Quantum Universe Kickoff Meeting

19 Mar 2019, 09:00 → 20 Mar 2019, 21:30 Europe/Berlin

DESY Main Auditorium (Campus Bahrenfeld)

This is the kickoff meeting of the Cluster of Excellence “Quantum Universe” funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) as part of Germany's Excellence Strategy.

(https://www.qu.uni-hamburg.de)

First day will be plenary in the DESY main auditorium, with a special keynote talk at 16:45, followed by a reception. In the morning of second day, teams from sub-projects will meet in parallel sessions.

 

Poster QU-kickoff-Poster_Druck.pdf

Tuesday 19 March

1 Quantum Universe Overview

Speakers: Geraldine Servant (DESY and U. hamburg), Jan Louis (Universität Hamburg), Mr Peter Schleper (Hamburg University)

2 Area: Higgs

Speaker: Georg Weiglein (DESY)

Slides qu_kickoff_higgs.pdf

3 Area: Dark Matter

Speaker: Dieter Horns

Slides talk_horns_v0.2.pdf

11:10 Coffee break

4 Area: Gravitational Waves

Speaker: Marcus Brueggen

Slides QU_kickoff_AREAGW_2.pdf

5 Area: Quantum Theories

Speaker: Gleb Aryutunov

Slides Kickoff_Gleb.pdf

6 Platforms

Speaker: Erika Garutti (University of Hamburg)

Slides QU-Platforms-kickoff_V1.pptx

13:00 Lunch break

7 Towards categorified homology

Speaker: Tobias Dyckerhoff

Slides qutalk.pdf

8 Precision gravity: from the LHC to LISA

Speaker: Rafael Porto

Slides Porto_QU.pdf

9 R&D Towards 3rd-Generation Gravitational-Wave Detectors

Speaker: Sebastian Steinlechner

Slides 2019_QU_Kickoff_-_GWD_RD.pdf

15:15 Coffee break

10 Mimicking cosmic high-energy beams in the lab?

Speakers: Prof. Florian Grüner (CFEL / UNI-HH), Prof. Guenter Sigl (University of Hamburg)

Slides kickoff-DM3.pdf

11 Dark Matter and the Higgs boson

Speaker: Sarah Heim (DESY)

Slides SarahHeim_QU_19032019.pdf

16:30 Break

Keynote Talk: "Higgs and the new fundamental interactions"

Particle physicists often talk of four fundamental forces, or interactions: gravity, electromagnetic, weak and strong. Yet particle physicists' standard model has long predicted a new short-range force, associated with the Higgs boson. Unlike the electromagntic, weak and strong forces, its interaction strength does not seem to be a multiple of any underlying basic unit such as the electric charge. Nor does it simply couple to mass in the way that gravity does.

This new "Higgs" force is hypothesised to shape our world in crucial ways, for example ensuring stability of the proton. Yet it is only in the past two years that experiments at the Large Hadron Collider have succeeded in directly observing it. In this talk I will give an overview of what we know of this unique new force, of questions about
it that we know in principle how to answer with future colliders, and of others that we still have no idea how to address.

Convener: Prof. Gavin Salam (U. Oxford)

slides 201903-Hamburg-QuantUniv-salam-4pdf.pdf

17:45 Reception

Wednesday 20 March

Parallel Sessions Dark Matter: DM3

Convener: Prof. Guenter Sigl (University of Hamburg)

12 Introduction

13 DM3.1, DM3.2: “beam instabilities”

Speaker: Martin Pohl (DESY)

Slides QU_Inaug_Instab.pdf

14 DM3.3: “magnetogenesis”

Speakers: Prof. Guenter Sigl (University of Hamburg), Robi Banerjee

Parallel Sessions Higgs: H2 + DM1.4

Convener: Christophe Grojean (DESY)

15 Introduction to H2 projects

Speaker: Christophe Grojean (DESY)

Slides Grojean_QU_H2_2019_03_20.pdf

16 Searches for an extended Higgs sector

Speaker: Dr Tim Stefaniak (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY)

Slides TStefaniak_H2_ExtendedHiggsSectors.pdf

17 Connections between the Higgs and the dark sectors (incl. collider searches for heavy dark sectors as well as for singlet-like Higgs boson)

Speaker: Fady Bishara (DESY)

Slides bishara-qu.pdf

18 Implications of cosmology in Higgs physics

Speaker: Nayara Fonseca (DESY)

Slides QU_-_March_-_Fonseca.pdf

19 DM1.4: Long-lived particles

Speaker: Krisztian Peters (DESY)

Parallel Sessions Quantum Theories: QT + GW

Convener: Geraldine Servant (DESY and U. hamburg)

Parallel Sessions Dark Matter: DM2

Convener: Prof. Dieter Horns (Univ. Hamburg)

20 DM2.1: Haloscopes - WISPDMX, BRASS

Speaker: Le Hoang Nguyen

Slides QU_KO_DM21_LeHoangNguyen.pdf

21 DM 2.2: Haloscopes - MADMAX

Speaker: Prof. Erika Garutti (University of Hamburg)

Slides QU-DM2-kickoff.key QU-DM2-kickoff.pdf

22 DM2.3: Helioscope - IAXO

Speaker: Uwe Schneekloth (DESY)

Slides Schneekloth_IAXO@DESY.pdf

23 DM2.4: New experiments - WISPFI, WISPLC

Speaker: Mr Yikun GU (IEXP, University of Hamburg)

24 Discussion

Parallel Sessions Gravitational Waves: GW

Convener: Marcus Brüggen (Sternwarte)

Parallel Sessions Higgs: H1

Convener: Kerstin Tackmann (DESY)

25 High-precision predictions and vacuum stability constraints

Speaker: Bernd Kniehl (II. Inst. f. Theor. Phys., Univ. Hamburg)

Slides kickoff.pdf

26 Higgs measurements and combination

Speaker: Adinda de Wit (DESY)

Slides QUKickoffmeeting_AdeWit_2003.pdf

27 Global fits and CP properties

Speaker: Dr Tim Stefaniak (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY)

Slides TStefaniak_GlobalFits_and_CP.pdf

28 Higgs potential and self-interaction

Speaker: Christophe Grojean (DESY)

Slides Grojean_QU_H1_2019_03_20.pdf

29 Simplified template cross sections and theory predictions

Speaker: Frank Tackmann (DESY)

Slides 2019-03-20_STXS_QU.pdf

30 Discussion

Parallel Sessions Quantum Theories: QT

Convener: Vicente Cortés

31 Differential-geometric structures and problems from supergravity theories

Speaker: Carlos Shahbazi

32 Integrable structures in supersymmetric gauge theories

Speaker: Fabrizio Nieri

11:30 Coffee break

11:30 Coffee break

11:30 Coffee break

Parallel Sessions Dark Matter: DM1

Convener: Kai Schmidt-Hoberg (DESY)

33 DM1.1: Searches for DM using galaxy surveys

Speaker: Jochen Liske

Slides WAVES.pdf

34 DM1.2: Constraints on DM self-interaction

Speaker: Kai Schmidt-Hoberg (DESY)

Slides Jochen_QU.pdf

35 DM1.3: WISPs at Colliders

Speaker: Torben Ferber (DESY)

Slides 2019_03_20_QU_ferber.pdf

36 DM1.4: "Improved background estimates in Dark Matter searches: Example Z(ll)H(inv)"

Speaker: Mr Jorge Andres Sabater Iglesias (ATLAS)

Slides QuantumUniverse_Talk.pdf

37 DM1.5: TAIGA + Heavy Dark matter searches

Speaker: Dr Martin Tluczykont (InstExpPh)

Slides Hamburg_QU_Kickoff_TAIGA_DM.pdf

Parallel Sessions Gravitational Waves: GW

Convener: Roman Schnabel

38 QU shot-noise prototype of the Einstein Telescope / Low thermal noise mirror coatings

Speaker: Roman Schnabel

39 New proposal for cooling mirror test-masses

Speaker: Mikhail Korobko

40 QU cold-mirror experiment at DESY

Speaker: Jörn Schaffran (FLA)

41 Highly stable light at 2µm for GWD

Speaker: Sebastian Steinlechner

42 Optomechanical accelerometers and heterodyne sensors for seismic noise reduction

Speaker: Oliver Gerberding

43 GW detection with broader signal response: the quantum expander

Speaker: Mikhail Korobko

44 Final Discussion

Parallel Sessions Higgs: H3

Convener: Prof. Erika Garutti (University of Hamburg)

45 Introduction to H3

Speaker: Prof. Erika Garutti (University of Hamburg)

Slides QU-H3-kickoff.pdf

46 H3.1 — 5D detectors: Calorimeters

Speaker: Felix Sefkow (DESY)

Slides 5d-Calo.pdf

47 H3.1 — 5D detectors: Liquid Scintillator Detectors

Speaker: Björn Wonsak (UniHH Opera)

Slides 5dRecoQUKick-Off_talk_c.pdf

48 H3.2 — Multi-dimensional Reconstruction Algorithms

Speakers: Gregor Kasieczka (Institut fuer Experimentalphysik / UHH), Ties Behnke (DESY)

Slides 5D_Detectors_Algorithms.pdf 5D_Detectors_Algorithms.pptx

49 H3.3 — Next-generation Pixel Detectors and Microelectronics

Speaker: Prof. Erika Garutti (University of Hamburg)

Slides QU-H3.3-Pixels.pdf

50 Discussion

Parallel Sessions Quantum Theories: QT

Convener: Vicente Cortés

51 Cluster Algebras, Integrability and Scattering Amplitudes

Speaker: Dr Georgios Papathanasiou (DESY)

52 Transgression of D-branes

Speaker: Severin Bunk

13:00 Break

Plenary: Measures, action plans, overarching topics

53 QURS and Early Career Council

Speaker: Gudrid Moortgat-Pick (University of Hamburg / DESY)

Slides QURS_kickoff_fin.pdf

54 PR and Transfer Strategy

Speaker: Roman Schnabel

55 Diversity Strategy and Measures

Speaker: Beate Heinemann (DESY and Freiburg University)

Slides QUEO_kickoff.pdf

56 Organisational Issues: Travel, Guest and Conference Procedures

Speakers: Mr Christian Kühn (Universität Hamburg, Exzellenzcluster Quantum Universe), Dr Michael Grefe (Universität Hamburg)

Slides QU-Procedures_kickoff.pdf

15:00 Break

Assembly of Early Career Scientists: PhDs, postdocs, YIG leaders and JProfs

Election of postdoc and YIG representatives

Assembly of PIs

16:00 Coffee break

16:00 Coffee break

Steering Board meeting