Workshop


26 Aug, 2019 - 11 Oct, 2019

Next Frontiers in the Search for Dark Matter

Abstract

The origin of dark matter (DM) is among the most urgent questions in fundamental physics, as astronomical observations do not inform us directly about its particle nature. The proposed workshop will bring together theorists and experimentalists to explore new theoretical avenues and detection strategies. During the workshop we will focus on well-motivated and long-standing theories of DM, such as WIMPs and axions, and we will assess the status of fast-moving current searches. We will identify new DM theories, with particular emphasis on those giving distinct predictions from WIMPs. There will also be extensive discussions about new ideas for discovering DM through direct detection, indirect detection, collider production, and cosmological observations. Finally, we will explore dark-sector extensions of the standard model, which can yield distinctive cosmological and astrophysical signals, as well as exotic events at colliders.

Notice that there will be a conference during week 5 (Sep 23-27), covering the topics of the workshop. See the link above.

Topics

Week 1: New theories and the dark matter mass landscape
Week 2: Direct searches
Week 3: Indirect and astrophysical probes
Week 4: Searches at accelerators
Week 5: One week conference covering the themes of the workshop
Week 6: Axions and ALPs
Week 7: Primordial black holes dark matter and gravitational waves

Organizers

Marco Battaglieri (INFN Genova)
Laura Baudis (University of Zurich)
Francesco D'Eramo (Universita' and INFN Padova)
Claudia Frugiuele (CERN)
Eric Kuflik (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Tongyan Lin (UCSD)
Sam McDermott (Fermilab)
Hitoshi Murayama (UCB and LBNL and Kavli IPMU)
Stefano Profumo (UCSC and SCIPP)

Local organizers

Andrea Tesi (INFN Firenze)

Contact

francesco.deramo@pd.infn.it

Website:

Related events
Poster session

The participants who would like to present a poster are kindly invited to send an email with the title and a short abstract to alice.bernamonti@unifuit before May 22, specifying for which week of the workshop. Since a limited number of panels is available, the organizers will select the posters shortly after the deadline.

week 3

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
11:30 - 12:30 Tomasevic Newenfeld Collin-Ellerin Caceres
13:00 - 14:30 lunch lunch lunch lunch lunch
14:30 - 15:30 Sorce Emparan
  • Elena Caceres: 'On Sparse SYK, wormholes, and chaos"
  • Sean Colin-Ellerin: "Bootstrapping wuantum extremal surfaces
  • Roberto Emparan: "Black tsunamis and naked singularities in AdS'
  • Dominik Neuenfeld: "Bounds on gravitational brane couplings and tomography in AdS3 black hole microstates"
  • Jonathan Sorce: "Bulk causality from boundary entanglement: the connected wedge theorem revisited"
  • Marija Tomasevic: 'ds through holography

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Talks
Date Speaker Title Type Useful Links
26 Aug, 2019 - 12:30-13:00 Everybody Welcome to week 1 Introduction
26 Aug, 2019 - 15:00-16:30 Edward Hardy Dark matter axions from strings Seminar
27 Aug, 2019 - 11:30-13:00 Daniele Teresi Dark Matter from self-dual gauge/Higgs dynamics Seminar
28 Aug, 2019 - 11:00-13:00 Tim Tait Morning at Villa il Gioiello: An Emergent Solution to the Strong CP Problem (with Dark Matter!) Seminar
28 Aug, 2019 - 11:00-13:00 Yanou Cui Morning at Villa il Gioiello: Cosmic Archaeology with Gravitational Waves from (Axion) Cosmic Strings Seminar
28 Aug, 2019 - 11:00-13:00 Paddy Fox Morning at Villa il Gioiello: Nu DM Searches Seminar
29 Aug, 2019 - 11:30-13:00 Francesc Ferrer PBH as dark matter Seminar
30 Aug, 2019 - 11:30-13:00 Andrea Mitridate Bindings in the Dark Seminar
02 Sep, 2019 - 12:45-13:00 Everybody Welcome to week 2 Introduction
02 Sep, 2019 - 15:00-16:30 Lorenzo Calibbi Freeze-in dark matter and displaced vertices at the LHC Seminar
03 Sep, 2019 - 11:30-13:00 Sebastian Ellis Direct Deflection of Particle Dark Matter Seminar
04 Sep, 2019 - 11:30-13:00 Giovanni Grilli di Cortona Hidden valley phenomenology: from colliders to cosmology Seminar
04 Sep, 2019 - 14:30-16:30 Nadav Outmezguine Patio Open Discussion: Hubble tension and 21cm line Discussion
05 Sep, 2019 - 11:30-13:00 Yohei Ema Light dark matter at neutrino experiments Seminar
05 Sep, 2019 - 14:30-16:00 Nicholas Rodd Patio Open Discussion: Galactic Center Excess Discussion
06 Sep, 2019 - 11:30-13:00 Daniel Carney Scalable quantum architectures for dark matter detection Seminar
09 Sep, 2019 - 12:45-13:00 Everybody Welcome to week 3 Introduction
09 Sep, 2019 - 15:00-16:30 Nadav Outmezguine Reviving Millicharged Dark Matter for 21-cm Cosmology Seminar
10 Sep, 2019 - 11:30-13:00 Vikram Rentala Dark matter - dark radiation interaction and cosmic reionization Seminar
10 Sep, 2019 - 14:30-16:30 Tomer Volansky Patio Open Discussion: New Solution to the Cosmological Constant Seminar
11 Sep, 2019 - 15:00-15:30 Nicholas Rodd Afternoon at Villa il Gioiello: Indirect Detection with X-rays and gamma-rays Seminar
11 Sep, 2019 - 15:30-16:00 Stefano Profumo Afternoon at Villa il Gioiello: The Primordial Black Holes Variations Seminar
11 Sep, 2019 - 16:00-16:30 Zurab Berezhiani Afternoon at Villa il Gioiello: Dark matter, neutron stars, ultra high-energy cosmic rays Seminar
12 Sep, 2019 - 11:30-13:00 Raghuveer Garani Dark Matter Interactions with Muons in Neutron Stars Seminar
13 Sep, 2019 - 11:30-13:00 Paolo Panci 21-cm line anomaly: A brief status Seminar
16 Sep, 2019 - 12:45-13:00 Everybody Welcome to week 4 Introduction
16 Sep, 2019 - 15:00-16:30 Diego Redigolo Probing Muonic Forces and Dark Matter at Kaon Factories Seminar
17 Sep, 2019 - 11:30-13:00 Ruth Pottgen The Light Dark Matter eXperiment Seminar
18 Sep, 2019 - 11:30-13:00 Oren Slone Constraints on Superfluid DM using Local MW Observables Seminar
19 Sep, 2019 - 11:30-13:00 Marat Freytsis Seeing the dark matter halo through Gaia’s eyes with ML Seminar
20 Sep, 2019 - 11:30-13:00 Jonathan Kozaczuk Exploring dark sectors with muon beam experiments Seminar
23 Sep, 2019 - 10:00-17:30 Conference week -- Day 1 Public Conference
24 Sep, 2019 - 10:00-17:30 Conference Week -- Day 2 Public Conference
25 Sep, 2019 - 10:00-17:30 Conference Week -- Day 3 Public Conference
26 Sep, 2019 - 10:00-17:30 Conference Week -- Day 4 Public Conference
27 Sep, 2019 - 10:00-13:00 Conference Week -- Day 5 Public Conference
30 Sep, 2019 - 12:45-13:00 Welcome to week 6 Introduction
30 Sep, 2019 - 15:00-16:30 Lorenzo Ubaldi Axion dark matter and low scale inflation Seminar
01 Oct, 2019 - 11:30-13:00 Junwu Huang Searches for other vacua II: A new Higgstory at the cosmological collider Seminar
02 Oct, 2019 - 11:30-12:15 Roni Harnik Morning at Villa il Gioiello: Dark Sector Probes Seminar
02 Oct, 2019 - 12:15-13:00 Giovanni Villadoro Morning at Villa il Gioiello: Axion Thoughts Seminar
03 Oct, 2019 - 11:30-13:00 Yu-dai Tsai Long-lived Particle Searches at the High Energy Frontier of the Intensity Frontier: FerMINI and LongQuest Seminar
03 Oct, 2019 - 15:00-16:00 Masha Baryakhtar Patio Open Discussion: ALPs searches Seminar
03 Oct, 2019 - 16:30-17:30 Harikrishnan Ramani Patio Open Discussion: ALPs searches Seminar
04 Oct, 2019 - 11:30-13:00 William Terrano Axion dark matter detection with quantum gyroscopes Seminar
07 Oct, 2019 - 12:45-13:00 Welcome to week 7 Introduction
07 Oct, 2019 - 15:00-16:30 Roni Harnik More Dark Sector Probes Seminar
08 Oct, 2019 - 14:00-15:30 Fazlollah Hajkarim Pre-BBN Cosmology: Primordial Gravitational Waves and Dark Matter Seminar
09 Oct, 2019 - 11:00-12:30 Daniel Egana-Ugrinovic Formation of dark galaxies Seminar
10 Oct, 2019 - 11:00-12:30 Luigi Delle Rose Composite Dynamics in the Early Universe Seminar
11 Oct, 2019 - 11:00-12:30 Diego Redigolo DSB and GW Seminar
Materials