Name: Dark Matter @ LHC 2020 (DM@LHC)
Start: 2020-06-02T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2020-06-05T18:00:00+02:00
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Dark Matter @ LHC 2020 (DM@LHC)

from Tuesday 2 June 2020 (14:00) to Friday 5 June 2020 (18:00)

Monday 1 June 2020
Tuesday 2 June 2020
14:00 Session 1: Introduction + simplified models
Session 1: Introduction + simplified models
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 Welcome and Introduction - Janna Katharina Behr (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))

14:20 Dark Matter Working Group report (15'+5') - Oleg Brandt (University of Cambridge (GB))

14:40 Simplified models: s-channel (15'+5') - Chad Wells Freer (Northeastern University (US))

15:00 A universal framework for t-channel dark matter models (15'+5') - Chiara Arina (CP3 UCLouvain)

15:20 Interference effects in dilepton resonance searches for Z' bosons and dark matter mediators (8'+2') - Stefan Schulte (Max Planck Institute for Physics (Munich))
15:30 Virtual coffee break + Q&A with speakers
Virtual coffee break + Q&A with speakers
15:30 - 16:00
16:00 Session 2: Dark matter and Higgs
Session 2: Dark matter and Higgs
16:00 - 17:30
Contributions

16:00 Invisible Higgs decays (15'+5') - Vukasin Milosevic (Imperial College (GB))

16:20 The Inert Doublet Model at current and future colliders (15' + 5') - Tania Natalie Robens (Rudjer Boskovic Institute (HR))

16:40 A less simplified model: 2HDM+pseudoscalar (15'+5') - Kristian Bjoerke (University of Oslo (NO))

17:00 Theory overview (25'+5') - Hitoshi Murayama (University of California Berkeley (US))
17:30 Virtual coffee break + Q&A with speakers
Virtual coffee break + Q&A with speakers
17:30 - 18:00
Wednesday 3 June 2020
14:00 Session 3: Dark sectors and flavour
Session 3: Dark sectors and flavour
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 LHCb dark sector searches (15'+5') - Martino Borsato (Ruprecht Karls Universitaet Heidelberg (DE))

14:20 DM-flavour connection (15'+5') - Giorgio Arcadi

14:40 Lepton Flavour Universality: LHCb results and prospects (15'+5') - Guy Henri Maurice Wormser (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))

15:00 Strongly interacting dark sectors (15'+5') - Giovanni Grilli di Cortona (University of Sao Paulo)

15:20 Baryogenesis and Dark Matter from B Mesons (8'+2') - Miguel Escudero (King's College London)
15:30 Virtual coffee break + Q&A with speakers
Virtual coffee break + Q&A with speakers
15:30 - 16:00
16:00 Session 4: New light particles
Session 4: New light particles
16:00 - 17:30
Contributions

16:00 Axion-like particles (15'+5') - Martin Bauer (Heidelberg University)

16:20 Dark photons and axion-like particles at the LHC (15'+5') - Rafael Coelho Lopes De Sa (University of Massachusetts (US))

16:40 Long-lived Particle Experiments at the LHC: FASER, MATHUSLA, and others (15'+5') - Samuel Ross Meehan (CERN)

17:00 Search for millicharged particles in proton-proton collisions at √s=13 TeV with the milliQan Demonstrator (8' + 2') - Ryan Schmitz (UCSB)

17:10 Intensity frontier (15'+5') - Felix Kling (SLAC)
17:30 Virtual coffee break + Q&A with speakers
Virtual coffee break + Q&A with speakers
17:30 - 18:00
Thursday 4 June 2020
14:00 Session 5: Cross-experimental topics
Session 5: Cross-experimental topics
14:00 - 15:32
Contributions

14:00 Dark Matter Capture in Neutron Stars (15'+5') - Nicole Bell (University of Melbourne)

14:20 Gravitational waves and dark matter (15'+5') - Toby Opferkuch (CERN)

14:40 Robust cosmological constraints on axion-like particles (8'+2') - Paul Frederik Depta (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY))

14:50 SUSY dark matter searches (15'+5') - Sicheng Wang (Univ. of California Santa Barbara (US))

15:10 Global fits of supersymmetry - can we still have light neutralino DM? (15'+5') - Are Raklev (University of Oslo (NO))

15:30 Conference picture!
15:32 Virtual coffee break + Q&A with speakers
Virtual coffee break + Q&A with speakers
15:32 - 16:00
16:00 Session 6: Analysis tools
Session 6: Analysis tools
16:00 - 17:30
Contributions

16:00 Performance improvements at ATLAS (15'+5') - Jeanette Miriam Lorenz (Ludwig Maximilians Universitat (DE))

16:20 Object performance improvements at CMS (15'+5') - Laurent Thomas (Universite Libre de Bruxelles (BE)) Laurent Thomas (Universite Libre de Bruxelles (BE))

16:40 ML approaches in phenomenology (15'+5') - Sascha Caron (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))

17:00 ML for Jet Tagging and Event Classification on ATLAS and CMS (15'+5') - Michael Aaron Kagan (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

17:20 A novel density estimator and its use for LHC signal detection (8'+2') - Alessandro Morandini (SISSA)
17:30 Virtual coffee break + Q&A with speakers
Virtual coffee break + Q&A with speakers
17:30 - 18:00
Friday 5 June 2020
14:00 Session 7: Long-lived particles + lightning talks
Session 7: Long-lived particles + lightning talks
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 Dark matter and long-lived particles at the LHC (15'+5') - Andreas Goudelis (LPTHE - Paris)

14:20 Long-lived particle searches in ATLAS and CMS (15'+5') - Masahiro Morinaga (Waseda University (JP))

14:40 Exploring jet substructure in semi-visible jets (8'+2') - Sukanya Sinha (University of Witwatersrand)

14:50 Casting a GraphNet to catch dark showers (8'+2') - Elias Bernreuther (RWTH Aachen University)

15:00 Dark photons from hadronic showers (8'+2') - Luc Jean Marie Darmé (INFN - National Institute for Nuclear Physics)

15:10 Probing the real triplet scalar dark matter at colliders (8'+2') - Yong Du (University of Massachusetts-Amherst)
15:30 Virtual coffee break + Q&A with speakers
Virtual coffee break + Q&A with speakers
15:30 - 16:00
16:00 Session 8: Future strategies
Session 8: Future strategies
16:00 - 17:30
Contributions

16:00 Closing remarks - Felix Kahlhoefer (RWTH Aachen)

16:05 DM and feebly-interacting particles: ideas for cross-experimental collaborations (15'+5') - Gaia Lanfranchi (INFN e Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (IT))

16:25 Reinterpretation tools for dark matter searches (20'+5') - Jonathan Butterworth (UCL)

16:50 Panel discussion - Caterina Doglioni (Lund University (SE)) Suchita Kulkarni (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))