CMS - IPPP Senior Experimental Fellowship Meeting on Dark Matter

8 Dec 2014, 14:00 → 10 Dec 2014, 14:00 Europe/London

G10/11 (8 - 10 Berkeley Square)

Henning Flaecher (University of Bristol), Oliver Buchmueller, Valentin V Khoze (IPPP)

Monday, 8 December

1 Welcome

Speaker: Henning Flaecher (University of Bristol)

Slides Welcome-IPPP-CMS-SEF.pdf

Higgs Portal Models

Conveners: Henning Flaecher (University of Bristol), Dr Jim Brooke (Bristol), Sarah Malik (Imperial College)

2 Lessons learned from reinterpretation of CMS Higgs to invisible search

Speakers: Dominic Smith (University of Bristol), Dr Jim Brooke (Bristol)

Slides 1404.1344.pdf InvHiggs_Bristol_IPPP_Workshop_8_12_2014_FINAL.pdf

3 gg fusion mono-jet and multijet + met constraints on Hinv

Speaker: Sarah Malik (Imperial College)

Slides hinvisiblebristol.pdf

15:40 Tea/Coffee

4 Simplified Models for Hinv searches/Higgs portal models

Speaker: Prof. Valentin V Khoze (IPPP)

Paper 1405.3530v1.pdf

Slides 1205.3169v3.pdf

Tuesday, 9 December

Simplified Models for Dark Matter

Conveners: Dr Emanuele Re (IPPP, Durham University), Oliver Buchmueller (Imperial College), Philip Harris (CERN), Sarah Malik (Imperial College), Prof. Valentin V Khoze (IPPP)

5 Scalar, pseudo-scalar and other simplified models for DM searches

Speakers: Ciaran Williams (IPPP), Dorival Goncalves (IPPP Durham), Philip Harris (CERN)

Slides

• aT_vs_MT2.png
• DMbristol.pdf
• dorival_bristol.pdf
• PCH_SimplifiedModel_07_12.pdf

10:30 Tea/Coffee

Tools for Simplified Model production

Conveners: Ciaran Williams (IPPP), Emanuele Re (University of Oxford), Oliver Buchmueller (Imperial College), Philip Harris (CERN), Prof. Valentin V Khoze (IPPP)

6 Tools for SM production: MCGM, POWHEG etc.

Speakers: Ciaran Williams (IPPP), Dr Emanuele Re (IPPP, Durham University), Philip Harris (CERN)

Slides

• EmanueleRe.pdf
• sms1.pdf
• sms-malik.pdf

12:30 Lunch

Complementarity: Collider DM searches but also direct/indirect searches

Conveners: Bjoern Penning (Imperial College), Christopher McCabe (GRAPPA, University of Amsterdam), Sarah Malik (Imperial College)

7 Complementarity between different collider signatures

Slides dm_complementarity.pdf

15:30 Tea/Coffee

8 Complementarity between experiments

Wednesday, 10 December

New Ideas for DM searches and interpretations

Conveners: Bjoern Penning (Imperial College), Christopher McCabe (GRAPPA, University of Amsterdam), Oliver Buchmueller (Imperial College), Prof. Valentin V Khoze (IPPP)

9 Multi-component DM / boosted objects incl. bosons / asymmetric DM

10:30 Tea/Coffee

10 Light mass mediators / determining DM couplings at LHC / compatibility of galactic centre excess with popular BSM models