Unravelling the Dark Matter Mystery

12 Mar 2018, 09:00 → 16 Mar 2018, 14:00 Europe/London

IPPP, Durham University

Nassim Bozorgnia (IPPP), David G. Cerdeño (IPPP, Durham University), Francesc Ferrer

The purpose of this workshop is to discuss and share new developments, experimental and theoretical, that can shed light on the nature of the dark matter in the Universe.

To facilitate the interaction between participants we plan to have a limited number of talks (one in the morning and one in the afternoon) followed by in depth discussion.

We will focus on a small number of areas/projects including:

• Detection of low-mass dark matter.
• Self-interacting dark matter.
• Velocity dependent dark-matter annihilation.
• Axion miniclusters

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The meeting will take place in four different locations (due to space limitations), please check the timetable and the following map to find the right room!

https://drive.google.com/open?id=18su0qJSvlnD1lc3yCSsHhiQbDX4eZVbp&usp=sharing

• MONDAY
  Lindisfarne Centre (morning)
  James Knott Room (afternoon)
   
• TUESDAY
  Van Mildert College 
   
• WEDNESDAY
  James Knott Room (morning)
  IPPP, OC218 (afternoon)
   
• THURSDAY
  Van Mildert College (morning)
  IPPP, OC218 (afternoon)
   
• FRIDAY
  James Knott Room

 

Monday, 12 March

09:30 Registration and Coffee

1 Introduction

Speaker: Nassim Bozorgnia

Introduction.pdf

2 Sub-GeV thermal relics and indirect detection

Speaker: Francesco d'Eramo

3 Signatures of Earth-scattering in the direct detection of sub-GeV Dark Matter

Speaker: Riccardo Catena

durham2018.pdf

15:30 Coffee

Tuesday, 13 March

09:30 Coffee

4 Axion Miniclusters

Speaker: Thomas Schwetz

MiniCluster-Durham.pdf

5 Indirect detection of DM with velocity dependent interactions

Speaker: Francesc Ferrer

dmferrer.pdf

15:30 Coffee

19:30 Workshop Dinner

Wednesday, 14 March

09:30 Coffee

6 Self-interacting dark matter: model building

Speaker: Bryan Zaldivar

zaldivar_modbuilding.pdf

7 Self-interacting dark matter simulations

Speaker: Andrew Robertson

Unravelling_the_DM_mystery_Andrew_Robertson.pdf

15:30 Coffee

Thursday, 15 March

09:30 Coffee

8 Search for light Dark Matter with NEWS-G

Speaker: Kostas Nikolopoulos (University of Birmingham)

20180315_kn_Durham.pdf

11:30 Excursion

IPPP Seminar: On the robustness of the primordial power spectrum in renormalized Higgs inflation

9 RAPIDD tutorial: a quick look at a new tool for direct detection analysis

Speaker: Andrew Cheek (IPPP, Durham University)

Pres_upload.zip

15:30 Coffee

Friday, 16 March

09:30 Coffee

10 Round Table Discussion