Ibarra (TUM)
  - 34
    
    Discussion
    
    Speaker: Marco Cirelli
- Back to Tel-Aviv