Open Questions in Particle Physics and Cosmology

3 Apr 2017, 10:00 → 5 Apr 2017, 17:25 Europe/Berlin

Major conference room (Convention Centre by the Observatory)

Laura Covi (DESY)

Overview

The workshop is dedicated to discuss open questions at the boundary
between particle physics and cosmology in the theoretical community.


Main Topics

Dark Matter
Inflation
Axions
Beyond the Standard Model
Baryogenesis
Higgs physics

Invited speakers include

T. Bringmann
W. Buchmueller
R. Catena
T. Hambye (tbc)
J. Jaeckel
F. Kahlhoefer
S. Kraml (tbc)
V. Mukhanov
L. Roszkowski (tbc)
F. Sannino
P. Schwaller
G. Servant
M. Spannowsky
J. Zupan (tbc)


There will be a short talk session giving participants the opportunity to present their research projects. If you are interested to speak, please submit an abstract following the link on the left.


Local Organizing Committee:
Laura Covi, Michael Gustafsson, Jens Niemeyer, Steffen Schumann

Monday, 3 April

10:00 → 18:00 Cosmology

10:00 Three tier approach to Dark Matter

Speaker: Prof. Leszek Roszkowski (University of Sheffield and NCBJ)

Slides roszkowski_goettingen_3apr17.pdf

10:45 Mechanisms for Baryogenesis

Speaker: Mr Thomas Hambye (Univ. of Brussels (ULB))

Slides LeptoreviewGoettingen1704.pdf

11:30 Coffee Break

12:00 Singularities in Cosmology

Speaker: Prof. Viatcheslav Mukhanov (LMU - Munich)

Slides Mukhanovsingularities.pdf

12:45 Lunch Break

14:30 The serendipity of Electroweak Baryogenesis

Speaker: Dr Geraldine Servant (CERN)

Slides Goettingen2017_SERVANT.pdf

15:15 Axions

Speaker: Joerg Jaeckel (ITP Heidelberg)

Slides Goettingen-JJ.pptx

16:00 Coffee Break

16:30 Black Holes and axions stars

Speaker: Dr Katy Clough (Goettingen)

17:00 Time-dependent features in the primordial spectrum

Speaker: Mr Simone Dresti (Georg-August University Göttingen)

Slides Simone Dresti: Time-dependent features in the primordial spectrum

17:30 New Constraints on the 3-3-1 Model with right-handed neutrinos

Speaker: Mr Ernany Rossi Schmitz (University of Bonn)

Slides 26 slides

18:00 → 19:00 Visit to the Old Observatory

Tuesday, 4 April

09:00 → 18:00 Particle Physics and BSM

09:00 Higgs Physics

Speaker: Michael Spannowsky (Durham University)

Slides Spannowsky_Goettingen.pdf

09:45 Two-Higgs doublet models in colliders and in the sky

Speaker: Jeremy Bernon (LPSC)

Slides Bernon_Goettingen.pdf

10:30 Coffee Break

11:00 Composite Models

Speaker: Prof. Francesco Sannino (CP3-Origins, SDU)

Slides Sannino-HeidelbergGottingen-2017-March.pdf

11:45 GUTs and the Early Universe

Speaker: Wilfried Buchmuller (DESY)

Slides Goettingen_4:17.pdf

12:30 Lunch Break

14:30 Gravitational Waves and BSM

Speaker: Dr Pedro Schwaller (CERN)

Slides GW_BSM_Pedro.pdf

15:15 BSM from asymptotic safety

Speaker: Prof. Daniel Litim (University of Sussex)

Slides 2017_OQPC_Goettingen.pdf

16:00 Coffee Break

16:30 Prospects for BSM physics searches in the Higgs sector at the LHC

Speaker: Mr Jason Veatch (Göttingen University)

Slides HBSM_Prospects.pdf

17:00 Simplified dark matter models with a spin-2 mediator at the LHC

Speaker: Ursula Laa (LPSC Grenoble)

Slides slidesLaa.pdf

17:30 Implications of Vector Boson Scattering Unitarity in Composite Higgs Models

Speaker: Dr Diogo Buarque Franzosi (II Physics Institute, Goettingen U.)

Slides talkGoe2.pdf

19:00 → 22:00 Conference Dinner

Wednesday, 5 April

09:00 → 16:30 Dark Matter

09:00 Dark Matter and late kinetic decoupling

Speaker: Torsten Bringmann (Hamburg University)

Slides LateKD_Bringmann.pdf

09:45 Phenomenology of self-interacting WIMPs

Speaker: Dr Felix Kahlhoefer (DESY)

Slides Kahlhoefer_Goettingen.pdf

10:30 Coffee Break

11:00 Dark Matter Models

Speaker: Prof. Jure Zupan

Slides Goettingen_2017_Zupan_print.pdf

11:45 Direct Detection of Dark Matter

Speaker: Dr Riccardo Catena (Institut fuer Theoretische Physik Goettingen)

Slides catena.pdf

12:30 Lunch Break

14:00 Dark Matter in E6 Grand Unification

Speaker: Jakob Schwichtenberg (Institute for Theoretical Particle Physics (TTP) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))

14:30 Dark matter in the Sun: scattering off electrons vs nucleons

Speaker: Raghuveer Garani (Physikalisches Institut, University Bonn)

Slides talk-geottingen.pdf

15:00 Dark matter from hidden gauge symmetry

Speaker: Dr Takashi Toma (Technische Universität München)

Slides goettingen.pdf

15:30 Sommerfeld effect at finite temperature

Speaker: Tobias Binder (ITP, Goettingen University)

Slides talk_TB.pdf