IOP HALF-DAY JOINT
MEETING
HIGH-ENERGY PHYSICS
& ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS GROUPS
SEARCHING FOR DARK MATTER
UNDERGROUND AND AT THE LHC
Imperial College London
Tuesday 2nd December 2008
Overview
This meeting
will review the present status and future plans for WIMP dark matter searches
in the UK and help articulate these experiments with the imminent turn-on of
the Large Hadron Collider. Everyone is welcome, with Ph.D. students especially
encouraged. Since we expect a mixed audience, with attendees from different
fields, presentations should be accessible to all.
Both
theoretical and experimental activity will be discussed, explicitly addressing
the approaches taken by the LHC and by underground detectors. Interestingly,
these two completely different approaches are now at the stage where they can
probe the most interesting models of WIMP physics, providing complementary
tests of theory as well as of indirect search data. Consequently, this is an
ideal time to review predictions and revisit timescales on both sides.
Programme
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13:30 |
Henrique Araujo |
Welcome |
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13:30 |
Subir Sarkar |
Discovering dark matter |
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14:00 |
Leszek Roszkowski |
Dark matter searches in MSSM and other scenarios |
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14:30 |
Steve King |
Neutralino dark matter in non-universal and non-minimal SUSY models |
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15:00 |
Yudi Santoso |
Gravitino and axino dark matter at colliders |
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15:30 |
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Tea break |
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16:00 |
Dan Tovey |
Dark matter searches at the LHC |
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16:30 |
Hans Kraus |
Direct searches with cryogenic detectors |
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17:00 |
Tim Sumner |
Direct searches with the noble liquids |
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17:30 |
Sean Paling |
Direct directional searches |
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18:00 |
Nigel Smith |
Summary |
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18:10 |
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Adjourn |
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Organising Committee
Dr Henrique Araujo
(Imperial, STFC/RAL)
Dr Alex Murphy (Edinburgh)
Prof Nigel Smith (STFC/RAL)
Prof Tim Sumner (Imperial)
Registration
Registration is free but
please do register
by emailing h.araujo-at-imperial.ac.uk
or we may run out of space and coffee
Location
Blackett Laboratory, Prince Consort
Road
Lecture Theatre 3 (Level 1)
How to get to Imperial College
& Blackett
Laboratory
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