Name: Dark Sectors Workshop
Start: 2016-04-28T07:00:00-07:00
End: 2016-04-30T21:00:00-07:00
Location: SLAC

Monday, 25 April 2016
Tuesday, 26 April 2016
Wednesday, 27 April 2016
Thursday, 28 April 2016
08:30 Workshop Logistics (Kavli Aud.) - John Jaros (SLAC)
Workshop Logistics (Kavli Aud.)
- John Jaros (SLAC)
08:30 - 08:45
08:45 Welcome (Kavli Aud.) - JoAnne Hewett (SLAC)
Welcome (Kavli Aud.)
- JoAnne Hewett (SLAC)
08:45 - 09:00
09:00 Theory & Dark Photon WG Primer (Kavli Aud.) - Natalia Toro (SLAC)
Theory & Dark Photon WG Primer (Kavli Aud.)
- Natalia Toro (SLAC)
09:00 - 09:45
09:45 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
09:45 - 10:15
10:15 Dark Matter at Accelerators WG Primer (Kavli Aud.) - Philip Schuster
Dark Matter at Accelerators WG Primer (Kavli Aud.)
- Philip Schuster
10:15 - 11:00
11:00 Direct Detection WG Primer - Rouven Essig
Direct Detection WG Primer
- Rouven Essig
11:00 - 11:45
11:35 Rich Dark Sectors primer - David Morrissey (TRIUMF)
Rich Dark Sectors primer
- David Morrissey (TRIUMF)
11:35 - 11:45
11:45 WG Goals & Challenge Questions - Natalia Toro (SLAC)
WG Goals & Challenge Questions
- Natalia Toro (SLAC)
11:45 - 12:00
12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:30
13:30 Session 1 (Kavli 3rd floor)
Session 1 (Kavli 3rd floor)
13:30 - 15:00
Contributions

13:30 MiniBoone Present - Rex Tayloe

13:50 SBN Future - Robert Cooper

14:10 Daedelus Theory - Yoni Kahn

14:30 Discussion and Challenge Questions
Session 1 (Berryessa in SUSB)
Session 1 (Berryessa in SUSB)
13:30 - 15:00
Contributions

13:30 Kathryn Zurek -- Detecting DM with superfluids

13:45 Yue Zhao -- Detecting DM with superconductors

14:00 Tongyan Lin -- Absorption of bosonic light dark matter in superconducting targets

14:15 discussion
Session 1 (Kavli Auditorium)
Session 1 (Kavli Auditorium)
13:30 - 15:00
Contributions

13:30 SHIP - Gaia Lanfranchi (Istituto Nazionale Fisica Nucleare Frascati (IT))

14:00 SeaQuest - Ming Liu (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

14:30 LHCb - J Michael Williams (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))
15:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:00 - 15:15
15:15 Overview Talks (Kavli Auditorium)
Overview Talks (Kavli Auditorium)
15:15 - 16:30
Contributions

15:15 Facilities Overview - James Alexander (Cornell University (US))

16:00 LCLS-II and SLAC Facilities for Dark Sector Searches - Tor Raubenheimer (SLAC)
16:30 Session 2 (Kavli Auditorium TBC)
Session 2 (Kavli Auditorium TBC)
16:30 - 18:00
Contributions

16:30 DUNE/LBNF Experiment - Animesh Chatterjee

16:50 DUNE/LBNF Theory - I - Bogdan Dobrescu

17:05 DUNE/LBNF Theory - II - Adam Ritz

17:20 Dark Matter at SeaQuest - Stefania Gori

17:40 Discussion and Challenge Questions
Session 1 (Berryessa in SUSB)
Session 1 (Berryessa in SUSB)
16:30 - 18:00
Contributions

16:30 Light Hidden Sectors & Dark Higgses - Adam Ritz (University of Victoria)

16:50 Dark Naturalness Searches - Andrew Haas (New York University)

17:10 Contributed Slides and Discussion (Dark Masses & Naturalness)

17:35 Discussion and Challenge Questions (Dark Masses & Naturalness)
Session 2 (Kavli 3rd floor TBC)
Session 2 (Kavli 3rd floor TBC)
16:30 - 18:00
Contributions

16:30 APEX - Bogdan Wojtsekhowski (JLab)

17:00 HPS - Timothy Knight Nelson (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
18:00 Reception (courtyard outside SUSB, near the SLAC cafe)
Reception (courtyard outside SUSB, near the SLAC cafe)
18:00 - 20:00
Friday, 29 April 2016

08:30 Friday
Friday
08:30 - 09:45

09:45 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
09:45 - 10:00
10:00 Session 3 (Berryessa -- SUSB 2nd floor)
Session 3 (Berryessa -- SUSB 2nd floor)
10:00 - 12:00
Contributions

10:00 BDX - Andrea Celentano

10:15 DRIFT at BDX - Daniel Snowden-Ifft

10:30 BDX at SLAC - Clive Field Philip Schuster

10:50 Dark Light - Ross Corliss

11:10 Discussion and Challenge Questions
Session 2 (Mammoth – SUSB 3rd floor)
Session 2 (Mammoth – SUSB 3rd floor)
10:00 - 12:00
Contributions

10:00 Jeremy Mock -- Xenon Bubble Chambers for Direct Dark Matter Detection

10:15 Tien-Tien Yu -- LDM detection using electron scattering in scintillators

10:30 Aaron Manalaysay -- Towards the ultimate ionization threshold in semiconductor detectors

10:45 Lauren Hsu -- Low Energy Nuclear Recoil Ionization Yield and SuperCDMS Sensitivity (k vs threshold effects)

11:00 Ranny Budnik -- Color Centers as radiation detectors

11:15 discussion
Session 2 (Havasu – SUSB 3rd floor)
Session 2 (Havasu – SUSB 3rd floor)
10:00 - 12:00
Contributions

10:00 Exotics at SHiP - Andrei Golutvin (Imperial College London)

10:20 Exotics Overview - Yue Zhang (Caltech)

10:40 Contributed Slides & Discussion (Exotics)

11:20 Discussion and Challenge Questions (Exotics)
Session 3 (Almanor -- SUSB 3rd floor)
Session 3 (Almanor -- SUSB 3rd floor)
10:00 - 12:00
Contributions

10:00 VEPP-3 (remote speaker) - Igor Rachek (Budker Institute, Novosibirsk)

10:30 ATLAS (remote speaker) - James Beacham (Ohio State University (US))

11:00 Belle II - Christopher Hearty (University of British Columbia)
12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:30
13:30 Session 4 (Berryessa -- SUSB 2nd floor)
Session 4 (Berryessa -- SUSB 2nd floor)
13:30 - 15:00
Contributions

13:30 Inelastic Dark Matter at Accelerators - Gordan Krnjaic

13:50 Belle II Theory - Yiming Zhong

14:10 Neutrino and Dark Sector - Alexander Friedland

14:30 Discussion and Challenge Questions
Session 3 (Mammoth – SUSB 3rd floor)
Session 3 (Mammoth – SUSB 3rd floor)
13:30 - 15:00
Contributions

13:30 Maria Elena Monzani -- Perspectives for low-mass dark matter searches with the LZ experiment

13:45 Tien-Tien Yu -- LDM detection with electron recoils in with semiconductor targets

14:00 Yoni Kahn -- Searching for sub-GeV DM with Graphene Target

14:15 discussion
Session 3 (Havasu – SUSB 3rd floor)
Session 3 (Havasu – SUSB 3rd floor)
13:30 - 15:00
Contributions

13:30 Dark Matter Self-Interactions Overview - Hai-Bo Yu (University of Michigan)

13:50 Slide Presentation and Discussions (Non-Minimal DM) - Haipeng An (Caltech) Maxim Perelstein (Cornell) Nikita Blinov (TRIUMF)

14:25 Discussion and Challenge Questions (Non-Minimal DM)
Session 4 (Almanor -- SUSB 3rd floor)
Session 4 (Almanor -- SUSB 3rd floor)
13:30 - 15:00
Contributions

13:30 5th Force - Flip Tanedo (UC Irvine)

13:50 KLOE-2 - Enrico Graziani (INFN - Sezione Roma III)

14:10 SeaQuest - Susan Gardner (University of Kentucky)

14:30 Dark Pion Theory - Keisuke Harigaya (k)
15:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:00 - 15:15
15:15 Session 4 (Berryessa -- SUSB 2nd floor)
Session 4 (Berryessa -- SUSB 2nd floor)
15:15 - 17:15
Contributions

15:15 Antonio Polosa: Carbon nanotubes for DM directional detection

15:30 Dan McKinsey -- DM detection in liquid Helium

15:45 Scott Hertel -- Helium part II

16:00 discussion
Session 1 (Kavli Auditorium)
Session 1 (Kavli Auditorium)
15:15 - 17:30
Contributions

15:15 NA64 - Dipanwita Banerjee

15:35 Comments about Missing Momentum Experiments - Natalia Toro (SLAC)

15:40 LDMX -- Light Dark Matter eXperiment - Jeremy Mans (University of Minnesota (US))

16:00 Discussion

16:20 Cornell Experiment - Jim Alexander (Cornell )

16:40 LNF Experiment - Mauro Raggi (LNF INFN)

17:00 Discussion
18:00 Dinner @ Trellis
Dinner @ Trellis
18:00 - 21:00
Saturday, 30 April 2016

08:30 Saturday
Saturday
08:30 - 09:45

09:45 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
09:45 - 10:00
10:00 Session 2
Session 2
10:00 - 12:00
Contributions

10:00 Mainz - Achim Denig (Univ. Mainz)

10:30 Light Thermal Dark Matter through the Higgs Portal - Gordan Krnjaic (Fermilab)
10:30 Closing discussion
Closing discussion
10:30 - 12:00

12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:00
13:00 Session 6 (Havasu -- 3rd floor)
Session 6 (Havasu -- 3rd floor)
13:00 - 14:30
Contributions

13:00 Preparation for Close Out Session
prep for close out (Toluca -- 4th floor)
prep for close out (Toluca -- 4th floor)
13:00 - 14:30
Session 4 (Almanor -- SUSB 3rd floor)
Session 4 (Almanor -- SUSB 3rd floor)
13:00 - 14:30
Contributions

13:00 Rich Dark Sectors: Preparation for Close-Out
Session 6 (Berryessa -- 2nd floor)
Session 6 (Berryessa -- 2nd floor)
13:00 - 14:30

14:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
14:30 - 14:45

14:45

14:45 - 17:00