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