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

from Monday, April 8, 2019 (9:00 AM) to Friday, April 12, 2019 (10:00 PM)
Centro de Ciencias de Benasque Pedro Pascual

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Apr 8, 2019
Apr 9, 2019
Apr 10, 2019
Apr 11, 2019
Apr 12, 2019
AM
9:00 AM --- Registration ---
9:30 AM --- Coffee Break ---
10:00 AM
Welcome and Introduction (until 10:15 AM)
10:00 AM Welcome and Introduction - Geraldine Servant (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE)) Joerg Jaeckel (ITP Heidelberg) Michael Spannowsky (University of Durham (GB)) Maxim Pospelov Aurelio Juste Rozas (ICREA and IFAE (ES))  
10:15 AM
Overview Talks (until 1:00 PM)
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)  
9:30 AM
Overview Talks (until 10:30 AM)
9:30 AM QCD axion updates - Javier Redondo (Universidad de Zaragoza)  
10:30 AM --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 AM
Overview Talks (until 1:00 PM)
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)  
9:30 AM
Overview Talks (until 10:30 AM)
9:30 AM ALP-photon-dark photon oscillations and their cosmological or astrophysical implications - Kiwoon Choi (KAIST)  
10:30 AM --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 AM
Overview Talks (until 12:00 PM)
11:00 AM Where the wild things are - Nemanja Kaloper (UC Davis)  
9:30 AM
Overview Talks (until 10:30 AM)
9:30 AM Dynamical emergence of a small cosmological constant - Tomer Volansky (Tel Aviv University (IL))  
10:30 AM --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 AM
Overview Talks (until 1:00 PM)
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  
9:30 AM
Free time (until 10:30 AM)
10:30 AM --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 AM
Free time (until 1:00 PM)
PM
1:00 PM --- Lunch Break ---
3:00 PM
Informal Discussions (until 4:30 PM)
4:30 PM --- Coffee Break ---
5:00 PM
Contributed Talks (until 6:30 PM)
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 ---
1:00 PM
Lunch Break (until 3:00 PM)
3:00 PM
Informal Discussions (until 4:30 PM)
4:30 PM --- Coffee Break ---
5:00 PM
Contributed Talks (until 6:30 PM)
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)  
12:00 PM
Contributed Talks (until 1:00 PM)
12:00 PM Gauge field and fermion production via Chern-Simons coupling - Kyohei Mukaida (Kavli IPMU)  
1:00 PM
Lunch Break (until 3:00 PM)
3:00 PM
Informal Discussions (until 4:30 PM)
4:30 PM --- Coffee Break ---
5:00 PM
Contributed Talks (until 6:45 PM)
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)  
1:00 PM
Lunch Break (until 3:00 PM)
3:00 PM
Informal Discussions (until 4:30 PM)
4:30 PM --- Coffee Break ---
5:00 PM
Informal Discussions (until 6:00 PM)
6:00 PM
Contributed Talks (until 7:15 PM)
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))  
1:00 PM
Lunch Break (until 3:00 PM)
3:00 PM
Informal Discussions (until 4:30 PM)
4:30 PM
Coffee Break (until 5:00 PM)
5:00 PM
Contributed Talks (until 6:30 PM)
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 ---