Name: Dark Interactions: Perspectives from Theory and Experiment
Start: 2014-06-11T08:45:00-04:00
End: 2014-06-13T12:30:00-04:00
Location: Brookhaven National Laboratory

Monday 9 June 2014
Tuesday 10 June 2014
Wednesday 11 June 2014

08:45

08:45 - 09:00
Room: Physics Department, Bldg. 510, Large Seminar Room
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Physics Department, Bldg. 510, Large Seminar Room
Contributions

09:00 Theoretical Motivation for New Weakly Coupled States (includes axions, sub-MeV dark photons, ALPs, etc.) - Neal Weiner (NYU)

09:40 Theory and Phenomenology of Dark Vector Bosons - David Morrissey (TRIUMF)

10:20 Discussion
10:30 Break
Break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Physics Department, Bldg. 510, Large Seminar Room
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Physics Department, Bldg. 510, Large Seminar Room
Contributions

11:00 Dark Light - Charles Epstein (MIT)

11:20 APEX - The APrime EXperiment at Jefferson Lab - James Beacham (New York University)

11:40 HPS -- The Heavy Photon Search Experiment at JLab - John A Jaros (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

12:00 Mainz MAMI - Michael Distler (University Mainz, Germany)

12:20 Discussion
12:30 Workshop Group Photo
Workshop Group Photo
12:30 - 12:40
Room: Physics Department, Bldg. 510, Large Seminar Room

12:40 Lunch
Lunch
12:40 - 14:00
Room: Physics Department, Bldg. 510, Large Seminar Room
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Physics Department, Bldg. 510, Large Seminar Room
Contributions

14:00 Theory motivation for sub-GeV DM + searches at proton beam dumps - Brian Batell (University of Chicago)

14:30 Electron Beam Dump Experiments - Philip Schuster (Perimeter Institute)

14:55 Direct Detection Prospects - Jeremy Mardon (Stanford)

15:20 Discussion
15:30 Break
Break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Physics Department, Bldg. 510, Large Seminar Room
16:00
16:00 - 17:40
Room: Physics Department, Bldg. 510, Large Seminar Room
Contributions

16:00 Search for Dark Photons and Higgs at BaBar - David Brown (University of Louisville)

16:20 Belle/Belle II - Igal Jaegle (University of Hawaii at Manoa)

16:40 Meson-Decay Experiments - Elizabeth Worcester (BNL)

17:00 PHENIX Searches for Low Mass Dark Photons - Yorito Yamaguchi (University of Tokyo)

17:20 Muon g-2 and dark parity violation - Hye-Sung Lee (College of William and Mary / Jefferson Lab)
18:00

18:00 - 19:00
Room: Physics Department, Bldg. 510, Large Seminar Room
Thursday 12 June 2014
09:00
09:00 - 10:40
Room: Physics Department, Bldg. 510, Large Seminar Room
Contributions

09:00 Exotic Higgs Decays (theory, various models) - Ze'ev Surujon (Stony Brook University)

09:30 Higgs decays to exotic particles at CMS - Aysen Tatarinov (Texas A&M University)

09:55 Higgs decays to exotic particles at ATLAS - Stefano Giagu (Sapienza University of Rome)

10:20 Charged Higgs probes of dark bosons - Kyoungchul Kong (University of Kansas)
10:40 Break
Break
10:40 - 11:10
Room: Physics Department, Bldg. 510, Large Seminar Room
11:10
11:10 - 12:30
Room: Physics Department, Bldg. 510, Large Seminar Room
Contributions

11:10 Dark Matter searches at ATLAS - Steven Schramm (University of Toronto)

11:30 Dark Matter Searches at CMS - Jordan Damgov (Texas Tech University)

11:50 Searches for Hidden Valleys at ATLAS - Gordon Watts (University of Washington)

12:10 Searches for Hidden Valleys at CMS - John Paul Chou (Rutgers University)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Physics Department, Bldg. 510, Large Seminar Room
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Physics Department, Bldg. 510, Large Seminar Room
Contributions

14:00 SUSY Dark Matter searches at CMS - Fedor Ratnikov (Inst. für Exp. Kernphysik)

14:20 SUSY Dark Matter searches at ATLAS - Estel Perez Codina (TRIUMF)

14:40 Search for exotic particles at LHCb - James Philip Ilten (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

15:00 Dark Photon Searches at ALICE - Taku Gunji (Center for Nuclear Study, the University of Tokyo)

15:20 Discussion
15:30 Break
Break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Physics Department, Bldg. 510, Large Seminar Room
16:00
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Physics Department, Bldg. 510, Large Seminar Room
Contributions

16:00 Dark Matter Direct Detections - Kathryn Zurek (University of Michigan)

16:30 Dark matter annihilations in the Galactic Center - Dan Hooper (Fermilab)

17:00 CMB Constraints on Dark Matter Annihilation - Neelima Sehgal (Stony Brook University)

17:20 Discussion
18:30 Workshop Dinner
Workshop Dinner
18:30 - 21:30
Room: The Fifth Season 34 E. Broadway Port Jefferson, NY
Friday 13 June 2014
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Physics Department, Bldg. 510, Large Seminar Room
Contributions

09:00 Black hole portal into hidden valleys - Sergei Dubovsky (New York University)

09:30 ADMX - Benjamin Brubaker (Yale University)

09:55 Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment (CASPEr) - Surjeet Rajendran (Stanford)

10:20 Discussion
10:30 Break
Break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Physics Department, Bldg. 510, Large Seminar Room
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Physics Department, Bldg. 510, Large Seminar Room
Contributions

11:00 Neutrinos and hidden physics (sterile neutrinos) - Bryce Littlejohn (University Of Cincinnati)

11:30 Cosmology probes of dark sectors - Kendrik Smith (Perimeter Institute)

12:00 Concluding remarks and outlook - Maxim Pospelov (University of Victoria)