Dark Sectors Workshop

from Thursday 28 April 2016 (07:00) to Saturday 30 April 2016 (21:00)
SLAC

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
28 Apr 2016
29 Apr 2016
30 Apr 2016
AM
08:30 Workshop Logistics (Kavli Aud.) - John Jaros (SLAC)  
08:45 Welcome (Kavli Aud.) - JoAnne Hewett (SLAC)  
09:00 Theory & Dark Photon WG Primer (Kavli Aud.) - Natalia Toro (SLAC)  
09:45 --- Coffee Break ---
10:15 Dark Matter at Accelerators WG Primer (Kavli Aud.) - Philip Schuster  
11:00 Direct Detection WG Primer - Rouven Essig  
11:35 Rich Dark Sectors primer - David Morrissey (TRIUMF)  
11:45 WG Goals & Challenge Questions - Natalia Toro (SLAC)  
08:30
Working Group Reports & Discussion (until 09:45)
09:45 --- Coffee Break ---
10:00
Direct Detection - Matt Pyle (UC Berkeley) jeremy mardon (Stanford University) (until 12:00)
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  
10:00
Dark Matter at Accelerators - Marco Andrea Battaglieri (Universita e INFN (IT)) Eder Izaguirre Dr Gordan Krnjaic (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory) Richard Van de Water (Los Alamos National Laboratory) (until 12:00)
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  
10:00
Rich Dark Sectors - David Morrissey (TRIUMF) Bertrand Echenard (Caltech) Brian Shuve (Perimeter Institute) (until 12:00)
10:00 Exotics at SHiP - Andrei Golutvin (Imperial College London)  
10:20 Exotics Overview - Dr Yue Zhang (Caltech)  
10:40 Contributed Slides & Discussion (Exotics)  
11:20 Discussion and Challenge Questions (Exotics)  
10:00
Visible Dark Photon Searches - James Alexander (Cornell University (US)) Maxim Perelstein Maxim Perelstein (Cornell) (until 12:00)
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)  
08:30
Working Group Reports & Discussion (until 09:45)
09:45 --- Coffee Break ---
10:00
Joint Visible/Accelerators Session - Eder Izaguirre Richard Van de Water (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Maxim Perelstein (Cornell) Marco Andrea Battaglieri (Universita e INFN (IT)) Gordan Krnjaic (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory) James Alexander (Cornell University (US)) Gordan Krnjaic (Fermilab) Maxim Perelstein (until 12:00)
10:00 Mainz - Achim Denig (Univ. Mainz)  
10:30 Light Thermal Dark Matter through the Higgs Portal - Gordan Krnjaic (Fermilab)  
10:30
Direct Detection - Matt Pyle (UC Berkeley) jeremy mardon (Stanford University) (until 12:00)
PM
12:00 --- Lunch ---
13:30
Direct Detection - Matt Pyle (UC Berkeley) jeremy mardon (Stanford University) (until 15:00)
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  
13:30
Dark Matter at Accelerators - Richard Van de Water (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Eder Izaguirre Marco Andrea Battaglieri (Universita e INFN (IT)) Dr Gordan Krnjaic (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory) (until 15:00)
13:30 MiniBoone Present - Rex Tayloe  
13:50 SBN Future - Robert Cooper  
14:10 Daedelus Theory - Yoni Kahn  
14:30 Discussion and Challenge Questions  
13:30
Visible Dark Photon Searches - Maxim Perelstein (Cornell) James Alexander (Cornell University (US)) Maxim Perelstein (until 15:00)
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 ---
15:15
New Facilities (until 16:30)
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
Dark Matter at Accelerators - Eder Izaguirre Richard Van de Water (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Marco Andrea Battaglieri (Universita e INFN (IT)) Dr Gordan Krnjaic (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory) (until 18:00)
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  
16:30
Rich Dark Sectors - Bertrand Echenard (Caltech) David Morrissey (TRIUMF) Brian Shuve (Perimeter Institute) (until 18:00)
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)  
16:30
Visible Dark Photon Searches - James Alexander (Cornell University (US)) Maxim Perelstein (Cornell) Maxim Perelstein (until 18:00)
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) ---
12:00 --- Lunch ---
13:30
Direct Detection - jeremy mardon (Stanford University) Matt Pyle (UC Berkeley) (until 15:00)
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  
13:30
Dark Matter at Accelerators (until 15:00)
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  
13:30
Rich Dark Sectors - David Morrissey (TRIUMF) Bertrand Echenard (Caltech) Brian Shuve (Perimeter Institute) (until 15:00)
13:30 Dark Matter Self-Interactions Overview - Hai-Bo Yu (University of Michigan)  
13:50 Slide Presentation and Discussions (Non-Minimal DM) - Nikita Blinov (TRIUMF) Dr Haipeng An (Caltech) Maxim Perelstein (Cornell)  
14:25 Discussion and Challenge Questions (Non-Minimal DM)  
13:30
Visible Dark Photon Searches - Maxim Perelstein James Alexander (Cornell University (US)) Maxim Perelstein (Cornell) (until 15:00)
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 ---
15:15
Direct Detection - Matt Pyle (UC Berkeley) jeremy mardon (Stanford University) (until 17:15)
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  
15:15
Joint Visible/Accelerators Session - James Alexander (Cornell University (US)) Richard Van de Water (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Marco Andrea Battaglieri (Universita e INFN (IT)) Eder Izaguirre Maxim Perelstein (Cornell) Dr Gordan Krnjaic (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory) Maxim Perelstein (until 17:30)
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 - Prof. Jim Alexander (Cornell )  
16:40 LNF Experiment - Mauro Raggi (LNF INFN)  
17:00 Discussion  
18:00 --- Dinner @ Trellis ---
12:00 --- Lunch ---
13:00
Direct Detection - jeremy mardon (Stanford University) Matt Pyle (UC Berkeley) (until 14:30)
13:00
Dark Matter at Accelerators - Marco Andrea Battaglieri (Universita e INFN (IT)) Eder Izaguirre Dr Gordan Krnjaic (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory) Richard Van de Water (Los Alamos National Laboratory) (until 14:30)
13:00 Preparation for Close Out Session  
13:00
Rich Dark Sectors - Brian Shuve (Perimeter Institute) Bertrand Echenard (Caltech) David Morrissey (TRIUMF) (until 14:30)
13:00 Rich Dark Sectors: Preparation for Close-Out  
13:00
Visible Dark Photon Searches - James Alexander (Cornell University (US)) Maxim Perelstein Maxim Perelstein (Cornell) (until 14:30)
14:30 --- Coffee Break ---
14:45
Closeout Presentations & Discussion (until 17:00)