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:

Workshop Agenda (99KB)

(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