Workshop Program
Workshop Program
LDMA2015
Scientific Program
The workshop scientific program will begin on Wednesday, June 24, and will end on Friday, June 26, at lunch time. The program will include presentation sessions in the morning and afternoon, followed by discussion sessions.
Social Program
The welcome reception will take place at the Sala consigliare of the Camogli City Hall, from 18:00 to 19:30 on June 23, instead of the Castello della Dragonara. The social dinner will take place on Thursday, June 25.
Tuesday June 23
16:30 - 18:30 Registration at the Hotel Cenobio
18:00 - 19:30 Welcome reception at the Sala Consigliare of the Camogli City Hall
Wednesday June 24
08:30 - 09:15 Registration
09:15 - 09:30 Welcome
09:30 - 10:00 A theoretical overview on dark forces
Maxim Pospelov (University of Victoria)
10:00 - 10:30 Cosmological constraints on light dark matter
Jonathan Davis (Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
Chair: Eugenio Scapparone (INFN - Bologna)
11:00 - 11:30 Search for light dark matter with fixed target experiments at hadron machines
Patrick deNiverville (University of Victoria)
11:30 - 12:00 LDM search at the Fermilab BNB with the MiniBooNE detector
Robert Cooper (Indiana University)
12:00 - 12:30 Dark photon search in heavy ion experiments at RHIC and LHC
Taku Gunji (University of Tokio)
12:30 - 13:00 Discussion 1
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
Chair: Annalisa D’Angelo (Università di Roma Tor Vergata and INFN)
14:30 - 15:00 Light dark matter searches with fixed target experiments at lepton machines
Gordan Krnjaic (Perimeter Institute)
15:00 - 15:30 The Jefferson Lab facility for light dark matter searches
Stepan Stepanyan (Jefferson Lab)
15:30 - 16:00 The APEX experiment at Jefferson Laboratory
James Beacham (Ohio State University)
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break
Chair: Alessandra Filippi (INFN - Torino)
16:30 - 17:00 The HPS experiment at Jefferson Laboratory
Norman Graf (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
17:00 - 17:30 Search for dark forces at BABAR
Alberto Lusiani (Scuola Normale Superiore and INFN-Pisa)
17:30 - 18:00 Search for dark forces at Belle and Belle II
Gianluca Inguglia (DESY - Hamburg)
18:00 - 18:30 Discussion 2
Thursday June 25
Chair: Raffaella De Vita (INFN - Genova)
09:00 - 09:30 Heavy photon search at Mainz
Harald Merkel (J. Gutenberg University Mainz)
09:30 - 10:00 The MESA facility for light dark matter search
Sabato Stefano Caiazza (J. Gutenberg University Mainz)
10:00 - 10:30 The LNF facility for light dark matter search
Paolo Valente (INFN - Roma)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
Chair: Fabio Bossi (INFN - LNF)
11:00 - 11:30 The PADME experiment at LNF
Mauro Raggi (INFN - LNF)
11:30 - 12:00 LDM search at Cornell
Jim Alexander (Cornell University)
12:00 - 12:30 The BDX experiment
Marzio De Napoli (INFN - Catania)
12:30 - 13:00 Discussion 3
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
Chair: Nicolao Fornengo (Università di Torino and INFN)
14:30 - 15:00 Dark matter halos as particle colliders for light dark sectors
Sean Tulin (York University)
15:00 - 15:30 Light dark matter and direct detection
Claudia Nones (CEA - IRFU - SPP)
15:30 - 16:00 Directionality in DM detection
Daniel Snowden-Ifft (Occidental College)
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break
Chair: D. Watts (University of Edinburgh)
16:30 - 17:00 Carbon nanotubes potentialities for directional searches of dark matter particles with M<10 GeV
Gianluca Cavoto (INFN - Roma)
17:00 - 17:30 Search for dark forces in nuclear transitions
Attila Krasznahorkay (Hungarian Academy of Science)
17:30 - 18:00 Accelerator driven searches in underground laboratory
Maxim Pospelov (University of Victoria)
18:00 - 18:30 Discussion 4
20:00 Social Dinner at Hotel Cenobio
Friday June 26
Chair: Giacomo Polesello (INFN - Pavia)
09:00 - 09:30 Searches for dark matter at the LHC and their interpretation
Greg Landsberg (Brown University)
09:30 - 10:00 Search for long-lived particles at LHC (or hadron colliders)
Stefano Giagu (Università di Roma la Sapienza)
10:00 - 10:30 The SHIP experiment at CERN
Walter Bonivento (INFN - Cagliari)
10:30 - 11:00 LDM searches and millicharge experiments
Eder Izaguirre (Perimeter Institute)
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30 Discussion and closeout
End of the workshop