Name: Dark Matter @ LHC 2018 (#DMLHC2018)
Start: 2018-04-03T12:30:00+02:00
End: 2018-04-06T14:30:00+02:00
Location: U. of Heidelberg / KIP

Monday, 2 April 2018
Tuesday, 3 April 2018

12:30 Arrival & registration
Arrival & registration
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Foyer in front of the main lecture room (HS 1)
14:00 #1
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14:00 - 16:00
Room: Main lecture room (HS I)
Contributions

14:00 Welcome - Oleg Brandt (Ruprecht Karls Universitaet Heidelberg (DE)) The organisers

14:15 Keynote: Is the WIMP paradigm going strong? [35'+10'] - Manfred Lindner (Max Planck Institut fuer Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany)

15:00 New directions in dark matter searches from initial state radiation [20'+10'] - Zeynep Demiragli (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))

15:30 SM Background predictions at the precision frontier [20'+10'] - Jonas Lindert Jonas Lindert Jonas Lindert (University of Durham (GB))
16:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:00 - 16:30
Room: Foyer in front of main lecture room (HS 1)
16:30 #2
#2
16:30 - 18:30
Room: Main lecture room (HS I)
Contributions

16:30 Probing renormalisable dark matter portals at the LHC [20'+10'] - Felix Kahlhoefer (DESY)

17:00 Dark matter through the 125 GeV Higgs window [20'+10'] - Christian Ohm (KTH Royal Institute of Technology (SE))

17:30 Looking for hard interactions with dark matter using SM candles [20'+10'] - Shih-Chieh Hsu (University of Washington Seattle (US))

18:00 New directions in dijet searches [20'+10'] - Sarah Malik (Imperial College (GB))
18:45

18:45 - 20:45
Room: Foyer in front of main lecture hall (HS 1)
Wednesday, 4 April 2018
09:00 #1
#1
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Main lecture room (HS I)
Contributions

09:00 X + MET versus model-specific signatures: pros and cons - Kai Ronald Schmidt-Hoberg (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))

09:30 New techniques in SUSY-inspired searches - Elvira Rossi (Universita e sezione INFN di Napoli (IT))

10:00 Shedding light on dark matter with associated heavy flavour production - Dorival Gonçalves (University of Pittsburgh)
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Main lecture room (HS I)
11:00 #2
#2
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Main lecture room (HS I)
Contributions

11:00 Turning every stone at the LHC: diverse signatures with the 2HDM+a model - Giacomo Polesello (INFN, Sezione di Pavia (IT))

11:30 New directions in long-lived particle searches - Kristian Hahn (Northwestern University (US))

12:00 New colliders signatures from asymmetric dark matter - Kathryn Mary Zurek (University of California Berkeley (US)) Kathryn Zurek (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab) Kathryn Zurek (LBNL)
12:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 14:00
14:00 #1
#1
14:00 - 16:00
Room: Main lecture room (HS I)
Contributions

14:00 DM needles in the low-energy+flavour haystack - Monika Blanke

14:30 Shining light on the dark sector with LHCb - Martino Borsato (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (ES))

15:00 New results on flavor anomalies at LHCb - Paula Alvarez Cartelle (Imperial College (GB))

15:30 Flavor anomalies and their dark side - Nazila Mahmoudi (Universite Claude Bernard Lyon I (FR)) Nazila Mahmoudi (LPC Clermont & CERN) Nazila Mahmoudi (CERN and Lyon University (FR))
16:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:00 - 16:30
Room: Main lecture room (HS I)
16:30 #2
#2
16:30 - 18:30
Room: Main lecture room (HS I)
Contributions

16:30 Breaking with the WIMP paradigm: axions and dark photons - Joerg Jaeckel (ITP Heidelberg)

17:00 Squeezing dark matter using precision searches for lepton flavour violation - Niklaus Emanuel Berger (JGU Mainz)

17:30 New directions in dark photon searches in fixed-target experiments - Nikolai Krasnikov (Russian Academy of Sciences (RU))

18:00 Probing dark photons and ALPs at b-factories - Torben Ferber (DESY)
Thursday, 5 April 2018
09:00 #1
#1
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Main lecture room (HS I)
Contributions

09:00 Direct detection + Indirect detection + colliders: complementarity & interplay - FARINALDO queiroz (Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics - Heidelberg)

09:30 Direct detection: new results from noble gas experiments - Teresa Marrodán Undagoitia (Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik)

10:00 Direct detection: new results from solid state experiments - Holger Kluck (HEPHY)
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 #2
#2
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Main lecture room (HS I)
Contributions

11:00 Linking LHC and direct detection results in Higgs portals - Achim Schwenk (TU Darmstadt)

11:30 Indirect detection: galactic centre excess and connection to the LHC? - Anthony DiFranzo (Rutgers University)

12:00 Galactic centre excess: signal or background? - Mariangela Lisanti (Stanford University)
12:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 14:00
14:00 #1
#1
14:00 - 16:00
Room: Main lecture room (HS I)
Contributions

14:00 Consistent Models of Dark Matter at the LHC - Valentin Tenorth (Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik)

14:15 Search for dark matter (DM) production in association with a leptonically decaying Z boson with the ATLAS detector - Christopher Ryan Anelli (University of Victoria (CA))

14:30 Search for Dark Matter in association with a hadronically decaying Z' vector boson with the ATLAS detector - Sarah Louise Barnes (Shanghai Jiao Tong University (CN))

14:45 Mono-X Signals from Initial States and Decays - Elias Bernreuther (Heidelberg University)

15:00 Search for dark matter in the channel of Mono-H($\gamma\gamma$) at the ATLAS experiment and truth-level reweighting - Kristian Bjoerke (University of Oslo (NO))

15:15 Hunting the dark Higgs - Michael Duerr (DESY)

15:30 Interpretation of searches for Dark Matter produced in association with a hadronically decaying Standard Model boson at ATLAS - Stanislav Suchek (Ruprecht Karls Universitaet Heidelberg (DE))

15:45 The h(bb) + missing transverse momentum signature in the 2HDM + pseudoscalar simplified model - Lars Henkelmann (Ruprecht Karls Universitaet Heidelberg (DE))
#1
#1
14:00 - 16:00
Room: Lecture room #2 (HS 2)
Contributions

14:00 Disappearing charged tracks for compressed Dark Sectors - José Francisco Zurita (KIT)

14:15 Long-lived particles within the dark sector: promising signatures for dark matter searches at LHC - Alessandro Davoli

14:30 Long Lived Particles and Dark Photons at LHCb - Carlos Vazquez Sierra (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))

14:45 Constraining simplified models of dark matter with searches for long-lived charged particles - Alexis Plascencia (Durham University) Kazuki Sakurai (University of Warsaw)

15:00 Diffractive Production of Missing Mass in Cosmic Ray Air Showers above 10 PeV - Paul Doll (KIT-Karlsruhe)

15:15 Hunting All the Hidden Photons - Patrick Foldenauer

15:30 Searching for Dark Photons with SuperCDMS - Belina von Krosigk (University of British Columbia)

15:45 Radiate Neutrino masses, keV-scale DM and viable Leptogenesis via sub-TeV new physics - Sven Baumholzer
#1
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14:00 - 16:00
Room: Room 1.403+1.404 (first floor)
Contributions

14:00 CMS results in final states with a photon and missing transverse momentum - Brandon Leigh Allen (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))

14:15 Leptophilic dark matter from gauged lepton number: Phenomenology and gravitational wave signatures - Eric Madge (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)

14:30 CMS combined tt+DM search with 2016 data - Stanislava Sevova (Northwestern University (US))

14:45 Characterisation of the NLO cross sections for the associated production of dark matter with heavy quarks - Yoav Afik (Technion- Israel Institute of Technology (IL)) Yoram Rozen (Technion- Israel Institute of Technology (IL)) Marco Zaro (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))

15:00 Resonance Searches with B-jets in the Final States with the ATLAS Detector - Bingxuan Liu (Argonne National Laboratory (US))

15:15 An exceptional composite dark matter candidate - Adrian Carmona Bermudez (Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz (DE))

15:30 Search for dark matter produced in association with bottom or top quarks in √s=13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector - Marco Rimoldi (Universitaet Bern (CH))

15:45 Search for dark matter in association with a tt pair at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV in the dilepton channel with the CMS experiment - Juan Garcia Ferrero (Universidad de Cantabria (ES))
16:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:00 - 16:30
Room: Main lecture room (HS I)
16:30 #2
#2
16:30 - 18:30
Room: Main lecture room (HS I)
Contributions

16:30 Prospects of Higgs portal DM models at future colliders - Jinmian Li (KIAS)

16:45 Jet substructure tools for probing low-mass hadonic resonances at ATLAS - Merve Sahinsoy (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg (DE))

17:00 CMS searches for dark matter in events with highly-boosted resonances, using substructure and b-tagging techniques - Siddharth M Narayanan (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))

17:15 Probing the Pseudoscalar portal to Dark Matter: From the LHC to the Galactic Centre Excess - Patrick Tunney (King's College London)

17:30 Search for dark matter mediators using a Trigger-Object Level Analysis with the ATLAS detector - Claire Antel (Ruprecht Karls Universitaet Heidelberg (DE))

17:45 LHC sensitivity for non-thermalised hidden sectors - Felix Kahlhoefer (DESY)

18:00 No talk
#2
#2
16:30 - 18:30
Room: Lecture room #2 (HS 2)
Contributions

16:30 Search for the Lepton Flavour Violating decay B->emu - Guido Andreassi (EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne (CH))

16:45 Dark sector searches at BESIII - Yuping Guo

17:00 Dark Matter Bound States - Juri Smirnov (Universita e INFN, Firenze (IT))

17:15 Directional Search for Dark Matter Using Nuclear Emulsion - Andrey Alexandrov (Universita e sezione INFN di Napoli (IT)) Andrey Alexandrov (INFN sez. di Napoli)

17:30 Testing conversion-driven freeze-out at the LHC - Stefan Vogl (MPIK)

17:45 Extended Dark Matter EFT - Tommi Alanne (MPIK Heidelberg)

18:00 No talk
#2
#2
16:30 - 18:30
Room: Room 1.403+1.404 (first floor)
Contributions

16:30 Dark Matter in Association with a Single Top - Jennifer Thompson (ITP Heidelberg)

16:45 Dark matter production in association with a single top-quark at the LHC in a two-Higgs-doublet model with a pseudoscalar mediator - Priscilla Pani (CERN)

17:00 Search for electroweak production of supersymmetric states in scenarios with compressed mass spectra at √s=13 TeV with ATLAS - Jesse Liu (University of Oxford)

17:15 Perspectives of monojet searches at the LHC on supersymmetric Dark Matter - Conny Beskidt (KIT)

17:30 Searching for new physics in events with an energetic jet and large missing transverse momentum with the ATLAS detector - Giuliano Gustavino (University of Oklahoma (US))

17:45 Can we discover a light singlet-like NMSSM Higgs boson at the LHC? - Wim de Boer (KIT)

18:00 Searching for dark matter with detector-corrected observables at ATLAS - Rebecca Hayley Pickles (University of Manchester (GB))
19:30 Workshop dinner
Workshop dinner
19:30 - 21:30
Friday, 6 April 2018
09:00 #1
#1
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Main lecture room (HS I)
Contributions

09:00 Cosmic Dawn, Dark Matter, and Implications for Collider-Based Searches - Anastasia Fialkov (Harvard)

09:30 Expect the unexpected: future directions in LLP searches - Tien-Tien Yu (CERN)

10:00 Dark Matter interpretation of the neutron decay anomaly - Benjamin Grinstein (Univ. of California San Diego (US))
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Main lecture room (HS I)
11:00 #2
#2
11:00 - 12:45
Room: Main lecture room (HS I)
Contributions

11:00 Follow-up: Key channels + precision pheno - Adish Vartak (Univ. of California San Diego (US)) Caterina Doglioni (Lund University (SE)) Marek Schoenherr (CERN)

11:15 Follow-up: Complex Channels - Steven Lowette (Vrije Universiteit Brussel (BE)) Ulrich Andreas Haisch Valerio Ippolito (Sapienza Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT))

11:30 Follow-up: Low Energy / Flavour Searches & Interplay - Florian Goertz (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (DE)) Mitesh Patel (Imperial College (GB)) Ulrich Uwer (Ruprecht Karls Universitaet Heidelberg (DE))

11:45 (In-)Direct Searches Complementarity + Interpretation - Antonio Boveia (Ohio State University) Christopher McCabe (King's College London) Malcolm Fairbairn

12:00 Follow-up: Open Session A) - Greg Landsberg (Brown University (US)) Michael Kramer (Rheinisch Westfaelische Tech. Hoch. (DE))

12:15 Follow-up: Open Session B) - Michel Tytgat (Université Libre de Bruxelles) Oliver Buchmuller (Imperial College (GB))

12:30 Follow-up: Open Session C) - Mario Martinez-Perez (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (ES)) Pedro Klaus Schwaller (Mainz University)
12:45 Farewell - Oleg Brandt (Ruprecht Karls Universitaet Heidelberg (DE))
Farewell
- Oleg Brandt (Ruprecht Karls Universitaet Heidelberg (DE))
12:45 - 13:00
Room: Main lecture room (HS I)
13:00 Departure
Departure
13:00 - 14:30
Room: Main lecture room (HS I)