Physics Beyond Colliders Kickoff Workshop

Session

Theorists - motivations, ideas and wishes

6 Sept 2016, 09:30

500/1-001 - Main Auditorium (CERN)

60. New Physics below the Fermi Scale

Mikhail Shaposhnikov (EPFL)

06/09/2016, 09:30

The Standard Model may be a valid effective field theory all the way up to the Planck scale, still it suffers from a number of theoretical and observational shortcomings. I will overview the arguments for a possible existence of new particles with masses below the electroweak scale and discuss the experimental prospects to search for them.

56. Electric dipole moments and precision g-2 as a window to New Physics

Maxim Pospelov

06/09/2016, 10:00

When the LHC results (no new physics yet, and the Higgs mass at 125 GeV) are interpreted in terms of pre-LHC expectations (SUSY), one faces a sobering thought of superpartner masses at or above 10 TeV. Only a very few types of indirect experiments are capable of probing these energy scales with radiative corrections. Electric dipole moments are perhaps the most promising avenue to access the...

58. Axions, axion like-particles, astrophysical/cosmological motivations and experimental tests

Andreas Ringwald (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY)

06/09/2016, 11:00

We review the theoretical and phenomenological motivation for axions, ALPs and other very light particles as well as the state of the art in present and future experimental searches with a particular emphasis on the possibility of them forming part of the dark matter of the Universe.

52. Detecting Dark Energy with Atom Interferometry

Clare Burrage (University of Nottingham)

06/09/2016, 11:30

I will discuss the possibility that the nature of the dark energy driving the observed acceleration of the Universe on giga-parsec scales may be determined first through metre scale laboratory based atom interferometry experiments. I will begin by discussing why our attempts to solve the cosmological constant problem lead to the introduction of new, light degrees of freedom. In order to be...

54. Ultralight dark matter and experiments to search for it

Peter Graham

06/09/2016, 13:30

Precision measurement offers a powerful new approach for particle physics. Technologies such as atom interferometry, nuclear magnetic resonance, high precision magnetometry, and torsion balances allow novel, highly sensitive experiments for direct detection of dark matter and gravitational waves. These provide the optimal method for direct detection of light dark matter candidates such as...