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

from Monday, 8 April 2019 (09:00) to Friday, 12 April 2019 (22:00)
Centro de Ciencias de Benasque Pedro Pascual

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
8 Apr 2019
9 Apr 2019
10 Apr 2019
11 Apr 2019
12 Apr 2019
AM
09:00 --- Registration ---
09:30 --- Coffee Break ---
10:00
Welcome and Introduction (until 10:15) ()
10:00 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
Overview Talks (until 13:00) ()
10:15 Overview of axion experiments' landscape - Igor Garcia Irastorza (Universidad de Zaragoza (ES))   ()
11:15 Light scalars at the LHC - Verena Ingrid Martinez Outschoorn (University of Massachusetts (US))   ()
12:15 Amplitudes’ positivity, weak gravity conjecture and modified gravity - Javier Serra Mari (CERN)   ()
09:30
Overview Talks (until 10:30) ()
09:30 QCD axion updates - Javier Redondo (Universidad de Zaragoza)   ()
10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00
Overview Talks (until 13:00) ()
11:00 Experimental overview of physics beyond colliders - Gaia Lanfranchi (INFN e Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (IT))   ()
12:00 Light dilaton - Alex Pomarol (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona & IFAE)   ()
09:30
Overview Talks (until 10:30) ()
09:30 ALP-photon-dark photon oscillations and their cosmological or astrophysical implications - Kiwoon Choi (KAIST)   ()
10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00
Overview Talks (until 12:00) ()
11:00 Where the wild things are - Nemanja Kaloper (UC Davis)   ()
09:30
Overview Talks (until 10:30) ()
09:30 Dynamical emergence of a small cosmological constant - Tomer Volansky (Tel Aviv University (IL))   ()
10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00
Overview Talks (until 13:00) ()
11:00 Ultra-light axions, weak gravity, and Euclidean wormholes - Arthur Hebecker (Heidelberg University)   ()
12:00 Relaxion stars and their detection via atomic physics - Hyungjin Kim   ()
09:30
Free time (until 10:30) ()
10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00
Free time (until 13:00) ()
PM
13:00 --- Lunch Break ---
15:00
Informal Discussions (until 16:30) ()
16:30 --- Coffee Break ---
17:00
Contributed Talks (until 18:30) ()
17:00 The axion - dark photon - 21cm connection - Josef Pradler (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))   ()
17:30 Axion properties in GUTs - Carlos Tamarit (Technische Universität München)   ()
18:00 Axions from strings - Edward Hardy (University of Liverpool)   ()
19:00 --- Welcome Reception ---
13:00
Lunch Break (until 15:00) ()
15:00
Informal Discussions (until 16:30) ()
16:30 --- Coffee Break ---
17:00
Contributed Talks (until 18:30) ()
17:00 Non-standard EW phase transition & new light states - Oleksii Matsedonskyi (INFN Padua/Padua University)   ()
17:30 Higgs-mediated bound states in dark matter models - Julia Harz (DESY Hamburg)   ()
18:00 Dark energy detection with laboratory experiments - Clare Burrage (University of Nottingham)   ()
12:00
Contributed Talks (until 13:00) ()
12:00 Gauge field and fermion production via Chern-Simons coupling - Kyohei Mukaida (Kavli IPMU)   ()
13:00
Lunch Break (until 15:00) ()
15:00
Informal Discussions (until 16:30) ()
16:30 --- Coffee Break ---
17:00
Contributed Talks (until 18:45) ()
17:00 Relaxion updates - Enrico Morgante (Universite de Geneve (CH))   ()
17:30 Baryogenesis during relaxation - Rick S. Gupta (IPPP - Durham)   ()
18:00 Implication of supercooling on DM in composite Higgs - Yann Gouttenoire (DESY)   ()
18:30 Light scalar dark matter coupled to the trace of the energy-momentum tensor - Anna Tokareva (INR RAS)   ()
13:00
Lunch Break (until 15:00) ()
15:00
Informal Discussions (until 16:30) ()
16:30 --- Coffee Break ---
17:00
Informal Discussions (until 18:00) ()
18:00
Contributed Talks (until 19:15) ()
18:00 Hot axions and the H0 tension - Alessio Notari   ()
18:30 Probing muonic forces and dark matter at kaon factories - Diego Redigolo (Weizmann Inst. & Tel Aviv University)   ()
19:00 A Fresh Look at the Calculation of Tunneling Actions - Jose Ramon Espinosa Sedano (ICREA / IFAE Barcelona (ES))   ()
13:00
Lunch Break (until 15:00) ()
15:00
Informal Discussions (until 16:30) ()
16:30
Coffee Break (until 17:00) ()
17:00
Contributed Talks (until 18:30) ()
17:00 Detecting axion-like DM with linearly polarized pulsar light - Tao Liu (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)   ()
17:30 Scalar dark matter: a non-minimal perspective - Gonzalo Alonso Alvarez (Universidad de Zaragoza (ES))   ()
18:00 New LHC searches for resonances of 1 to 100 GeV - Filippo Sala   ()
19:00 --- Farewell Drink ---