Organizing Committee:

Vassilis Anastassopoulos
(University of Patras)

Laura Baudis
(University of Zurich)

Joerg Jaeckel
(University of Heidelberg)

Axel Lindner
(DESY)

Andreas Ringwald
(DESY)

Marc Schumann
(University of Bern)

Uwe Oberlack
(Chairman, University of Mainz)

Konstantin Zioutas
(University of Patras)


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Scientific Programme

The 9th Patras Workshop on Axions, WIMPs and WISPs

will be held at Schloss Waldthausen, Mainz Germany

Evening Reception: 24 June 2013.

Scientific Programme: 24 - 28 June 2013.

Detailed workshop agenda:

(as of 25 June 2013)
Posters
  Title Presenter 

Search for solar axions produced by Compton process and bremsstrahlung

A. V. Derbin

Search for axioelectric effect of 5.5 MeV solar axions using BGO detectors

V. N. Muratova

 

 

Monday 24/06/2013

Time

Title/Topic

Speaker

07:30 - 08:30

Breakfast & Registration

 

08:30 - 08:40

Welcome

U. Oberlack

08:40 - 09:15

Axion-like particles from string compactifications

M. Cicoli

09:15 - 09:35

Progress of the laser-based experiment OSQAR

M. Sulc

09:35 - 09:55

What's new in ALPS-II

B. Döbrich

09:55 - 10:15

New light on Dark Photons

J. Pradler

10:15 - 10:40

Coffee break

 

10:40 - 11:05

Dark photon searches: Introduction & searches with MAMI and MESA

A. Denig

11:05 - 11:25

Theoretical framework for analysis of hidden light gauge boson searches

T. Beranek

11:25 - 11:45

Searching for the heavy photon at JLab

M. Holtrop

11:45 - 12:05

Hidden photons in extra dimensions

C. Wallace

12:05 - 12:25

Search for hidden-sector scalar bosons in X→γγ channel with intense electron beams

A. Gasparian

12:25 - 13:55

Lunch

 

13:55 - 14:30

Planck's messages for fundamental physics

F.Couchot

14:30 - 14:55

Chameleons DarkSide50 Experiment – near and far

A. Weltman

14:55 - 15:20

Topological Defect Dark Matter

M. Pospelov

15:20 - 15:40

Dark Energy Survey and WISPs

W. Wester

15:40 - 16:00

Coffee break

 

16:05 - 16:30

Axioelectric effect and other manifestations of Dark matter and Dark energy in laboratory experiments

V. Flambaum

16:30 - 16:50

ADMX phase II: Status and expected performance

D. Tanner / P. Sikivie

16:50 - 17:10

Status report of the CERN microwave axion experiment

M. Betz

17:10 - 17:30

Status of the microwave LSW experiments of the CASCADE collaboration 

M. Kalliokoski

17:30 - 17:50

Hidden Sector Photon Cavity Experiments at UWA

S. Parker

17:50 - 19:00

Reception

 

19:00 - 19:30

Dinner

 

 

Tuesday 25/06/13

Time

Title/Topic

Speaker

07:30 - 08:30

Breakfast

 

08:30 - 09:00

Status of Higgs measurements at the LHC

T. Davidek

09:00 - 09:25

Higgs and inflation

O. Lebedev

09:25 - 09:50

Sterile neutrino dark matter

M. Lindner

09:50 - 10:15

The GERDA Experiment for the Search of Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay

M. Walter

10:15 - 10:40

Coffee break

 

10:40 - 11:20

WIMP dark matter & halo-independent analysis of direct detection data

P. Gondolo

11:20 - 11:40

Results from DAMA/LIBRA and perspectives

R. Cerulli

11:40 - 12:00

Annual modulation study of dark matter using CsI(Tl) crystals in the KIMS experiment

J.H. Choi

12:00 - 12:25

Direct dark matter search with XENON

T. Marrodán Undagoitia

12:25 - 13:55

Lunch

 

13:55 - 14:30

Magnetic reconnection in the Sun

J. Büchner

14:30 - 14:50

Status and perspectives of the CAST experiment

B. Lakic

14:50 - 15:05

Recent bounds on solar hidden photons obtained at CAST

G. Cantatore

15:05 - 15.30

Search for bremsstrahlung solar axions with a low background point-contact Ge-detector

F. Avignone

15:30 - 15:50

Comparison of SphinX and XRT instruments observations during very low solar activity

S. Gburek

15:50 - 16:15

Coffee break

 

16:15 - 16:35

Search for dark matter with BABAR

W. Gradl

16:35 - 16:55

Dark phonton and Higgs-strahlung channels searches at Belle

I. Jaegle

16:55 - 17:15

Constraining the Axion-Photon Coupling with Massive Stars

M. Giannotti

17:15 - 17:35

WISPers from the dark side: Radio probes of Hidden Photons and Axions

A. Lobanov

17:35 - 17:55

Hints of a cosmic axion background

D. Marsh

17:55 - 18:15

IAXO - the future axion helioscope

B. Lakic

18:15 - 19:30

Dinner

 
Wednesday 26/06/13

Time

Title/Topic

Speaker

07:30 - 08:30

Breakfast

 

08:30 - 09:05

Lighting up the dark in the Milky Way and the Local Group

G. van de Ven

09:05 - 09:30

The EDELWEISS-III dark matter search program

V. Kozlov

09:30 - 09:55

Recent Results from CDMS II, Status and Future of SuperCDMS

S. Scorza

09:55 - 10:15

Limits on spin-indepentent coupling of WIMP dark matter with a p-type point contact germanium detector

H.B. Li

10:15 - 10:35

Coffee break

 

10:35 - 10:55

Overview on low flux detectors

J.E. von Seggern

10:55 - 11:15

TES-based photon detectors for WISP searches

G. Cantatore

11:15 - 11:35

Transition-Edge Detector at ALPS-II

J. Dreyling-Eschweiler

11:35 - 11:55

Techniques for the stabilization of the ALPS-II optical cavities

R. Bähre

11:55 - 12:15

Optomechanics and astroparticle physics

M. Karuza

12:15 - 13:15

Lunch 

 
13:15

Bus Departure 

 

13:20 - 19:30

Social Event 

 

19:30 - 23:00

Social Dinner 

 

Thursday 27/06/13

Time

Title/Topic

Speaker

07:30 - 08:30

Breakfast

 

08:30 - 08:55

Axions and the galactic angular momentum distribution

P. Sikivie

08:55 - 09:15

Axion searches with the EDELWEISS Ge bolometers

C. Nones

09:15 - 09:35

3He/129Xe clock comparison experiment: search for spin-dependent short-range interaction

K. Tullney

09:35 - 09:55

The galactic globular cluster M5 as a particle physics laboratory: axion-electron coupling

N. Viaux

09:55 -10:15

Extended axion electrodynamics, relic axions and dark matter fingerprints in the terrestrial e.m. field

A. Balakin

10:15 - 10:25

Conference Photo

 

10:25 -10:40

Coffee break

 

10:40 - 11:05

Nuclear physics uncertainties in direct detection

A. Schwenk

11:05 - 11:30

Suppressing isocurvature perturbations of QCD axion dark matter

K. S. Jeong

11:30 - 11:50

Singlet portal extensions of the standard seesaw models to a dark sector with local dark symmetry

P. Ko

11:50 - 12:25

Results from AMS-02

H. Gast

12:25 - 13:55

Lunch

 

13:55 - 14:25

Dark matter and SUSY searches at the LHC

S. Wayand

14:25 - 14:45

Status of the DarkSide50 Experiment

B. Reinhold

14:45 - 15:05

Status of the PandaX Dark Matter Experiment

K. Ni

15:05 - 15:25 

Directional detection of dark matter with MIMAC

J. Lamblin

15:25 - 15:45

Recent progress on the directional dark matter detector DCube

I. Jaegle

15:45 - 16:05

Extending dark matter searches with a spherical TPC

J. Galan

16:05 - 16:30

Coffee break

 

16:30 - 16:50

Hidden photons and the Aharanov-Bohm effect

P. Arias

16:50 - 17:10

Axion/axino dark matter in Peccei- Quinn violating minimal supergravity

C. Balazs

17:10 - 17:30

New developments in Hidden Photon Dark Matter

J. Cembranos

17:30 - 17:50

New manifestations of the dark universe

K. Zioutas

17:50 - 18:10

Mirror matter can alleviate the cosmological lithium problem

A. Coc

18:10 - 18:30

Yale dark matter axion and paraphoton searches

A. Malagon

18:30 - 22:00

BBQ Dinner

 
Friday 28/06/13

Time

Title/Topic

Speaker

07:30 - 08:30

Breakfast

 

08:30 - 09:05

Dark matter searches with Fermi

M. Gustafsson

09:05 - 09:30

Search for hidden photons with Sumico

Y. Inoue

09:30 - 09:50

Results & status of the Solar Hidden Photon Search (SHIPS)

M. Schwarz

09:50 - 10:15

Results of a search for paraphotons with intense x–ray beams at Spring–8

T. Inada

10:15 - 10:40

Coffee break

 

10:40 - 11:00

Pair-production opacity at high and veryhigh gamma-ray energies

D. Horns

11:00 - 11:20

Polarimetric constraints on axion-like particles

A. Payez

11:20 - 11:40

Very-highenergy quasars hint at ALPs

M. Roncadelli

11:40 - 12:00

Constraints on axion-like particles from the high-energy universe

D. Wouters

12:00 - 12:20

Propagation of axions and photons in an axion condensate

D. Espriu

12:20 - 12:40

Summary from the workshop “Dark matter: a light move”

J. Redondo

12:40 - 12:45

Conclusion

 

12:45 - 14:00

Lunch