Dark Forces: Searches for New Forces at the GeV-scale

from Thursday 24 September 2009 (08:00) to Saturday 26 September 2009 (18:00)
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (Bldg. 48 ROB A/B/C/D)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
24 Sept 2009
25 Sept 2009
26 Sept 2009
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08:00 Registration  
08:45 Welcome and Overview - Dr Rouven Essig (on behalf of organizers)  
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09:00 Motivations for a dark force from astrophysics and WIMP searches - Prof. Neal Weiner (New York University)  
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09:35 Theories of Dark Forces - Prof. Nima Arkani-Hamed (Institute for Advanced Study)  
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10:10 --- Coffee Break ---
10:35 Searching for the Light Dark Gauge Boson in GeV-Scale Experiments. - Prof. LianTao Wang (Princeton University)  
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11:05 Dark Sectors at High Energy Colliders - Prof. Scott Thomas (Rutgers University)  
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11:35 Dark Photon Searches at D0 - Prof. Yuri Gershtein (Rutgers University)  
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09:00 Hidden portals through fixed targets - Prof. Maxim Pospelov (Perimeter Institute, University of Victoria)  
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09:30 Searching for a U-boson with a positron beam and JLab prospects - Dr Bogdan Wojtsekhowski (Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility)  
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10:00 Lepton Jets - Dr Itay Yavin (New York University)  
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10:25 --- Coffee Break ---
10:40
Working Group: Fixed Target Experiments (until 12:30) (ROB A/B)
10:40
Working Group: High-Energy Colliders (until 12:30) (Green Room)
10:40
Working Group: e+e- Colliders (until 12:30) (ROB C/D)
09:00 Chameleonic Forces - Prof. Ann Nelson (University of Washington)  
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09:30 ADMX: Searching for Dark Matter Axions and other Light Hidden Particles - Dr Gray Rybka (University of Washington)  
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10:00 --- Coffee Break ---
10:15 Searches on the hidden sector with KLOE at DAFNE - Prof. Fabio Bossi (INFN Frascati)  
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10:45 Dark matter research at the MESA facility - Dr Kurt Aulenbacher (Institut für Kernphysik der Universität Mainz)  
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11:15
Working Group: Fixed Target Experiments (until 12:30)
11:15
Working Group: e+e- Colliders (until 12:30) (ROB Pine/Madrone)
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12:05 --- Lunch ---
13:05 Introduction to Electron Fixed-Target Experiments - Dr Natalia Toro (Stanford University)  
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13:20 New Fixed-Target Experiment for a Heavy Photon Search - Dr Takashi Maruyama (SLAC)  
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13:50 Introduction to Working Groups - Dr Philip Schuster (on behalf of organizers)  
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14:05
Working Group: Fixed Target Experiments (until 15:30)
14:05 Jefferson Lab:Overview, Prospects, and First Attempts at Data Mining for A’ search - Peter Bosted  
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14:25 Facilities and Prospects at Mainz: MAMI and MESA - Dr Kurt Aulenbacher (Institut für Kernphysik der Universität Mainz)  
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14:45 Fixed Target Experiments at XFEL - Javier Redondo (DESY)  
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14:05
Working Group: High-Energy Colliders (until 15:30) (ROB Pine/Madrone)
14:05 Defining and Simulating Lepton Jets - Mr Joshua Ruderman (Princeton University)  
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14:05
Working Group: e+e- Colliders (until 15:30) (Kavli Auditorium)
15:30 --- Coffee Break ---
15:50 Searches for the X(214) in ISR and B Decay - Prof. Youngjoon Kwon (Yonsei University)  
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16:20 Search Strategies for Multilepton Jets at the Tevatron - Prof. Chris Hays (Oxford University)  
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16:50 --- Break ---
17:05 Probing a Secluded U(1) at B-factories - Dr Brian Batell (Perimeter Institute)  
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17:30 Searches for Exotics in Upsilon Decays at BaBar - Dr Hojeong Kim (SLAC)  
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19:00 --- dinner ---
12:30 --- Lunch ---
13:30 Confined Dark Sectors - Prof. Jay Wacker (SLAC)  
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13:50 Search for a Narrow Resonance in e+e- to Four Leptons at Babar - Dr Mathew Graham (SLAC)  
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14:20 U Boson Search at the JLab Free Electron Laser - Jesse Thaler and Peter Fisher (Berkeley, MIT)  
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14:50 --- Coffee Break ---
15:10 Light hidden U(1)s in LARGE volume string compactifications - Prof. Andreas Ringwald (DESY)  
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15:40 Searches for Axion-like Particles and Paraphotons with JLAB FEL - Dr Andrei Afanasev (Hampton U/Jefferson Lab)  
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16:10 Supersymmetric Hidden Sectors at a GeV - Dr David Poland (Harvard University)  
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16:40 --- break ---
16:50 Probing a Secluded U(1) at BES - Prof. Hai-Bo Li (Institute of High Energy Physics)  
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17:20
WG SUMMARY AND DISCUSSION: Tevatron (until 18:00)
17:20 Summary Talk - Dr Andy Haas (SLAC)  
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12:30 --- Lunch ---
13:20 Prospects for dark sector particle search with Upsilon(nS) data - Mr Jamal Rorie (University of Hawaii at Manoa)  
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13:50 Status and Prospects of the BES III experiment - Prof. Yangheng Zheng (GUCAS)  
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14:20 --- Coffee Break ---
14:40 What can the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope tell us about dark forces? - Prof. Douglas Finkbeiner (Harvard University)  
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15:10
WG SUMMARY AND DISCUSSION: e+e- colliders and fixed-target experiments (until 17:00)
15:15 Fixed-Target WG Summary - Prof. James Bjorken (SLAC (Emeritus)) John Jaros  
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15:30 e+e- Collider WG Summary - Prof. Adam Ritz (University of Victoria)  
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