WONDER - Workshop On Next Dark Matter Experimental Researches at LNGS

22 Mar 2010, 08:30 → 23 Mar 2010, 20:00 Europe/Rome

"E. Fermi" auditorium (INFN - Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso)

We are organizing from March 22 to 23, 2010 at the INFN Gran Sasso Laboratory a workshop aiming to outline the Laboratory roadmap for dark matter physics in the next decade. The workshop will cover the actual status, developments, perspectives and options in direct search of dark matter and will represent a first step towards the definition of future experiments at the Gran Sasso Laboratory.

Monday 22 March ¶

08:30 → 09:15 Registration¶

09:15 → 09:30 Welcome¶

09:30 → 13:30 First Session: a general experimental and theoretical framework¶

09:30 Dark Matter: the experimental quest in the laboratory¶

Speaker: Carlo Rubbia

10:20 LHC impact on Dark Matter searches¶

Speaker: David G. CERDENO (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid)

11:05 Coffee break

11:40 Phenomenological review on Dark Matter (interaction channels against detection techniques)¶

Speaker: Nicolao Fornengo (INFN Torino)

12:30 Review on the impact of indirect Dark Matter searches on direct searches¶

Speaker: Piero Ullio (SISSA)

11:10 → 11:40 Coffee break

13:30 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 18:00 Second Session: review of running Dark Matter experiments at LNGS and their future perspectives¶

14:30 CRESST¶

Speaker: Wolfgang Seidel

15:20 DAMA / LIBRA¶

Speaker: Pierluigi Belli (INFN Roma Tor Vergata)

16:10 Coffee break

16:30 The Xenon Dark Matter Search¶

Speaker: Elena Aprile (Columbia University)

17:20 WArP¶

Speaker: Claudio Montanari (Dipartimento di Fisica Nucleare e Teorica)

16:10 → 16:30 Coffee break

18:10 → 19:30 Third Session: review of Dark Matter search related backgrounds¶

18:10 Impact of muon-induced backgrounds and shielding¶

Speaker: Vitaly Kudryavtsev (University of Sheffield)

18:50 Use of water and scintillator shielding at Gran Sasso¶

Speaker: Frank Calaprice (Princeton University)

20:30 → 23:00 Social dinner

Tuesday 23 March ¶

09:00 → 13:30 Fourth Session: review on the status and perspectives of Dark Matter searches carried out around the world and review of new proposals at LNGS¶

09:00 Review on Dark Matter activities and new proposal in underground laboratories around the world¶

Speaker: Prof. Nigel Smith (CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

09:50 Review on future directional detectors¶

Speaker: Neil Spooner (University of Sheffield)

10:40 XMASS at Kamioka: Large Scale Cryogenic detector in the underground laboratory¶

Speaker: Masaki YAMASHITA (Kamioka Observatory, ICRR, University of Tokyo)

11:30 Coffee break

11:50 Dark Side proposal at LNGS¶

Speaker: Cristiano Galbiati (Princeton University)

12:30 DARWIN: Dark Matter WIMP searches with Noble Liquids¶

Speaker: Laura Baudis (University of Zurich)

11:30 → 11:50 Coffee break

13:30 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 18:30 Fifth Session: detailed discussion on future possible detection techniques at LNGS and their discovery capability: Final Discussion¶

14:30 Sensitivity, Performance Stability and Intrinsic Background in Bolometric detectors for Dark Matter searches¶

Speaker: Oliviero Cremonesi (INFN)

15:20 Sensitivity, Performance Stability and Intrinsic Background in Cryogenic Liquids detectors in Dark Matter searches¶

Speaker: T. J. SUMNER (Imperial College, London)

16:10 Sensitivity, Performance Stability and Intrinsic Background in Scintillator detectors in Dark Matter searches¶

Speaker: Antonella Incicchitti (INFN Roma 2)

17:00 Coffee break

17:20 Concluding remarks¶

Speaker: Roberto Petronzio (Unknown)

18:00 Final discussion¶

17:00 → 17:20 Coffee break