Dark Matter: A Light Move

Europe/Berlin
4b, building 1b (DESY Hamburg)

4b, building 1b

DESY Hamburg

Babette Döbrich (DESY), Javier Redondo (MPP)
Description

The workshop on ultralight dark matter searches Dark Matter: A Light Move aims to explore and gather ideas about searching directly (and to a lesser extent indirectly) for Dark Matter candidates with sub-eV masses, most prominently the axion and other weakly interacting light particles (WISPs).

The workshop’s aim is to provide a platform for elaborate discussions and foster collaborations and new experiments. We therefore foresee short presentations + up to 30min discussion time. All speakers are therefore highly encouraged to include in their talk also their own questions to the community and use the opportunity to discuss also "unfinished" ideas with colleagues from different disciplines.

During this two-day workshop, we foresee

  • a brief theory overview for WISPY DM,
  • general evidence for DM and peculiar features of WISPy DM, astrophysical evidence,
  • existing axion DM setups,
  • prospects of WISP DM setups (cavities, dish-searches...),
  • relevant experimental techniques: magnetic challenges, detectors.

Confirmed speakers include already:

  • Andrei Lobanov (MPIfR)
  • Igor Irastorza (Zaragoza)
  • Michael Betz (CERN)
  • Axel Lindner (DESY)
  • Joerg Jaeckel (Heidelberg)
  • Javier Redondo (LMU Munich)
  • Pierre Sikivie (Florida)
  • Marek Kowalski (Bonn)
  • Dieter Horns (Hamburg)
    • 1
      Welcome
      Speakers: Babette Döbrich, Javier Redondo, Joachim Mnich
      Slides
    • 2
      Theoretical aspects of WISPy cold dark matter
      Speaker: Joerg Jaeckel
      Slides
    • 3
      Detecting WISPy cold Dark Matter
      Speaker: Javier Redondo
      Slides
    • 4
      Dish antenna experiments
      Speaker: Prof. Marek Kowalski (Bonn University)
      Slides
    • 5
      Dish antenna experiments at DESY- I
      Speaker: Dr Axel Lindner (DESY)
      Slides
    • 12:30
      WISPy Lunch
    • 6
      ADMX and beyond
      (Remote)
      Speaker: Karl van Bibber
      Slides
    • 7
      WISPDMX
      Speaker: Andrei Lobanov
      Slides
    • 8
      Cavity WISP searches at CERN
      Speaker: Michael Betz (CERN)
      Slides
    • 9
      WISPy DM searches at IAXO
      Speaker: Igor Irastorza
      Slides
    • 10
      Astrophysical implications of WISP DM
      Speaker: Prof. Dieter Horns (Univ. Hamburg)
      Slides
    • Tours ALPS and HERA
      slides
    • 20:00
      Dinner at Bistro
    • 11
      Coherent and incoherent radiometers for radioastronomy from GHz to THz
      Speakers: Ernst Kreysa, F. Schäfer, R. Keller
      Slides
    • 12
      Particle models and small-scale structure of DM
      Speaker: Torsten Bringmann (Hamburg University)
    • 13
      An argument that the dark matter is axions
      Speaker: Pierre Sikivie
      Slides
    • 14
      New ideas
      Slides
    • 12:30
      WISPy Lunch
    • 15
      Cusps and Cores: WIMPy or WISPy DM?
      Speaker: Anton Baushev (DESY Zeuthen)
      Slides
    • 16
      Magnets for WISP searches at DESY
      Speaker: Dieter Trines (DESY)
      Slides
    • 17
      Axion DM and inflation after Planck
      Speaker: Cristiano Germani (LMU, Munich)
      Slides
    • 18
      Axion DM in SUSY
      Speaker: Frank Steffen (MPP Munich)
      Slides
    • 19
      Closing
      Speakers: Babette Doebrich (DESY), Javier Redondo