Name: Light scalars: origin, cosmology, astrophysics, and experimental probes
Start: 2019-04-08T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2019-04-12T22:00:00+02:00
Location: Centro de Ciencias de Benasque Pedro Pascual

Light scalars: origin, cosmology, astrophysics, and experimental probes

from Monday, April 8, 2019 (9:00 AM) to Friday, April 12, 2019 (10:00 PM)

Monday, April 8, 2019

9:00 AM Registration
Registration
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM

9:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM
10:00 AM Welcome and Introduction
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Contributions

10:00 AM Welcome and Introduction - Aurelio Juste Rozas (ICREA and IFAE (ES)) Geraldine Servant (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE)) Joerg Jaeckel (ITP Heidelberg) Maxim Pospelov Michael Spannowsky (University of Durham (GB))
10:15 AM Overview Talks
10:15 AM - 1:00 PM
Contributions

10:15 AM Overview of axion experiments' landscape - Igor Garcia Irastorza (Universidad de Zaragoza (ES))

11:15 AM Light scalars at the LHC - Verena Ingrid Martinez Outschoorn (University of Massachusetts (US))

12:15 PM Amplitudes’ positivity, weak gravity conjecture and modified gravity - Javier Serra Mari (CERN)
1:00 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

3:00 PM Informal Discussions

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

4:30 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM
5:00 PM Contributed Talks
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Contributions

5:00 PM The axion - dark photon - 21cm connection - Josef Pradler (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))

5:30 PM Axion properties in GUTs - Carlos Tamarit (Technische Universität München)

6:00 PM Axions from strings - Edward Hardy (University of Liverpool)
7:00 PM Welcome Reception
Welcome Reception
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Tuesday, April 9, 2019
9:30 AM Overview Talks
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

9:30 AM QCD axion updates - Javier Redondo (Universidad de Zaragoza)
10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM Overview Talks
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Contributions

11:00 AM Experimental overview of physics beyond colliders - Gaia Lanfranchi (INFN e Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (IT))

12:00 PM Light dilaton - Alex Pomarol (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona & IFAE)
1:00 PM Lunch Break

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

3:00 PM Informal Discussions

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

4:30 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM
5:00 PM Contributed Talks
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Contributions

5:00 PM Non-standard EW phase transition & new light states - Oleksii Matsedonskyi (INFN Padua/Padua University)

5:30 PM Higgs-mediated bound states in dark matter models - Julia Harz (DESY Hamburg)

6:00 PM Dark energy detection with laboratory experiments - Clare Burrage (University of Nottingham)
Wednesday, April 10, 2019
9:30 AM Overview Talks
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

9:30 AM ALP-photon-dark photon oscillations and their cosmological or astrophysical implications - Kiwoon Choi (KAIST)
10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM Overview Talks
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Contributions

11:00 AM Where the wild things are - Nemanja Kaloper (UC Davis)
12:00 PM Contributed Talks
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Contributions

12:00 PM Gauge field and fermion production via Chern-Simons coupling - Kyohei Mukaida (Kavli IPMU)
1:00 PM Lunch Break

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

3:00 PM Informal Discussions

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

4:30 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM
5:00 PM Contributed Talks
5:00 PM - 6:45 PM
Contributions

5:00 PM Relaxion updates - Enrico Morgante (Universite de Geneve (CH))

5:30 PM Baryogenesis during relaxation - Rick S. Gupta (IPPP - Durham)

6:00 PM Implication of supercooling on DM in composite Higgs - Yann Gouttenoire (DESY)

6:30 PM Light scalar dark matter coupled to the trace of the energy-momentum tensor - Anna Tokareva (INR RAS)
Thursday, April 11, 2019
9:30 AM Overview Talks
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

9:30 AM Dynamical emergence of a small cosmological constant - Tomer Volansky (Tel Aviv University (IL))
10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM Overview Talks
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Contributions

11:00 AM Ultra-light axions, weak gravity, and Euclidean wormholes - Arthur Hebecker (Heidelberg University)

12:00 PM Relaxion stars and their detection via atomic physics - Hyungjin Kim
1:00 PM Lunch Break

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

3:00 PM Informal Discussions

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

4:30 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM

5:00 PM Informal Discussions

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
6:00 PM Contributed Talks
6:00 PM - 7:15 PM
Contributions

6:00 PM Hot axions and the H0 tension - Alessio Notari

6:30 PM Probing muonic forces and dark matter at kaon factories - Diego Redigolo (Weizmann Inst. & Tel Aviv University)

7:00 PM A Fresh Look at the Calculation of Tunneling Actions - Jose Ramon Espinosa Sedano (ICREA / IFAE Barcelona (ES))
Friday, April 12, 2019

9:30 AM Free time

9:30 AM - 10:30 AM

10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

11:00 AM Free time

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

1:00 PM Lunch Break

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

3:00 PM Informal Discussions

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

4:30 PM Coffee Break

4:30 PM - 5:00 PM
5:00 PM Contributed Talks
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Contributions

5:00 PM Detecting axion-like DM with linearly polarized pulsar light - Tao Liu (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

5:30 PM Scalar dark matter: a non-minimal perspective - Gonzalo Alonso Alvarez (Universidad de Zaragoza (ES))

6:00 PM New LHC searches for resonances of 1 to 100 GeV - Filippo Sala
7:00 PM Farewell Drink
Farewell Drink
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM