Name: Dark Matter Interpretations for Direct Detection
Start: 2016-08-09T08:00:00+01:00
End: 2016-08-09T21:45:00+01:00
Location: Lincoln College, Oxford

Dark Matter Interpretations for Direct Detection

Tuesday 9 August 2016 - 08:00

Monday 8 August 2016
Tuesday 9 August 2016
09:30
09:30 - 12:30
Contributions

09:30 Welcome/Intro

09:50 SuperCDMS @ EFT - David G. Cerdeño (IPPP, Durham University)

10:20 Non-relativistic effective theory approach to dark matter direct detection - Riccardo Catena

11:20 An Effective Field Theory Analysis of the LUX Dark Matter Search - Nicole Larsen

11:50 Renormalization group effects in Dark Matter direct detection - Fady Bishara (University of Oxford)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
13:30
13:30 - 17:50
Contributions

13:30 Dark matter effective field theory scattering in the XE100 detector - Ran Itay

14:00 Prospects for dark matter detection with inelastic transitions of xenon - Christopher McCabe

14:30 Leading corrections to spin-independent WIMP scattering off nuclei - Javier Menéndez

15:30 EFT/simplified models - Uli Haisch (Oxford University)

16:00 Impact of astrophysical uncertainties on WIMP direct detection - Anne Green (University of Nottingham)

16:30 Quantifying compatibility among WIMP direct search data in a halo-independent way - Ji-haeng Huh

17:00 Dark Matter Detectors and the Neutrino Wall - Malcolm Fairbairn

17:30 closeout/discussion
19:00 Workshop Dinner
Workshop Dinner
19:00 - 21:30

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