Workshop on Off-the-Beaten-Track Dark Matter and Astrophysical Probes of Fundamental Physics

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The workshop will bring together experimental, observational and theoretical communities, in the fields of astro-particle physics, early universe cosmology and dark matter searches and phenomenology. We will focus on both astrophysical probes or hints of new physics, as well as ‘non standard’ dark matter signatures. We aim to assess current anomalies, the constraining power of near future astrophysical or cosmological probes and the status of promising particle physics models. 


List of Speakers:

Asimina Arvanitaki, Lars Bergstrom, Annalisa Bonafede, Massimiliano Bonamente, Alexey Boyarsky, Esra Bulbul, Eric Carlson, Gianpaolo Carosi, Sasha Davidson, Glennys Farrar, Igor Garcia Irastorza, Mark D. Goodsell, Derek Jackson Kimball, Adrian Jenkins, David Jones, Manoj Kaplinghat, Alexander Kusenko, Andrea Maccio', David Marsh, Alexander Merle, Alessandro Mirizzi, Andrii Neronov, Valeria Pettorino, Maxim Pospelov, Georg Raffelt, Miguel A. Sanchez Conde, Peter Tinyakov, Matteo Viel, Alex Vikman, Tomer Volansky

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Workshop on Off-the-Beaten-Track Dark Matter and Astrophysical Probes of Fundamental Physics | (smr 2734)

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Monday, 13 April 2015

09:00 - 20:00 Session 1 (Axions, astrophysics and experiments)

Location:

Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall

09:00 REGISTRATION 1h0' ( Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1) )

10:00 Astrophysical axion bounds 45'

Speaker:	George RAFFELT (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik, Munich, Germany)
Material:	Slides

10:45 Search for axions with the International Axion Observatory (IAXO) 30'

Speaker:	Igor GARCIA IRASTORZA (Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain)
Material:	Slides

11:15 Coffee Break 45' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )

12:00 Hunting the dark matter axion with the ADMX experiment 30'

Speaker:	Gianpaolo CAROSI (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, USA)
Material:	Slides

12:30 Tuning your radio to axions and their WISP cousins 30'

Speaker:	Andrei LOBANOV (Max-Planck Institut fuer Radioastronomie, Bonn, Germany)
Material:	Slides

13:00 Lunch Break 2h0' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )
15:00 The highs and lows of the QCD axion 30'

Speaker: Asimina ARVANITAKI (Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Canada)

15:30 Searches for transient and oscillating exotic spin-dependent interactions 30'

Speaker:	Derek JACKSON KIMBALL (California State University, East Bay, Hayward, USA)
Material:	Slides

16:00 Contributed Talk - Probing axion-like particles with galaxy clusters 20'

Speaker:	Andrew POWELL (Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, Oxford, UK)
Material:	Slides

16:20 Coffee Break 40' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )
17:00 Discussion 40'
18:00 RECEPTION 2h0' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )

Tuesday, 14 April 2015

09:30 - 11:30 Session 2 (Axions - Theory aspects)

Location:

Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall

09:30 WISPy dark matter from the top down 45'

Speaker:	Mark D. GOODSELL (LPTHE, Paris, France)
Material:	Slides

10:15 Axions vs WIMPs 30'

Speaker:	Sacha DAVIDSON (Institut de Physique Nucleaire de Lyon, France)
Material:	Slides

10:45 Coffee Break 45' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )

11:30 - 18:05 Session 3 (Structure formation and magnetic fields)

Location:

Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall

11:30 The structure of the dark matter predicted from simulations 45'

Speaker:	Adrian R. JENKINS (Durham University, UK)
Material:	Slides

12:15 Perspectives of discoveries from intergalactic space 30'

Speaker:	Matteo VIEL (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, INAF, Trieste)
Material:	Slides

12:45 Lunch Break 1h45' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )

14:30 The interstellar medium of the galactic center region 30'

Speaker:	David JONES (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
Material:	Slides

15:00 Measuring magnetic fields in galaxy clusters through radio observations 30'

Speaker:	Annalisa BONAFEDE (University of Hamburg, Germany)
Material:	Slides

15:30 Intergalactic magnetic fields 30'

Speaker:	Andrii NERONOV (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
Material:	Slides

16:00 Coffee Break 45' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )

16:45 The impact of baryons and cosmology on dark matter distribution in galaxies 30'

Speaker:	Andrea V. MACCIO' (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Astronomie, Heidelberg, Germany)
Material:	Slides

17:15 The Galactic magnetic field 30'

Speaker:	Glennys FARRAR (New York University, USA)
Material:	Slides Video

17:45 Contributed Talk - Using structure formation to constrain dark matter models 20'

Speaker:	Aurel SCHNEIDER (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Material:	Slides

Wednesday, 15 April 2015

09:15 - 22:00 Session 4 (X-rays and sterile neutrinos)

09:15 keV Sterile neutrinos as dark matter 45' ( Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall )

Speaker:	Alexander MERLE (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik, Munich, Germany)
Material:	Slides

10:00 Dark matter searches in the x-ray band; the past, the present, the future 30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall )

Speaker: Ezra BULBUL (Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA)
10:30 Coffee Break 45' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )
11:15 The $\nu$MSM and decaying dark matter 45'

Speaker: Alexey M. BOYARSKY (Lorentz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Leiden, The Netherlands)

12:00 The 3.5 keV line saga 30'

Speaker:	Eric CARLSON (University of California Santa Cruz, USA)
Material:	Slides

12:30 Lunch Break 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )

14:00 Contributed Talk - Correlations between ID signals and the LHC 20'

Speaker:	Giorgio ARCADI (Universite Paris-Sud, Orsay, France)
Material:	Slides

14:20 Contributed Talk - Cross-correlation angular power spectrum of sterile neutrinos 20'

Speaker:	Christoph WENIGER (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Material:	Slides

14:40 Discussion 40'
15:20 FREE TIME - Please note Outside activity (Joint ICTP-SISSA String Seminar, webpage link: http://www.sissa.it/tpp/activity/string/string.php) 3h40'
19:00 SOCIAL DINNER 3h0'

Thursday, 16 April 2015

09:15 - 14:30 Session 5 (Astrophysics and cosmology)

Location:

Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall

09:15 Cosmology after Planck 2015 45'

Speaker:	Valeria PETTORINO (Institut fuer Theoretische Physik, Heidelberg, Germany)
Material:	Slides

10:00 The cluster soft excess: a reservoir of warm baryons at the outskirts of clusters 30'

Speaker:	Massimiliano BONAMENTE (University of Alabama in Huntvsille, USA)
Material:	Slides

10:30 Coffee Break 45' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )

11:15 Axion-like particles and galaxy cluster X-rays as a window to the dark sector 30'

Speaker:	David M.C. MARSH (Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, Oxford, UK)
Material:	Slides

11:45 The hunt for axion-like particles with gamma rays 30'

Speaker:	Miguel SANCHEZ CONDE (The Oskar Klein Centre for Cosmological Physics, Stockholm, Sweden)
Material:	Slides

12:15 Particle physics lesson from core-collapse supernovae 30'

Speaker:	Alessandro MIRIZZI (University of Bari, Italy)
Material:	Slides

12:45 Lunch Break 1h45' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )

14:30 - 18:00 Session 6 (Exotic candidates)

Location:

Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall

14:30 Dark-matter heavyweights 45'

Speaker:	Alexander KUSENKO (University of Los Angeles, USA)
Material:	Slides

15:15 Self-interacting dark matter 45'

Speaker:	Manoj KAPLINGHAT (University of California, Irvine, USA)
Material:	Slides

16:00 Coffee Break 30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )

16:30 Beyond WIMPs: new paradigms in the search for dark matter 30'

Speaker:	Tomer VOLANSKY (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Material:	Slides

17:00 Contributed Talk - Search for ultra-light axions using precision cosmological data 20'

Speaker:	Daniel GRIN (Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, Chicago, USA)
Material:	Slides

17:20 Discussion 40'

Friday, 17 April 2015

09:00 - 12:30 Session 7 (Non-standard searches and conclusions)

Location:

Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall

09:00 Primordial black holes as dark matter? 45'

Speaker:	Peter TINYAKOV (Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
Material:	Slides

09:45 Direct detection of the 10eV-100keV bosonic dark matter using ionization signature 45'

Speaker:	Maxim POSPELOV (University of Victoria, Canada)
Material:	Slides

10:30 Coffee Break 45' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )

11:15 Imperfect dark matter 30'

Speaker:	Alexander VIKMAN (Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics, Munich, Germany)
Material:	Slides

11:45 Dark matter: past, present and future 45'

Speaker:	Lars BERGSTROM (The Oskar Klein Centre for Cosmoparticle Physics, Stockholm, Sweden)
Material:	Slides