The Future of Searches for Invisible Particles

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RWTH Aachen University, SuperC, Templergraben 57. 52056 Aachen, Germany
Michael Kramer (Rheinisch Westfaelische Tech. Hoch. (DE)), Joachim Kopp (Johannes-Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz (DE)), Felix Kahlhoefer (DESY)
Description

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) 
Participants
  • Thursday 14 December
    • 09:00
      Welcome coffee
    • Session 1
      • 1
        Extra dimensions are dark
        Speaker: Thomas Rizzo
      • 2
        Looking for the WIMP next door
        Speaker: Julia (Jessie) Shelton (Rutgers University)
    • 10:45
      coffee break
    • Session 2
      • 3
        Precise Higgs mass prediction in SUSY and non-SUSY models
        Speaker: Alexander Voigt (RWTH Aachen)
      • 4
        Simplified dark matter models with two Higgs doublets
        Speaker: Uli Haisch
    • 12:30
      lunch break
    • Session 3
      • 5
        Anomalies in B-decays: Flavour physics and High-pT frontier
        Speaker: Admir Greljo (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)
      • 6
        Dark sectors at fixed target experiments
        Speaker: Stefania Gori (Perimeter Institute/Cincinnati University)
    • 15:30
      coffee break
    • Session 4
      • 7
        FASER: ForwArd Search ExpeRiment at the LHC
        Speaker: Felix Kling (University of California, Irvine)
      • 8
        Clockwork dark matter
        Speaker: Dr Daniele Teresi (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
      • 9
        Dark matter in electroweak single top production
        Speaker: Jennifer Thompson (ITP Heidelberg)
      • 10
        Pinning down Uncertainties in Cosmic Ray Propagation
        Speaker: Annika Reinert
      • 11
        CMB constraints on primordial black holes
        Speaker: Patrick Stöcker
      • 12
        Gravitational waves and dark matter from phase transitions in the Early Universe
        Speaker: Moritz Breitbach
    • 18:00
      Conference dinner
  • Friday 15 December
    • Session 5
      • 13
        Displaced Invisibles: Simplified Models and S-channel production
        Speaker: Matthew Philip Mccullough (CERN)
      • 14
        Dark Matter genesis beyond the WIMP paradigm: Conversion-driven freeze-out
        Speaker: Jan Heisig (RWTH Aachen University)
    • 10:30
      coffee break
    • Session 6
      • 15
        Searching for ALPs in Exotic Higgs Decays
        Speaker: Martin Bauer (Heidelberg University)
      • 16
        Higgs sectors beyond leading order: perturbativity, matching and vacuum stability
        Speaker: Dr Manuel E. Krauss (Bonn University)
    • 12:30
      lunch break
    • Session 7
      • 17
        Direct Detection of sub-GeV Dark Matter
        Speaker: Rouven Essig (Stony Brook University)
      • 18
        Gravity Mediated Dark Matter Annihilation
        Speaker: JoAnne Hewett (SLAC)