Galileo Galilei Institute Conference: Collider Physics and the Cosmos

9 Oct 2017, 09:30 → 13 Oct 2017, 16:00 Europe/Zurich

Marco Battaglia (University of California,Santa Cruz (US)), Abdelhak Djouadi (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR))

Arcetri, Firenze (Italy)

Monday 9 October

10:00 → 11:00 Welcome and Registration

11:00 → 12:50 Astroparticle Physics

Convener: Stefania De Curtis (Universita e INFN, Firenze (IT))

11:00 Welcome Address

11:10 The great collider in the sky

Speaker: Prof. Subir Sarkar (University of Oxford (GB) and Niels Bohr Institute (DK))

Florence17_dmcollider.compressed.pdf

12:00 Dark Matter and early Universe cosmology

Speaker: Yann Mambrini

GGIpdf.pdf

12:50 → 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 → 17:00 Astroparticle Physics

14:00 Review of General Relativity tests and the recent Virgo results

Speaker: Walter Del Pozzo

14:55 Cosmology and Sterile Neutrinos

Speaker: Dr Stefano Gariazzo (IFIC-CSIC/University of Valencia)

171009_ggi.pdf

15:50 Dark Kinetic Heating of Neutron Stars

Speaker: Joseph Bramante (Queen's University & Perimeter Institute)

DMBBQ_GGI.pdf

17:30 → 19:00 Welcome Reception

Tuesday 10 October

08:45 → 09:15 Coffee

09:15 → 12:10 Higgs

Convener: Graham Garland Ross

09:15 Workshop Report "Higgs and the Cosmos"

Speaker: Abdelhak Djouadi (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR))

Djouadi-Higgs.pdf

10:05 Heavy neutrinos meet the triple Higgs coupling

Speaker: Julien Baglio

baglio_florence-2017.pdf

10:50 Electroweak phase transition and Higgs self-coupling measurement

Speaker: Seung J. Lee (KAIST)

GGI_SLEE.pdf

11:20 Composite Higgs models

Speaker: francesco Sannino (CP3-Origins)

Sannino%20GGI%20October%202017.pdf

12:15 → 13:45 Lunch Break

13:45 → 16:00 Higgs

Convener: Abdelhak Djouadi (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR))

13:45 Higgs and Inflation

Speaker: Fedor Bezrukov

HI.pdf

14:25 Inflation, Spontaneous Generation of the Planck Mass and Weyl Symmetry

Speaker: Christopher T. Hill (FNAL)

15:15 Higgs and Vacuum Stability

Speaker: Alessandro Strumia (Pisa)

2017-HiggsDecay.pdf

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee Break

16:30 → 18:00 Higgs

Convener: Abdelhak Djouadi (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR))

16:30 Fine tuning - SUSY after Higgs

Speaker: Graham Garland Ross

17:15 Higgs Boson Decay and Production at Hadron Colliders

Speaker: Michael Spira

spira.pdf

18:00 → 19:30 Walk to S. Miniato al Monte

Wednesday 11 October

08:45 → 09:15 Coffee

09:15 → 12:00 Colliders and the Early Universe

Convener: Christopher T. Hill (FNAL)

09:15 Workshop Report "Colliders Physics and the Early Universe"

Speaker: Laura Covi

GGI17-CosmoParticle.pdf

10:10 Recent ALICE results and future perspectives for the role of heavy ion collisions in the understanding of the early universe

Speaker: Andre Mischke (Utrecht University (NL))

GGI Florence, ALICE, A.Mischke, Utrecht University.pdf

11:05 Leptogenesis and colliders

Speaker: Marco Drewes

GGI Florence.pdf

12:00 → 12:30 The Church of Santa Maria Novella: Devotion, Art and Astronomy in a Florentine Church

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

16:00 → 18:00 Visit of the Church and Cloisters of Santa Maria Novella

18:15 → 22:15 Aperitif and Conference Dinner

Thursday 12 October

08:45 → 09:15 Coffee

09:15 → 12:40 Dark Matter

Convener: Roberto Contino (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)

09:15 Workshop Report "Dark Matter and Colliders"

Speaker: Andreas Goudelis (LPTHE Paris)

AndreasGGIdmSummary.pdf

10:10 Axion phenomenology

Speaker: Giovanni Villadoro (Abdus Salam Int. Cent. Theor. Phys. (IT))

10:50 Searches for axions at CAST

Speaker: Marin Karuza (Universita e INFN Trieste (IT))

florence_2017.pdf

11:20 Results from HPS e Perspectives with BDX

Speaker: Domenico D'Urso (Universita e INFN, Perugia (IT))

hps_bdx_status_durso.pdf

12:05 Searches for DM mediators

Speaker: Francesco Santanastasio (Sapienza Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT))

GGI2017conference_SearchForDMmediators_ATLASandCMS_santanastasio_v2.pdf

12:40 → 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 → 16:15 Dark Matter

Convener: Michele Redi

14:00 WIMP DM interpretation of Higgs results

Speaker: Renjie Wang (LPNHE and Institut Lagrange de Paris - ILP (FR))

DMHiggs_CPC2017v2.pdf

14:45 WIMP DM interpretation of SUSY and Exotics results

Speaker: Jeroen Schouwenberg (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))

WIMP Dark Matter interpretation of SUSY and Exotics results.pdf

15:30 The MSSM and the LHC and Dark Matter constraints

Speaker: Alexandre Arbey (Lyon U. & CERN TH)

GGI_Oct17.pdf

16:15 → 16:40 Coffee Break

16:40 → 18:15 Dark Matter

Convener: Laura Covi

16:40 Statistical analysis of the MSSM after the LHC 13 TeV data with Mastercode

Speaker: Oliver Buchmueller (Imperial College (GB))

SUSYDM-GGI2017-conference.pptx.pdf

17:30 Perspectives for direct DM searches with LZ

Speaker: Maurits van der Grinten

LZ overview Florence.pdf

Friday 13 October

08:30 → 09:00 Luggage Storage at GGI

09:00 → 09:20 Walk from GGI to Villa Il Gioiello

09:20 → 12:00 Dark Matter

Convener: Bryan Ostdiek (University of Oregon)

09:20 Workshop Report "Colliders and Cosmic Rays"

Speaker: Paolo Lipari (Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT))

cosmic-rays-lipari.pdf

10:15 Astrophysical signals of Dark Matter

Speaker: Nicolao Fornengo (University of Torino and INFN)

fornengo.pdf

10:50 Cosmic rays and anti-helium as probes of Dark Matter

Speaker: Kfir Blum (CERN)

GGI%2010132017_CR%20vs%20DM.pdf

11:25 Probing particle transport in the Galaxy with gamma rays

Speaker: Dario Grasso (INFN)

GGI17_Grasso.pdf

12:00 → 13:45 Lunch Break and visit of the Villa

13:45 → 15:25 Dark Matter

14:00 Searches for dark sector models at LHC

Speaker: Adish Vartak (Univ. of California San Diego (US))

Talk_GGI.pdf

14:40 Dark sector physics search in missing energy events with the NA64 experiment

Speaker: Balint Radics (KFKI RMKI)

NA64_GGI_2017.pdf