DARK MATTER: from theory to detection

Europe/Zurich
Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematics and Physics

Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematics and Physics

Boltzmanngasse 9 1090 Wien Austria
Josef Pradler (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))
Description

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An online ISAPP school on theories and laboratory tests of dark matter

This astroparticle physics graduate school will cover important and timely topics that are connected to the Dark Matter problem, taught by internationally renowned experts. A primary focus of the school will be on the direct detection of dark matter (DM) in rare-event searches. The theoretical background, observational motivation, and experimental avenues to observe dark matter signatures in the laboratory will be covered. Lectures will be complemented with hands-on sessions. The duration of the school is 8 days.

ISAPP is a consortium of over 30 European Institutions that organize Doctorate Schools on Astroparticle Physics for almost 20 years, https://www.isapp-schools.org. The Vienna Institute of High Energy Physics of the Austrian Academy of Sciences is a member of the consortium. The school was originally planned to be hosted and financially supported by the Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematics and Physics (ESI) which is a beautiful workshop space on Boltzmanngasse in the Vienna 9th district. The on-site event had to be canceled because of the COVID pandemic. All lectures will be online.

Key topics of the school include: 

  • New observational and astrophysical insights into DM: what is known about DM observationally and what are the expected advances in the coming years?

  • Light dark sectors: new particles and interactions at or below the GeV-scale have rich implications for cosmology and astrophysics and in experiment such as at high-intensity beams. 

  • Direct detection of dark matter:  an extensive overview over the theoretical description of low-energy DM scattering on various targets will be given, including novel search strategies such as e.g. utilizing acoustic and optical phonons or the Migdal effect.

  • Table-top DM searches:  ultralight bosonic DM fields such as axions or dark photons with masses well below the eV-scale require dedicated detection schemes; low-energy tests of the Standard Model provide additional insights. 

  • Statistics for rare-event searches: introduction to statistical inference related to low-number statistics and difficult-to-model signal and backgrounds will be given. Limit-setting procedures as well as hypothesis testing for discoveries will be introduced.

Invited Lecturers:

  • Sara Algeri (Minnesota)
  • Ranny Budnik (Weizmann)
  • Dmitry Budker (Mainz / Berkeley)
  • Jules Gascon (Lyon)
  • Vera Gluscevic (USC Los Angeles)
  • Simon Knapen (CERN)
  • Maxim Pospelov (Minnesota)
  • Andreas Ringwald (DESY)
  • Achim Schwenk (Darmstadt)
  • Tien-Tien Yu (Oregon)

Student Registration:

Registration is now closed; there is no registration fee. 

Online Info:  

UPDATE: this event will be online only. If you have registered, you will be contacted about modalities. 

Local Organizing Committee:

Institute of High Energy Physics:

University of Vienna:

Comenius University of Bratislava:

     
Josef Pradler (chair)
Florian Reindl
Jochen Schieck
Anastasia Sokolenko
Markus Arndt
Massimiliano Procura
 
Armin Shayeghi

Fedor Šimkovic

 

 

 


 

Kindly supported by:

 

 
 

 

Participants
  • ABD AL KARIM HAJ ISMAIL
  • ADAM SMETANA
  • Agustin Lantero Barreda
  • Alberto Carella
  • Alberto Ressa
  • Alessio Rettaroli
  • Alexander Fuss
  • Alexis Boudon
  • Aliaksei Kachanovich
  • Allan Sung
  • Aman Awasthi
  • Anna Bertolini
  • Antoine Chauvin
  • Aridai Bordón
  • Ariel Zuñiga Reyes
  • Arvind Kumar Mishra
  • Azrul POHAN
  • Chen Cheng
  • Clara Lavinia Del Pio
  • Claudio Lombardo
  • Daniel Bartolot
  • Daniel Schmiedmayer
  • David José Gaspar Marques
  • Dipankar Pradhan
  • Eduard Ursov
  • Egor Frolov
  • Einar Urdshals
  • Ekaterina Shlepkina
  • Elizabeth Sarah Long
  • Emanuela Celi
  • Emanuele Angelino
  • Fatima Ezzahra Haira
  • Felix Wagner
  • Francesca Pucci
  • Gabriele Martelli
  • Gaurav Tomar
  • Georgios Papadopoulos
  • Giuseppe Lucente
  • Grigory Dolganov
  • Holger Kluck
  • Iftikhar Ahmad
  • Irene Ciraldo
  • Javier Silva
  • Jeffrey Lazar
  • Jens Burkhart
  • Johannes Diehl
  • Jui-Lin Kuo
  • Julia Müller
  • Julian Bollig
  • Krzysztof Mekala
  • Leonie Einfalt
  • Lin Si
  • Ludovico Luzzi
  • Maike Doerenkamp
  • Mangesh Sonawane
  • Mar Ciscar
  • Marco Bortolami
  • Marco Nikolic
  • Margarita Kaznacheeva
  • Mariia Petropavlova
  • Mario D'Andrea
  • Matthias Frenzl
  • Melih Kara
  • Mengmeng Wu
  • Michał Iglicki
  • Michelangelo Traina
  • Miroslav Macko
  • Miroslav Macko
  • Moritz Kellermann
  • Mukund R Bharadwaj
  • Nadiia Diachenko
  • Nasir Shaheed
  • Neil McFadden
  • Nicolo' Cibrario
  • Pablo Matorras Cuevas
  • Paules Zakhary
  • Paulina Knees
  • Pawel Kozow
  • Peter Matak
  • Polina Petriakova
  • Prim Patrawan Pasuwan
  • PURUSOTTAM GHOSH
  • Rachana Yajur
  • Ricardo Peres
  • Rishav Roshan
  • RITUPARNA MAJI
  • Ruchika Ruchika
  • Saboura Zamani
  • Saeed Ullah Khan
  • Saeid Foroughi-Abari
  • Samuele Torelli
  • SANDEEP KUMAR DUBEY
  • Sara Motalebi
  • Sarah Cader
  • Shouvik Roy Choudhury
  • Shubham Gupta
  • Sid El Moctar Ahmed Maouloud
  • Sonali Verma
  • Subhojit Roy
  • Sugata Paul
  • Sukeerthi Dharani
  • Sundar Dhara
  • Thomas Kraetzschmar
  • Ting Cheng
  • Tobias Ortmann
  • Zafri Ahmed Borboruah
  • Zhenya Cheipesh
  • Zhicheng Qian
  • 陈 宏昆