The puzzle of dark matter - assembling the pieces

Europe/Berlin
DESY

DESY

Notkestraße 85 22607 Hamburg Germany
Alexander Grohsjean (DESY), Elisa Pueschel (DESY), Katharina Behr (DESY), Kelly Beernaert (DESY), Sarah Heim (DESY)
Description

The puzzle of dark matter conference takes place 29-31 October 2018 in the auditorum at DESY. The conference is meant to bring together theorists and experimentalists of all collaborations in the field of particle and astroparticle physics searching for dark matter. More than presenting the latest results of the searches, we hope to foster collaboration and identify areas for future cooperation and development to enhance future searches at both collider and non-collider based experiments.

Our keynote speakers are some of the leading experts in various areas of the field:

- Caterina Doglioni (ATLAS): collider searches

- Hans Kraus (LZ): direct searches

- Laura Covi: theory

- Greg Landsberg (CMS): collider searches

- Javier Rico (MAGIC/CTA): indirect searches

- Matthias Schott (ALPS)

A Young Scientist Forum will give PhD students and young postdocs the opportunity to present their work in short lightning round talks. If you are a PhD student, or supervisor, please consider submitting an abstract through the webpage.

On the closing day of the conference, a panel discussion will be held to dig deeper into the interplays and missing aspects in the searches discussed on the previous days.

NOTE: DESY can provide on-site childcare (ages 1+) and other accommodations for parents or primary caregivers. Please contact the organisers should you require any support to facilitate your attendance to the conference.

Poster
Participants
  • Alexander Grohsjean
  • Andreas Reiß
  • Arely Cortes Gonzalez
  • Baishali Dutta
  • Ben Brüers
  • Bjoern Penning
  • Caterina Doglioni
  • Chao Zhang
  • Chiara Giuri
  • Christian Sander
  • Christian Schwanenberger
  • Christoph Krieger
  • Christopher Hayes
  • Claudia Seitz
  • Daniel Locke
  • Dilia Portillo
  • Dmitry Malyshev
  • Elisa Pueschel
  • Enrico Morgante
  • Fang-Ying Tsai
  • Fatih Ertas
  • Felix Kahlhoefer
  • Filippo Sala
  • Florian Reindl
  • Galo Gallardo
  • Gerrit Van Onsem
  • Greg Landsberg
  • Hans Kraus
  • Hartmut Grote
  • Isabell Melzer-Pellmann
  • James Frost
  • Jan Conrad
  • Jan Heisig
  • Jan Hendrik Pold
  • Jan Schütte-Engel
  • Javier Rico
  • Jay Chen-Hsun Chan
  • Jochen Liske
  • Juliette Alimena
  • Katharina Behr
  • Katharina Bierwagen
  • Kayla McLean
  • Kelly Beernaert
  • Kristian Bjørke
  • Krisztian Peters
  • Lars Henkelmann
  • Laura Covi
  • Lauren Tompkins
  • Ljiljana Morvaj
  • Luc Darme
  • Luca Doria
  • Lucia Rinchiuso
  • Marco Zagermann
  • Maria Benito
  • Marianna Liberatore
  • Mateusz Duch
  • Matthias Saimpert
  • Matthias Schott
  • Michael Duerr
  • Michael Gustafsson
  • Michaela Queitsch-Maitland
  • Michel Lefebvre
  • Miroslav Sulc
  • Moritz Hütten
  • Nassim Bozorgnia
  • Noah Kurinsky
  • Othmane Rifki
  • Pani Priscilla
  • Patrick Rieck
  • Patrick Tunney
  • Pedro Schwaller
  • Philipp Gadow
  • Sam Cunliffe
  • Sandra Robles
  • Sarah Heim
  • Sarah Williams
  • Sascha Dreyer
  • Sebastian Wild
  • Stanislava Sevova
  • Stepan Kunc
  • Theo M. Nieuwenhuizen
  • Tina Pollmann
  • Tjark Miener
  • Torben Ferber
  • Udo Strohbusch
  • Valentin Tenorth
  • Vladimir Pastischenko
  • Vladyslav Danilov
  • William Kalderon
  • Yann Gouttenoire
    • 09:00 09:30
      Registration
    • 09:30 11:00
      Welcome Session
      Conveners: Alexander Grohsjean (DESY), Dr Michael Duerr (DESY)
      • 09:30
        Scope of the conference and practical information 20m
        Slides
      • 09:50
        Welcome address: History of Dark Matter 25m
        Speaker: Prof. Wilfried Buchmueller (DESY)
        Slides
      • 10:15
        Theory introduction on the variety of dark matter models 40m
        Speaker: Laura Covi (Goettingen)
        Slides
    • 11:00 11:30
      Coffee Break 30m
    • 11:30 13:25
      Introductions
      Conveners: Elisa Pueschel (DESY), Prof. Felix Kahlhoefer (RWTH Aachen University)
      • 11:30
        Overview of indirect detection searches 25m
        Speaker: Moritz Huetten (MPI Physik, Muenchen)
        Slides
      • 11:55
        Overview of the collider searches 25m
        Speaker: Priscilla Pani (DESY)
        Slides
      • 12:20
        Overview of the direct detection searches 40m
        Speaker: Prof. Hans Kraus (University of Oxford)
        Slides
      • 13:00
        Relic density calculations - rules and exceptions 25m
        Speaker: Jan Heisig (Louvain)
        Slides
    • 13:25 14:30
      Lunch Break 1h 5m
    • 14:30 16:10
      SUSY/WIMP
      Conveners: Kelly Beernaert (DESY), Sarah Heim (DESY)
      • 14:30
        Collider Searches: 2HDM-based and SUSY-inspired models 25m
        Speaker: Arely Cortes Gonzalez (CERN)
        Slides
      • 14:55
        WIMP searches with indirect detection experiments 25m
        Speaker: Lucia Rinchiuso (Saclay)
        Slides
      • 15:20
        Annual Modulation Searches 25m
        Speaker: Florian Reindl (HEPHY & TU Vienna)
        Slides
      • 15:45
        Identifying WIMPs from data and astrophysical uncertainties 25m
        Speaker: Nassim Bozorgnia (Durham University)
        Slides
    • 16:10 16:40
      Coffee Break 30m
    • 16:40 18:35
      Simplified models and EFT
      Conveners: Prof. Felix Kahlhoefer (RWTH Aachen University), Katharina Behr (DESY)
      • 16:40
        Rich phenomenology of simplified models/EFTs in MET+X final states 20m
        Speaker: Stanislava Sevova (Stanford University)
        Slides
      • 17:00
        Rich phenomenology of simplified models in mediator searches 20m
        Speaker: William Kalderon (Lund University)
        Slides
      • 17:20
        Direct detection with nuclear scattering 25m
        Speaker: Dr Tina Pollmann (Laurentian University)
        Slides
      • 17:45
        Simplified models/EFT in indirect detection 25m
        Speaker: Patrick Tunney (RWTH Aachen)
        Slides
      • 18:10
        The status of Dark Matter EFTs with a focus on Higgs portal models 25m
        Speaker: Dr Sebastian Wild (DESY)
        Slides
    • 09:00 10:40
      Axions, dark photons and low mass dark matter
      Conveners: Kelly Beernaert (DESY), Dr Michael Duerr (DESY)
      • 09:00
        Dark sectors with sub-GeV dark matter 25m
        Speaker: Luc Darme (National Center for Nuclear Research Wasaw)
        Slides
      • 09:25
        Indirect Searches for Axion-like Particles 25m
        Speaker: Mr Galo Gallardo Romero (DESY)
        Slides
      • 09:50
        Searches for light DM with electron recoil 25m
        Speaker: Noah Kurinsky (Fermilab)
        Slides
      • 10:15
        Axion/Dark photon: Collider 25m
        Speaker: Torben Ferber (DESY)
        Slides
    • 10:40 11:10
      Coffee Break 30m
    • 11:10 12:30
      Other dark matter searches
      Conveners: Prof. Felix Kahlhoefer (RWTH Aachen University), Sarah Heim (DESY)
      • 11:15
        ALPS and other direct Axion searches 25m
        Speaker: Jan Hendrik Pold (DESY)
        Slides
      • 11:40
        Long-lived particles in collider experiments: current strategies, gaps and future potential 25m
        Speaker: Juliette Alimena (Ohio State University)
        Slides
      • 12:05
        Primordial black holes 25m
        Speaker: Dr Dmitry Malyshev (Erlangen Center for Astroparticle Physics)
        Slides
    • 12:30 13:30
      Lunch Break 1h
    • 13:30 15:15
      Future
      Conveners: Alexander Grohsjean (DESY), Elisa Pueschel (DESY)
      • 13:30
        New ideas for direct detection 25m
        Speaker: Jan Conrad (Stockholm University)
        Slides
      • 13:55
        Future: Indirect detecton 40m
        Speaker: Javier Rico (IFAE)
        Slides
      • 14:35
        Looking ahead: where do we go with collider searches? 40m
        Speaker: Dr Caterina Doglioni (Lund University)
        Slides
    • 15:15 16:15
      Young Scientist Forum
      Convener: Sarah Heim (DESY)
      • 15:15
        Particle Dark Matter constraints: the effect of Galactic uncertainties 8m
        Speaker: Maria Benito (Instituto de Física Teórica - UNESP)
        Slides
      • 15:25
        Thermal DM beyond 100 TeV and Cosmic Rays 8m
        Speaker: Mr Yann Gouttenoire (DESY)
        Slides
      • 15:35
        Search for dark matter candidates produced in Z(ll) + ETmiss events with the ATLAS detector at the LHC 8m
        Speaker: Kayla McLean (University of Victoria)
        Slides
      • 15:45
        Dark sector physics with photons in Belle II 8m
        Speaker: Sam Cunliffe (DESY)
        Slides
      • 15:55
        Relaxion Dark Matter 8m
        Speaker: Enrico Morgante (DESY)
        Slides
      • 16:05
        Extended Dark Matter EFT 8m
        Speaker: Valentin Tenorth
        Slides
    • 16:15 16:45
      Coffee Break 30m
    • 16:45 17:45
      Colloquium: Greg Landsberg
    • 18:00 19:00
      Young Scientist Forum
      Convener: Katharina Behr (DESY)
      • 18:00
        Search for Dark Matter produced in association with a Higgs boson decaying to bbar 8m
        Speaker: Mr Philipp Gadow (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik)
        Slides
      • 18:10
        Search for dark matter produced in association with a Higgs boson decaying to pair of bottom quarks using 79.8 fb−1 of proton collisions at √ s = 13 TeV with ATLAS detector 8m
        Speaker: Mrs Dilia Portillo (LPNHE, Paris)
        Slides
      • 18:20
        Probing the nature of Dark Matter at the ILC 8m
        Speaker: Mr Dane Locke (University of Southampton)
        Slides
      • 18:30
        Inelastic Dark Matter heating up Neutron Stars 8m
        Speaker: Dr Sandra Robles (The University of Melbourne)
        Slides
      • 18:40
        Constraints on light pseudoscalar mediators from B decays and direct detection experiments 8m
        Speaker: Mr Fatih Ertas (RWTH Aachen)
        Slides
    • 19:00 22:00
      Conference Buffet (canteen extension) 3h
    • 09:00 10:30
      Future
      Conveners: Elisa Pueschel (DESY), Dr Michael Duerr (DESY)
      • 09:00
        Overflow from YSF: Probing dark matter through exotic Higgs boson decays to a pair of light bosons in the bbμμ final state. 8m
        Speaker: Christopher Hayes (Stony Brook University)
        Slides
      • 09:10
        Future: Axions 40m
        Speaker: Matthias Schott (Uni Mainz)
        Slides
      • 09:50
        The future of dark matter searches - speculative ideas and long-term strategies 40m
        Speaker: Prof. Pedro Schwaller (CERN)
        Slides
    • 10:30 11:00
      Coffee Break 30m
    • 11:00 12:00
      Interpretation/discussion panel
      Convener: Enrico Morgante (DESY)
    • 12:00 12:30
      Closing
      • 12:00
        Closing remarks 20m
        Slides
    • 16:00 18:00
      Public outreach event at the Planetarium: (German)