Conveners
Plenary presentations
- Gondolo Paolo (University of Utah)
Prof.
Guenter Sigl
(University of Hamburg)
21/06/2018, 14:30
Presentation
Axion-like particles (ALPs) can convert into photons in several different ways:
in an external magnetic field (known as the Primakoff effect), by decay
into two photons, or through parametric amplification of incoming radio
photons in an oscillating ALP field within a narrow frequency range. For
non-relativistic ALPs all three effects can give rise to radio lines, in
particular from...
Mr
Antoine Garcon
(Helmholtz Institute Mainz)
21/06/2018, 14:50
Presentation
The nature of dark matter, the invisible substance that makes up over $80$% of the matter in the universe, is one of the most intriguing mysteries of modern physics. Elucidating the nature of dark matter would profoundly impact our understanding of cosmology and particle physics, providing key insights into physics beyond the Standard Model.
Recent theories of couplings between dark matter...
Filippo Sala
(DESY Hamburg)
21/06/2018, 15:10
Presentation
ALPs that couple to gluons are predicted both to solve the strong CP problem as well as in composite Higgs models (Higgs pseudo-Goldstone partners) and in Supersymmetry (R-axion).
I will discuss unexplored avenues in the LHC phenomenology resulting from such gluon-ALP couplings. I will derive a new LHC bound on ALPs from diphoton cross-section measurements, and show it is the strongest...
Dr
Kazufumi Sato
(ICRR, The University of Tokyo)
21/06/2018, 15:30
Presentation
XMASS is an experiment to search for dark matter (DM) using a single-phase liquid-xenon scintillator at the Kamioka Observatory in Japan which is located 2700 m.w.e. underground. With its low background environment, the XMASS detector has sensitivity not only for standard WIMPs which produce a xenon nuclear recoil in the detector, but also for various types of DM, for example, DM inducing an...
