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8TH PATRAS WORKSHOP ON AXIONS, WIMPS AND WISPS

AXION-WIMP 2012 Scientific Programme  · 

Scientific Programme

The 8th Patras Workshop on Axions, WIMPs and WISPs

was held at Hyatt Regency Chicago, Chicago IL USA and at Fermilab, Batavia IL (on Friday, July 20, the programme was held at Fermilab).

Evening Reception: 17 July 2012.

Scientific Programme: 18 - 22 July 2012.

Icon Workshop Agenda (89KB)
(as of 13 July 2012)

 

Wednesday 18/07/2012

Title/Topic

Speaker

Welcome

 

Hidden Sector Photons,Axions, and WISPs

Rouven Essig

CMS Physics Results

Sarah Malik

Towards zero-­‐bkgd neutrino-­‐less 2-­‐beta decay with CUORE

Frank Avignone

Announcements

 

Break

 

Phenomenology of direct WIMP detection

Paolo Gondolo

Indications for a low opacity Universe at high energies

Manuel Meyer

Signatures of ALPs from conversions of intra-­‐cluster gamma-­‐rays

Manuel Meyer

Searching for new interactions and particles using torsion balances

Frank Fleischer

Discussion/Lunch

 

Portals and the Hidden Sector

Brian Batell

Beyond the Standard Model Research at Jefferson Lab

Jim Boyce

The Case for a Solar Influence on Certain Nuclear Decay Rates

Peter Sturrock

New frontiers in dark matter direct detection: probing sub-­‐GeV masses

Aaron Manalaysay

Break

 

Low Noise CCD R&D at Fermilab

Gustavo Cancelo

The LUX Dark Matter Experiment

Daniel Mckinsey

Dark forces and light dark matter

Dan Hooper

Search for dark matter with a CCD detector

Ben Kilminster

The DarkSide WIMP Search Program

Ben Loer

Thursday 19/07/12

Title/Topic

Speaker

Status of the XMASS experiment

Katsuki Hiraide

Implications of the Dark Z

Hooman Davoudiasl

Tree-­‐level photon interaction for ALPS-­‐ II and beyond

Babette Döbrich

Neutrino Physics in 2012

Benjamin Jones

Break

 

Interferometry as a probe of quantum geometry

Craig Hogan

Dark Forces in Hidden Sectors and in connection with Dark Matter

Sarah Andreas

Recent Work with the Yale Microwave Cavity Experiment

Penny Slocum

The Fermilab Holometer

Jason Steffen

Lunch

 

CMB Isocurvature Constraints and Gravitational Ward Identities

Hojin Yoo

Light pseudo-­‐scalar particles and gamma ray spectra

Denis Wouters

A New Operator For Axion Dark Matter Detection

Peter Graham

Solar Hidden Photon Search

Matthias Schwarz

Per, The Heavy Photon Search Experiment

Adrian Hansson

Storage Ring EDMs

Yannis Semertzidis

Discussion

 

Excursion

 
Friday 20/07/2012

Title/Topic

Speaker

Bus to Fermilab

 

Welcome by the Directorate

 

ADMX

Karl van Bibber

Direct Dark Matter Search with PICASSO

Ubi Wichoski

Group Photo and Coffee Break

 

CDMS Update

Robert Nelson

New particles and forces from chameleon dark energy

Amol Upadhye

Lunch

 

MINOS as an effective WIMP cannon.

Chris Wallace

APEX: A Prime Experiment

James Beacham

Axion cooling of white dwarfs

Jordi Isern

Shining Light on Modifications of Gravity

Clare Burrage

Break

 

Joint Experimental Theoretical Seminar

Marc Schumann

Fermilab tours

 
Saturday 21/07/12

Title/Topic

Speaker

Axion BEC: a model beyond Cold Dark Matter

Qiaoli Yang

Recent results from a search for Dark Matter production in the CMS experiment

Marc Weinberg

Constraints on axion-­‐ like particles from magnetic white dwarfs

Gill Ramandeep

Search for the dark photon at Belle

Yang Liu

Break

 

Status report and first results of the microwave LSW experiment at CERN

Michael Betz

Laser-­‐ based Experiment OSQAR

Miroslav Sulc

Search for DM with mono-­‐jet plus missing Et with ATLAS

Bjoern Penning

Search for celestial and laboratory chameleons with novel techniques

Konstantin Zioutas

Discussion

 

Lunch

 

Magnetically amplified tunneling of the 3rd kind as a probe of minicharged particles

Felix Karbstein

Cavity-­‐enhanced Light-­‐shining-­‐ through-­‐a-­‐wall experiments

Robin Baehre

nEDM

Josh Long

spin-­‐ dependent forces in sub-­‐mm range

Josh Long

Discussion

 

Break

 

Higgs and DM Mass

Jörg Jaeckl

Search for dark photon and dark Higgs at BABAR

Bertrand Echenard

Recent status of the Dark Matter search with EDELWEISS

Valentin Kozlov

Prospective exotic serches with the Nova Detectors

Athanasios Hatzikoutelis

Prospects for WIMP Dark Matter Direct Searches with
XENON1T and DARWIN

Uwe Oberlack

Sunday 22/07/12

Title/Topic

Speaker

A Concept for a Dark Matter Detector Using Superfluid Helium-­‐4

Wei Guo

Constraints on axion-­‐electron coupling for non-­‐hadronic models with CAST

Jaime Ruz Armendariz

IAXO

Julia Vogel

NuStar

Julia Vogel

Why not include TOKAMAKs in the quest for exotic particles?

Jean­‐Claude Vallet

Break

 

Discussion

 

Bubble Chambers for Direct Dark Matter Searches in COUPP

Eric Vazquez-Jauregui

Tentative observation of a gamma-­‐ray line at the Fermi-­‐LAT

Christoph Weniger

WISPy Dark Matter

Javier Redondo

Concluding Remarks

 

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