Searching for Exotic Hidden Signatures with ATLAS in LHC Run 2: Workshop on the Detection of Dark Sector Signals -- First Day Open Sessions

Tuesday 9 Feb 2016, 08:00 → 23:00 Europe/Zurich

Sala Nova - Palazzo del Governo - Cosenza, Italy (Other Institutes)

This is the first day, open to the LHC community.  For the internal ATLAS sessions on the second and third days, go here:

Internal ATLAS days

 

LHC Run 2 is uncharted territory. The unprecedented 13 TeV centre-of-mass energy and high luminosities present a fantastic opportunity to discover new physics arising from dark or hidden sector models and an unique opportunity to unveil new boundaries in our understanding of nature.There is a rich program in the ATLAS experiment of searches for dark photons, hidden valley pions, exotic decay channels of the Higgs boson, and many other exotic hidden signatures from the dark sector.

The aim of this workshop is to bring together experts from the theoretical and the ATLAS experimental communities in various aspects of hidden sector physics for a joint brainstorming on the status of this research, identify areas for common efforts and improvements and set new promising directions. The present status of the analyses will be reviewed with the idea to unify the search strategies and tools.

This first day (9 February 2016) of the workshop is an "open session", open to all members of the LHC community around the world, and is devoted to discussions with theorists about the best possible discovery signatures and methods of evaluating models and presenting results.

Everybody can participate and contribute with ideas, comments and suggestions.

The two subsequent days (10-11 February 2016) are focused on internal ATLAS analyses and discussions, and are hosted here:

Internal ATLAS days

The workshop will be hosted in the beautiful medieval town of Cosenza, Italy.

A vidyo connection is provided following the link
http://vidyoportal.cern.ch/flex.html?roomdirect.html&key=Bxzwq8U9JBTZOzS4wapA6AeI

09:00 → 09:15 Opening by the Chancellor of the University of Calabria

Speaker: Gino Mirocle Crisci (University of Calabria)

09:15 → 09:45 Searching for Exotic Hidden Signatures with ATLAS at the LHC: 8 TeV Legacy and 13 TeV Prospects

Speaker: James Beacham (Ohio State University (US))

Beacham_ATLAS_DarkSectorOverview_Cosenza_2016Feb9.pdf

09:45 → 10:30 Overview and New(Old) Thoughts on Dark[Hidden] Sector{Valleys}

Speaker: Prof. Matt Strassler (Harvard University)

Strassler_Cosenza.pdf

10:30 → 11:15 Exotics from a Hidden Sector (Through Examples)

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

Volansky_ExoticsRun2.2.pdf

11:15 → 12:00 Photon-Jets

Speaker: Jakub Scholtz (Harvard University)

Scholtz_ATLAS_PhJets.pdf

12:00 → 12:45 Emerging Jets

Speaker: Andreas Weiler (Technische Universitaet Muenchen (DE))

cosenza_weiler.pdf

12:45 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 15:15 Inelastic Dark Matter

Speaker: Brian Shuve (Perimeter Institute)

Shuve_Cosenza_feb2016.pdf

15:15 → 16:00 Dark Matter Signatures in Cosmology and Connection with Searches at Colliders

Speaker: Pasquale Serpico (Unite Reseaux du CNRS (FR))

CosenzaSERPICO.pdf

16:00 → 18:30 Cosenza Tour

18:30 → 20:30 Traditional Calabrian Cuisine

21:00 → 23:00 UNICAL: Classical Concert