The Future of Searches for Invisible Particles

14 Dec 2017, 08:55 → 15 Dec 2017, 16:00 Europe/Zurich

Other Institutes

Michael Kramer (Rheinisch Westfaelische Tech. Hoch. (DE)), Joachim Kopp (Johannes-Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz (DE)), Felix Kahlhoefer (DESY)

The workshop centers on dark matter searches at the LHC, but will also discuss other types of "invisible" particles, in particular long-lived particles, as well as non-LHC experiments (low-energy colliders, fixed-target experiments, complementary dark matter searches).

The workshop is organised and funded by the "New Physics at the LHC" network of the German Research Foundation DFG.

Speakers include:

• Martin Bauer (University of Heidelberg)
• Moritz Breitbach (University of Mainz)
• Rouven Essig (Stony Brook University)
• Stefania Gori (University of Cincinnati) 
• Admir Greljo (University of Mainz) 
• Ulrich Haisch (Oxford University)
• Jan Heisig (RWTH Aachen University)
• JoAnne Hewett (SLAC)
• Felix Kling (University of Heidelberg / UC Irvine)
• Manuel Krauss (University of Bonn)
• Víctor Martín Lozano (University of Bonn)
• Matthew McCullough (CERN)
• Annika Reinert (University of Bonn)
• Thomas G. Rizzo (SLAC)
• Jessie Shelton (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
• Patrick Stöcker (RWTH Aachen University)
• Jennie Thompson (University of Heidelberg)
• Alexander Voigt (RWTH Aachen University) 

Thursday, 14 December

09:00 → 09:15 Welcome coffee

09:15 → 10:45 Session 1

09:15 Extra dimensions are dark

Speaker: Thomas Rizzo

KM-XED.pdf

10:00 Looking for the WIMP next door

Speaker: Julia (Jessie) Shelton (Rutgers University)

Jessie.pdf

10:45 → 11:15 coffee break

11:15 → 12:30 Session 2

11:15 Precise Higgs mass prediction in SUSY and non-SUSY models

Speaker: Alexander Voigt (RWTH Aachen)

talk.pdf

12:00 Simplified dark matter models with two Higgs doublets

Speaker: Uli Haisch

Uli.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 lunch break

14:00 → 15:30 Session 3

14:00 Anomalies in B-decays: Flavour physics and High-pT frontier

Speaker: Admir Greljo (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)

greljo-Aachen-2017.pdf

14:45 Dark sectors at fixed target experiments

Speaker: Stefania Gori (Perimeter Institute/Cincinnati University)

Stefania.pdf

15:30 → 16:00 coffee break

16:00 → 18:00 Session 4

16:00 FASER: ForwArd Search ExpeRiment at the LHC

Speaker: Felix Kling (University of California, Irvine)

Felix.pdf

16:20 Clockwork dark matter

Speaker: Dr Daniele Teresi (Université Libre de Bruxelles)

Daniele.pdf

16:40 Dark matter in electroweak single top production

Speaker: Jennifer Thompson (ITP Heidelberg)

Jennie.pdf

17:00 Pinning down Uncertainties in Cosmic Ray Propagation

Speaker: Annika Reinert

Annika.pdf

17:20 CMB constraints on primordial black holes

Speaker: Patrick Stöcker

Patrick.pdf

17:40 Gravitational waves and dark matter from phase transitions in the Early Universe

Speaker: Moritz Breitbach

Moritz.pdf

18:00 → 21:00 Conference dinner

Friday, 15 December

09:00 → 10:30 Session 5

09:00 Displaced Invisibles: Simplified Models and S-channel production

Speaker: Matthew Philip Mccullough (CERN)

Matthew.pdf

09:45 Dark Matter genesis beyond the WIMP paradigm: Conversion-driven freeze-out

Speaker: Jan Heisig (RWTH Aachen University)

Jan.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 coffee break

11:00 → 12:30 Session 6

11:00 Searching for ALPs in Exotic Higgs Decays

Speaker: Martin Bauer (Heidelberg University)

Martin.pdf

11:45 Higgs sectors beyond leading order: perturbativity, matching and vacuum stability

Speaker: Dr Manuel E. Krauss (Bonn University)

matching_and_perturbativity.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 lunch break

14:00 → 15:30 Session 7

14:00 Direct Detection of sub-GeV Dark Matter

Speaker: Rouven Essig (Stony Brook University)

Rouven-Essig-Aachen.final.pdf

14:45 Gravity Mediated Dark Matter Annihilation

Speaker: JoAnne Hewett (SLAC)