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.

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