WONDER - Workshop On Next Dark Matter Experimental Researches at LNGS

from Monday 22 March 2010 (08:30) to Tuesday 23 March 2010 (20:00)
INFN - Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso ("E. Fermi" auditorium)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
22 Mar 2010
23 Mar 2010
AM
08:30
Registration (until 09:15)
09:15
Welcome (until 09:30)
09:30
First Session: a general experimental and theoretical framework (until 13:30)
09:30 Dark Matter: the experimental quest in the laboratory - Carlo Rubbia  
10:20 LHC impact on Dark Matter searches - David G. CERDENO (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid)  
11:05 --- Coffee break ---
11:40 Phenomenological review on Dark Matter (interaction channels against detection techniques) - Nicolao Fornengo (INFN Torino)  
12:30 Review on the impact of indirect Dark Matter searches on direct searches - Piero Ullio (SISSA)  
11:10 --- Coffee break ---
09:00
Fourth Session: review on the status and perspectives of Dark Matter searches carried out around the world and review of new proposals at LNGS (until 13:30)
09:00 Review on Dark Matter activities and new proposal in underground laboratories around the world - Prof. Nigel Smith (CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)  
09:50 Review on future directional detectors - Neil Spooner (University of Sheffield)  
10:40 XMASS at Kamioka: Large Scale Cryogenic detector in the underground laboratory - Masaki YAMASHITA (Kamioka Observatory, ICRR, University of Tokyo)  
11:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:50 Dark Side proposal at LNGS - Cristiano Galbiati (Princeton University)  
12:30 DARWIN: Dark Matter WIMP searches with Noble Liquids - Laura Baudis (University of Zurich)  
11:30 --- Coffee break ---
PM
13:30 --- Lunch ---
14:30
Second Session: review of running Dark Matter experiments at LNGS and their future perspectives (until 18:00)
14:30 CRESST - Wolfgang Seidel  
15:20 DAMA / LIBRA - Pierluigi Belli (INFN Roma Tor Vergata)  
16:10 --- Coffee break ---
16:30 The Xenon Dark Matter Search - Elena Aprile (Columbia University)  
17:20 WArP - Claudio Montanari (Dipartimento di Fisica Nucleare e Teorica)  
16:10 --- Coffee break ---
18:10
Third Session: review of Dark Matter search related backgrounds (until 19:30)
18:10 Impact of muon-induced backgrounds and shielding - Vitaly Kudryavtsev (University of Sheffield)  
18:50 Use of water and scintillator shielding at Gran Sasso - Frank Calaprice (Princeton University)  
20:30 --- Social dinner ---
13:30 --- Lunch ---
14:30
Fifth Session: detailed discussion on future possible detection techniques at LNGS and their discovery capability (until 18:30)
14:30 Sensitivity, Performance Stability and Intrinsic Background in Bolometric detectors for Dark Matter searches - Oliviero Cremonesi (INFN)  
15:20 Sensitivity, Performance Stability and Intrinsic Background in Cryogenic Liquids detectors in Dark Matter searches - T. J. SUMNER (Imperial College, London)  
16:10 Sensitivity, Performance Stability and Intrinsic Background in Scintillator detectors in Dark Matter searches - Antonella Incicchitti (INFN Roma 2)  
17:00 --- Coffee break ---
17:20 Concluding remarks - Roberto Petronzio (Unknown)  
18:00 Final discussion  
17:00 --- Coffee break ---