AXION-WIMP 2011 Scientific Programme  · 

Scientific Programme

The 7th Patras Workshop on Axions, WIMPs and WISPs

was held at Mykonos, Royal Myconian & Myconian Imperial Resorts.

Evening Reception: 26 June 2011.

Scientific Programme: 27 June - 1 July 2011.

Agenda of the 7th Patras-Axion-WIMP-WISP Workshop:

 

Monday 27/06/2011

Title/Topic

Speaker

Welcome

 
   

The mu problem, weak CP, strong CP, axions, and GUTs

Jihn Kim

Identifying Dark Matter Particles

Gianfranco Bertone

ADMX (1),
ADMX (2)

Gray Rybka /David Tanner

EDELWEISS II: latest results

Johann Gironet

Experimental search for the hidden sector photon at UWA

Rhys Povey

Light-shining-through-walls with virtual minicharge particle-antiparticle states in external magnetic fields

Babette Doebrich

Neutrino Mass Bounds from Cosmological Probes

Yong-Yeon Keum

White dwarfs as physical laboratories: the axion case

Jordi Isern

   

Lunch

 
   

Review of EDM experiments

Yannis Semertzidis

An improved search of the nEDM

Philipp Schmidt-Wellenburg

First results from Yale 34GHz cavity experiment

Andrew Martin

Status report of the CERN light shining through the wall experiment with microwave axions and related aspects

Michael Betz

qBounce, gravity resonance spectroscopy and 5th force limits

Hartmut Abele

Indications for a highly transparent universe at very high energies

Manuel Meyer

CAST

Theopisti Dafne

   

Welcome Reception at the Hotel

 

 

Tuesday 28/06/2011

Title/Topic

Speaker

Bose-Einstein Condensation of Dark Matter Axions

Pierre Sikivie

Axions and the Chiral Magnetic Effect

Dmitri Kharzeev

Review on double beta decay experiments

Frank Avignone

LHCb Performance, Physics and Prospects

Olaf Steinkamp

Mirror matter

Paolo Crivelli

Neutrino oscillations –
experimental review and prospects

Christos Touramanis

The frequency of elephants in the Galaxy

Ben Moore

   

Lunch

 
   

XENON

Elena Aprile

GammeV: Laser Experiments at Fermilab for WISPs and Other Effects

William Wester

New Generation Axion Helioscope

Igor Irastorza

Late cosmology constraints on thermal relic axions and axion-like particles

Davide Cadamuro

Solar Paraphotons

Sergey Troitsky

The Sun in hidden photons

Javier Redondo

SHIPS

Matthias Schwarz

   

Discussion on the presented topics

Andreas Ringwald

 

Wednesday 29/06/2011

Title/Topic

Speaker

Excursion

 
   

Lunch

 
   

Dark Forces and Dark Matter in a Hidden Sector

Sarah Andreas

Searches for New Phenomena at Jefferson Lab.

Keith Baker

Optical probes of the quantum vacuum: The polarisation tensor in external fields

Felix Karbstein

CDEX/TEXONO: Dark Matter Searches with sub-keV Germanium Detector

Hau-Bin Li

XMASS

Yasuhiro Kishimoto

The BaRBE project and the perspectives of TES sensors in WISP searches

Giovanni Cantatore

Novel WISP searches

Axel Lindner

Public Lecture downtown Mykonos

Yannis Semertizidis

 

Thursday 30/06/2011

Title/Topic

Speaker

ALPS

Eike von Seggern

BOREXINO:
Search for 5.5 MeV solar axions

Alexander Derbin /
Valentina Muratova

Hidden Photon as Dark Matter Candidate

Paola Arias-Reyas

Solar flares as harbinger of new physics

Konstantin Zioutas

CDMS

Bernard Sadoulet

Cosmogenic and Radiogenic Backgrounds: Generalized Tools for Underground Experiments

Priscilla Cushman

CRESST

Raimund Strauß

Probing low-mass WIMPs with liquid xenon

Aaron Manalaysay

   

WIMP Dark Matter Discussion

Gianfranco Bertone

   

Lunch

 
   

Indirect Dark Matter search with H.E.S.S.

Giovanni Lamanna

Solar Chameleons with an introduction to their connection to dark energy

Philippe Brax

Prospects for dark matter searches with CTA

Emmanuel Moulin

Photon propagation in a cold axion background with and without magnetic fields

Domenec Espriu

New constraints on very light pseudoscalars

Alexandre Payez

GridPix TPCs and their application in Dark Matter and Double Beta Decay Experiments

Harry Van Der Graaf

BMV / XAX experiment

Rémy Battesti

   

Dinner at the Hotel

 

 

Friday 1/07/2011

Title/Topic

Speaker

ATLAS results on SUSY

Bilge Demirkoz

CDM from strongly interacting hidden sector

Pyungwon Ko

Search for resonant absorption of solar axions by atomic nuclei

Evgeniy Unzhakov

SPHINX

Szymon Gburek

DARWIN

Marc Schumann

   

Summary

Joerg Jaeckel

Final Words

 
   

5th Axion Strategy meeting

Giovanni Cantatore

   

Lunch

 

 

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