Dark Matter workshop @ CP3

6 Dec 2017, 09:00 → 8 Dec 2017, 14:10 Europe/Brussels

Salle Carnoy B059 (Institut des Sciences de la Vie (ISV))

This meeting is organized within the framework of the activities of (and supported by) the ATTRACT Brain to Brussels Innoviris Grant 2015, centered on dark matter simplified models at LHC and the complementarity of dark matter searches.

Confirmed speakers:

• Suzan Basegmez du Pree (AMS Cern)
• Sebastien Clesse (UNamur/UCL)
• Eduardo Cortina Gil (UCL)
• Marco Drewes (UCL)
• Tristan du Pree (Nikhef Amsterdam)
• Kaoru Hagiwara (KEK Tsukuba)
• Jan Heisig (RWTH Aachen)
• Thomas Jacques (SISSA Trieste)
• Jong Soo Kim (University of the Witwatersrand)
• Chris Kouvaris (CP3 Origins Odense)
• Sabine Kraml (LPSC Grenoble)
• Suchita Kulkarni (OEAW Vienna)
• Laura Lopez Honorez (ULB)
• Steven Lowette (VUB)
• Kentarou Mawatari (Osaka University)
• Ken Mimasu (UCL)
• Germano Nardini (ITP Bern)
• Jose Miguel No (Kings College London)
• Kai Schmidt Hoberg (DESY Hamburg)
• Bryan Zaldivar (LAPTH Annecy)

Participation to this workshop is by invitation only.

Wednesday, 6 December

Dark Matter searches at the LHC

Convener: Prof. Christophe Delaere (CP3)

1 Search for dark matter at the LHC with the ATLAS detector

Speaker: Dr Tristan du Pree (CP3, UCL)

Slides 20171207_CP3workshop_DMatATLAS_TristanduPree_noBackup.pdf

2 Summary of the LHC Dark Matter Working Group activities

Speaker: Dr Kentarou Mawatari Mawatari (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

Slides 1712lln_mawatari.pdf

10:50 Coffee Break

Dark Matter searches at the LHC

Convener: Prof. Christophe Delaere (CP3)

3 Search for dark matter at the LHC with the CMS detector

Speaker: Steven Lowette (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

Slides 171206_Lowette_DMWorkshopLLN_CMSDarkMatter.pdf

4 Dark Matter Signal Reconstruction in Simplified Models with machine learning

Speaker: Jong Soo Kim

Slides belgium_2017.pdf

12:40 Lunch

Dark Matter Simplified Models

Convener: Roberto Franceschini

5 Simplified models of DM at the LHC: from FIMPs to SIMPs

Speaker: Bryan Zaldivar

Slides Zaldivar_UCL2017_red.pdf

6 (Pseudo)scalar portals into Dark Matter: simplified models and beyond

Speaker: Jose Miguel No

Slides Louvain_DMW_JMNo.pdf

15:20 Coffee Break

Dark Matter Simplified Models

Convener: Roberto Franceschini

7 simplified model constraints beyond dark matter

Speaker: Sabine Kraml (LPSC Grenoble)

Slides Kraml-BeyondDMSimp.pdf

8 Displaced vertices from Pseudo-Dirac Dark Matter

Speaker: Thomas Jacques

Slides TJacques.pdf

17:10 Disussion

18:30 Cocktail

Thursday, 7 December

Light Dark Matter and Light Mediators

Convener: Fabio Maltoni (UCL)

9 Dark Matter Searches with AMS-02 Experiment on ISS

Speaker: Ms Suzan Basegmez (CP3)

Slides Suzan_UCLouvain2017.pdf

10 The case for self-interacting dark matter - current status and perspectives

Speaker: Kai Schmidt-Hoberg

Slides SIDM_KSH.pdf

10:50 Coffee Break

Light Dark Matter and Light Mediators

Convener: Fabio Maltoni (UCL)

11 Exploiting experimental data to constrain exotic dark matter scenarios

Speaker: Suchita Kulkarni (HEPHY, Vienna)

Slides Kulkarni_DM_Louvain_2017.pdf

12 Probing Light Dark Matter

Speaker: Chris Kouvaris

12:40 Lunch

Light Dark Matter and Light Mediators

Convener: Alberto Mariotti (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

13 Two topics on WIMP DM search at LHC

Speaker: Prof. Kaoru Hagiwara

Slides 171207kh-dm.pdf

14 Sterile Neutrino DM production in the Early Universe

Speaker: Marco Drewes (CP3 UCLouvain)

Slides Drewes_UCL_DM-workshop_2017.pdf

15:20 Coffee Break

Light Dark Matter and Light Mediators

Convener: Alberto Mariotti (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

15 ALPs at colliders

Speaker: Dr Ken Mimasu (CP3, Université Catholique de Louvain)

Slides ALPS_Mimasu.pdf

16 Dark Matter searches with the NA62 experiment

Speaker: Eduardo Cortina Gil (UCL - FYNU)

Slides 2017_NA62_DMCP3_nobackup.pdf

17:10 Discussion

19:30 Social Dinner

Friday, 8 December

Dark Matter beyond 'WIMPs'

Convener: Dr Michele Lucente (Centre for Cosmology, Particle Physics and Phenomenology - CP3)

17 Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter

Speaker: Mr Sébastien Clesse (?)

Slides CLESSE_Louvain.pdf

18 Using Gravitational Waves to Probe the Dark Sector

In this talk we overview the experimental status of the present and forthcoming gravitational wave detectors and their capabilities for probing dark sectors exhibiting phase transitions.

Speaker: Germano Nardini

Slides nardini.pdf

10:50 Coffee Break

Dark Matter beyond 'WIMPs'

Convener: Dr Michele Lucente (Centre for Cosmology, Particle Physics and Phenomenology - CP3)

19 Dark matter freeze-out beyond the WIMP paradigm

Speaker: Jan Heisig

Slides Heisig_beyondWIMPs_Louvain.pdf

20 Non-Cold DM and Epoch of Reionization

Speaker: Laura lopez Honorez (VUB)

Slides DMCP3-LLH.pdf

12:40 Lunch