CF1. Dark matter: Particle-like Kickoff Meeting

Friday 26 Jun 2020, 10:00 → 11:00 US/Pacific

Kickoff meeting for Snowmass CF1 activities. Zoom link is here:

https://smu.zoom.us/j/96941476644?pwd=T0pWRHNBYTV0NzBnTWtwQldOekNIUT09

We would like to invite you to participate in the public kick-off meeting of the Snowmass Cosmic Frontier “CF1. Dark Matter: Particle-like" Topical Group on June 26, at 1 pm Eastern time, 10 am Pacific time. For experimentalists, please also circulate this invitation in your collaborations. The agenda and zoom coordinates can be found here: 

https://indico.fnal.gov/event/43903/

 

The CF1 topical group focuses on dark matter in the regime where it appears to cosmic frontier experiments/observatories as individual quanta. In particular, this topical group includes direct and indirect detection methods (and to some extent accelerator-based methods, although those are largely covered in other topical groups and frontiers). We draw the “particle-like” vs. “wave-like” boundary at a dark matter mass around 1 eV, with searches for sub-eV dark matter handled by the second CF group, CF2, and heaver dark matter covered in CF1 (this group). More details will be eventually found at the wiki page:

https://snowmass21.org/cosmic/dm_particle

The goal of the kickoff meeting will be to describe the process as we see it from CF1, get a broad picture of the scope of possible efforts that might fit into this topical group, prepare for a series of more focused meetings to follow this summer on particular aspects of particle-like dark matter, and get initial feedback from the community.. 

To gauge the interest of the community and help organize those meetings, if you are interested in particle-like dark matter in any way, please fill out the following questionnaire: 

https://forms.gle/M2GEoMfqCYpdhNSb8

In the meantime, make sure you sign up for our email list if you haven’t already, and also join the snowmass slack channels - we will move to exclusively using those forms of communication after this blast email. Details on how to join can be found on the wiki: 

https://snowmass21.org/cosmic/start#communications

Also, we hope that you are already thinking about your LOIs and white papers, and we will certainly discuss those topics at the meeting. The CF conveners have prepared a template for LOIs that may be useful, found here:

 

https://snowmass21.org/cosmic/start#submissions

Best,
Jodi Cooley (SMU), Tongyan Lin (UCSD), Hugh Lippincott (UCSB), Tracy Slatyer (MIT), 
Co-conveners of CF1

Meeting Materials

• 200626-SNOWMASS-CF1-chat.pdf
• 200626-SNOWMASS-CF1.mp4
• CF1. Dark Matter Particle-Like Kick-off Meeting Slides.pdf
• Real-time minutes for 6_26 kickoff meeting.pdf

10:00 → 10:10 Logistics

Speakers: Hugh Lippincott (UCSB), Jodi Cooley (SMU), Tongyan Lin (UCSD), Tracy Slatyer (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

CF1. Dark Matter Particle-Like Kick-off Meeting.pdf

10:10 → 10:30 Direct Detection Discussion

Discussion of Direct Detection Landscape

10:30 → 10:50 Indirect Detection Discussion

Discussion of Indirect Detection Discussion

10:50 → 11:00 Summary