Name: U.S. Cosmic Visions: New Ideas in Dark Matter
Start: 2017-03-23T08:00:00-04:00
End: 2017-03-25T13:04:00-04:00
Location: Stamp Student Union, University of Maryland, College Park

U.S. Cosmic Visions: New Ideas in Dark Matter

from Thursday, 23 March 2017 (08:00) to Saturday, 25 March 2017 (13:04)

Monday, 20 March 2017
Tuesday, 21 March 2017
Wednesday, 22 March 2017
Thursday, 23 March 2017

08:00 Coffee & registration
Coffee & registration
08:00 - 08:45
Room: Lobby and Atrium
08:45
08:45 - 10:30
Room: Atrium
Contributions

08:45 Welcome

08:55 DOE/HEP dark matter program - Kathy Turner (DOE Office of High Energy Physics)

09:20 WG4 Light DM, Targets, and Complementarity - Neal Weiner (Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics, New York University)

09:55 Accelerator Searches for Sub-GeV DM: Science Case and Overview - Gordan Krnjaic (Fermilab)
10:30 Break
Break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Atrium
11:00
11:00 - 12:10
Room: Atrium
Contributions

11:00 Direct Detection Searches for meV-to- GeV Dark Matter: Science Case and Overview - Tongyan Lin (UC Berkeley)

11:35 Sub-meV Ultralight Dark Matter: Science case and Overview - Surjeet Rajendran (UC Berkeley)
12:10 Lunch
Lunch
12:10 - 13:10
Room: Colony Ballroom
13:10 New directions in direct detection
New directions in direct detection
13:10 - 15:40
Room: Juan Ramon Jimenez Room
Contributions

13:10 Intro and Discussion of Goals for WG1 - Daniel McKinsey (University of California, Berkeley) Juan Estrada (FNAL) Rouven Essig (Stony Brook University)

13:40 Germanium Detector with Sensitivity to MeV-Scale Dark Matter - Dongming Mei (University of South Dakota)

14:10 2D-graphene/PTOLEMY - Chris Tully (Princeton University)

14:40 PICO - Andrew Sonnenschein (Fermilab)

15:10 NEWSdm - Antonia Di Crescenzo (University of Napoli and INFN)
Ultra-low mass (sub-eV) dark matter detection
Ultra-low mass (sub-eV) dark matter detection
13:10 - 15:40
Room: Atrium
Contributions

13:10 Searching for dark matter axions with ADMX-G2 and beyond - Gray Rybka (University of Washington)

13:45 HAYSTAC - Karl van Bibber (University of California Berkeley)

14:20 Ultra-High Field Solenoids and Axion Detection - Mark Bird
13:10 - 15:40
Room: Banneker A Room
Contributions

13:10 Accelerator Complementarity - Philip Schuster (SLAC)

13:35 Non-accelerator probes of light bosons: the 8Be Anomaly & a protophobic 5th force - Iftah Galon (UC Irvine)

14:00 HPS First Results - Omar Moreno (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

14:25 Non-abelian sectors at fixed targets - Nikita Blinov (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

14:50 Sensitivity of neutrino facilities to leptophobic Z' and DM - Claudia Frugiuele (Fermilab)

15:15 Discussion
15:40 Break
Break
15:40 - 16:00
Room: Atrium
16:00 New avenues in direct detection
New avenues in direct detection
16:00 - 18:30
Room: Juan Ramon Jimenez Room
Contributions

16:00 Electron recoil backgrounds in Xenon TPCs - Peter Sorensen (LBL)

16:30 DAMIC - Paolo Privitera (University of Chicago)

17:00 SENSEI - Javier Tiffenberg (Fermilab)

17:30 Scintillating bubble chamber - Eric Dahl (University of Chicago) Matthew Szydagis (UC Davis)

18:00 CYGNUS Gas Time Projection Chamber - Sven Vahsen (University of Hawaii)
Ultra-low mass (sub-eV) dark matter detection
Ultra-low mass (sub-eV) dark matter detection
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Atrium
Contributions

16:00 Higher fields for axion cavity searches and lower frequency axion searches with an LC circuit - David Tanner (University of Florida)

16:35 DM radio - Kent Irwin (Stanford University and SLAC)

17:10 ABRACADABRA: A Broadband Search Axion Dark Matter - Jonathan Ouellet (MIT)

17:45 Discussion
Introduction + Current constraints
Introduction + Current constraints
16:00 - 18:30
Room: Banneker A Room
Contributions

16:00 Introduction - Bertrand Echenard (Caltech) Eder Izaguirre (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

16:10 Dark sector at Muon beam dump - Yiming Zhong (Boston University)

16:30 Finding ~1.5 GeV Dark Matter with a ~5 GeV/c K- beam, as a missing-mass peak in K- p -> anti-Lambda + DM - Glennys Farrar (NYU)

16:50 Current and future results from MiniBooNE-DM - Robert Cooper (Indiana University)

17:20 Recent results from NA64 - Dipanwita Banerjee (ETH Zurich)

17:45 Dark sector searches at B-factories and outlook for Belle II - Christopher Hearty (U. British Columbia / IPP)

18:10 Discussion
New Candidates, Targets, and Complementarity
New Candidates, Targets, and Complementarity
16:00 - 18:30
Room: Banneker B Room
Contributions

16:00 Argon dark matter searches: DarkSide-20k and beyond - Mark Boulay (Carleton University)

16:25 Proton radius - Richard Hill (Perimeter Institute)

16:50 8Be and axial vector bosons - Jonathan Kozaczuk (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

17:15 8Be nuclear theory predictions - Xilin Zhang (University of Washington)

17:40 Future 8Be experiments - Rafael Lang (Purdue University)

17:55 Future 8Be experiments - Kyle Leach (Colorado School of Mines)

18:05 Isotope shift spectroscopy - Claudia Frugiuele (Fermilab)

18:15 Discussion
Friday, 24 March 2017

08:00 Coffee
Coffee
08:00 - 08:30
Room: Atrium
08:30
08:30 - 09:30
Room: Atrium
Contributions

08:30 Inputs and questions for other WGs: from WG1 - Daniel McKinsey (University of California, Berkeley) Daniel McKinsey (Yale University) Juan Estrada (FNAL) Rouven Essig (Stony Brook University)

08:40 Inputs and questions for other WGs: from WG2 - Aaron Chou (Fermilab) Peter Graham (Stanford University)

08:50 Inputs and questions for other WGs: from WG3 - Bertrand Echenard (Caltech) Eder Izaguirre (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

09:00 Inputs and questions for other WGs: from WG4 - Jonathan Feng (UC Irvine) Patrick Fox (Fermilab)

09:10 Questions to panel of WG presenters & plenary discussion
09:30 Break
Break
09:30 - 10:00
Room: Atrium
10:00 New avenues in direct detection
New avenues in direct detection
10:00 - 12:30
Room: Juan Ramon Jimenez Room
Contributions

10:00 Sub-GeV DM searches in Semiconductor and Scintillator Targets - Tien-Tien Yu (CERN)

10:20 Superconductors - Yue Zhao (University of Michigan)

10:40 Helium theory - Simon Knapen (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and UC Berkeley)

11:00 Neutrino backgrounds - Louis Strigari (Texas A&M University)

11:20 100-400 eV nuclear recoil calibration via capturing neutrons - Anthony Villano (University of Minnesota)

11:40 NR calibration at TUNL - Phillip Barbeau (Duke University)

12:00 Discussion: Models + Plots
Ultra-low mass (sub-eV) dark matter detection
Ultra-low mass (sub-eV) dark matter detection
10:00 - 12:30
Room: Atrium
Contributions

10:00 Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment (CASPEr) - Alex Sushkov

10:35 Accelerometer Probes for Dark Matter - William Terrano (Technical University of Munich)
New Proposals and facilities I
New Proposals and facilities I
10:00 - 12:30
Room: Banneker A Room
Contributions

10:00 The PADME experiment - Mauro Raggi (Sapienza University Rome)

10:15 The MAGIX experiment at MESA - Stefano Caiazza (KPH Institute - JGU Mainz)

10:30 The SHIP experiment - Antonia Di Crescenzo (University of Napoli and INFN)

10:45 The SeaQuest experiment - Ming Liu (Los Alamos Natinoal Laboratory)

11:05 Signatures of Dark Sectors at SeaQuest - Asher Berlin (SLAC)

11:25 Sub-GeV DM search with COHERENT - Rex Tayloe (Indiana University)

11:45 DRIFT-BDX: A low-energy, low-background, directional search for LDMA - Daniel Snowden-Ifft (Occidental College)

12:05 Discussion
Sub-GeV Models, Thermal relics, and Complementarity
Sub-GeV Models, Thermal relics, and Complementarity
10:00 - 12:30
Room: Banneker B Room
Contributions

10:00 SIMPle DM and Non-Abelian Hidden Sectors - Kimberly Boddy (University of Hawaii)

10:25 SIMPs and ELDERs - Maxim Perelstein (Cornell University)

10:50 Dynamical DM - Keith Dienes (University of Arizona/NSF)

11:15 Inelastic thermal relics - Gordan Krnjaic (Fermilab)

11:40 Axions and WIMPs in Natural SUSY - Howard Baer Baer (University of Oklahoma)

12:05 WG4 discussion
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
Room: Colony Ballroom
13:30 New avenues in direct detection
New avenues in direct detection
13:30 - 15:40
Room: Juan Ramon Jimenez Room
Contributions

13:30 Current and future sensitivity of TES technology/GaAs as a scintillator - matt pyle (University of California Berkeley)

14:00 Cryogenic facility with multiple TES targets - Daniel McKinsey (Yale University)

14:20 NEWS-G - Gilles Gerbier (Saclay)

14:50 Facilities, Fermilab, SNOlab - Enectali Figueroa-Feliciano (Northwestern University)

15:10 NaI/CsI crystals - Jing Liu (University of South Dakota)
Ultra-low mass (sub-eV) dark matter detection
Ultra-low mass (sub-eV) dark matter detection
13:30 - 15:40
Room: Banneker A
Contributions

13:30 Atom interferometry for dark matter and gravitational waves - Jason Hogan

14:05 Atom interferometry - Holger Mueller
New proposals and facilities II
New proposals and facilities II
13:30 - 15:40
Room: Atrium
Contributions

13:30 The LDMX experiment - Tim Nelson (SLAC)

14:05 The DASEL proposal - Tor Raubenheimer (SLAC)

14:35 Future possibilities at Proton fixed target experiments - Richard Van de Water (LANL)

15:05 Very asymmetric collider for DM searches below 1 GeV - Vasiliy Morozov (Jefferson Lab)

15:25 Discussion
Astrophysics Complementarity and Targets
Astrophysics Complementarity and Targets
13:30 - 15:40
Room: Banneker B
Contributions

13:30 Small scale structure - Peter Annika (The Ohio State University)

13:50 Self-interacting DM - HAI-BO YU (UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN) Manoj Kaplinghat (University of California, Irvine)

14:10 CMB - Tracy Slatyer (Institute for Advanced Study)

14:30 Supernovae constraints on dark mediators - Sam McDermott (University of Michigan)

14:50 Search for 10-100 solar mass MACHOs - Will Dawson (UC Davis)

15:10 Discussion
15:40 Break
Break
15:40 - 16:00
Room: Atrium
16:00 New avenues in direct detection
New avenues in direct detection
16:00 - 18:30
Room: Juan Ramon Jimenez Room
Contributions

16:00 Superfluid helium - Scott Hertel (UMass Amherst)

16:30 Field Ionization of Helium for Dark Matter Detection - Derek Stein (Brown University) George Seidel (Brown University)

17:00 Color centers - Ranny Budnik (Weizmann)

17:30 Discussion: Message to the community - Daniel McKinsey (University of California, Berkeley) Daniel McKinsey (Yale University) Juan Estrada (FNAL) Rouven Essig (Stony Brook University)
Ultra-low mass (sub-eV) dark matter detection
Ultra-low mass (sub-eV) dark matter detection
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Banneker A
Contributions

16:00 Searching for solar axions with IAXO: near-term prospects - Michael Pivovaroff (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

16:35 Axion Resonant InterAction Detection Experiment (ARIADNE) - Andrew Geraci (University of Nevada Reno)

17:10 Discussion - Aaron Chou (Fermilab) Peter Graham (Stanford University)
New proposals and facilities III
New proposals and facilities III
16:00 - 18:30
Room: Atrium
Contributions

16:00 The BDX experiment - Andrea Celentano (INFN-Genova)

16:35 Future possibilities at JLab - Arne Freyberger (JLAB-Accelerator Division-Operations Department)

16:55 The DarkLight project - Michael Kohl (Hampton University)

17:10 The MMAPS experiment - Jim Alexander (Cornell University)

17:45 Discussion - Bertrand Echenard (Caltech) Eder Izaguirre (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Complementarity with LHC and Future Experiments
Complementarity with LHC and Future Experiments
16:00 - 18:30
Room: Banneker B Room
Contributions

16:00 ATLAS/CMS and Light DM - Marco Trovato (Northwestern University)

16:20 LHCb and Light DM - Philip Ilten (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

16:40 CTA - Brian Humensky (Columbia University)

17:00 N-mirrorN oscillation - Ben Rybolt (University of Tennessee) Leah Broussard

17:20 Laser-trapped atom search for sterile neutrino dark matter - Jeff Martoff (Temple University)

17:40 Discussion and Preparation for WG4 Closing Plenary Talk - Jonathan Feng (UC Irvine) Patrick Fox (Fermilab)
Saturday, 25 March 2017

08:00 Coffee
Coffee
08:00 - 09:00
Room: Atrium
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Atrium
Contributions

09:00 Closeout talk: WG1 - Daniel McKinsey (University of California, Berkeley) Daniel McKinsey (Yale University) Juan Estrada (FNAL) Rouven Essig (Stony Brook University)

09:30 Closeout talk: WG2 - Aaron Chou (Fermilab) Peter Graham (Stanford University)

10:00 Closeout talk: WG3 - Bertrand Echenard (Caltech) Eder Izaguirre (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
10:30 Break
Break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Atrium
11:00
11:00 - 13:00
Room: Atrium
Contributions

11:00 Closeout talk: WG4 - Jonathan Feng (UC Irvine) Patrick Fox (Fermilab)

11:30 Goals and Logistical organization for whitepaper

11:50 Plenary (+ panel) discussion: Priorities and key messages - Aaron Chou (Fermilab) Bertrand Echenard (Caltech) Daniel McKinsey (University of California, Berkeley) Daniel McKinsey (Yale University) Eder Izaguirre (Brookhaven National Laboratory) Jonathan Feng (UC Irvine) Juan Estrada (FNAL) Patrick Fox (Fermilab) Peter Graham (Stanford University) Rouven Essig (Stony Brook University)
13:00 1-page Summaries
1-page Summaries
13:00 - 13:04
Contributions

13:00 WG1 1-page summaries - Daniel McKinsey (University of California, Berkeley) Daniel McKinsey (Yale University) Juan Estrada (FNAL) Rouven Essig (Stony Brook University)

13:01 WG2 1-page summaries - Aaron Chou (Fermilab) Peter Graham (Stanford University)

13:02 WG3 1-page summaries - Bertrand Echenard (Caltech) Eder Izaguirre (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

13:03 WG4 1-page summaries - Jonathan Feng (UC Irvine) Patrick Fox (Fermilab)