Interplay between Particle and Astroparticle Physics (IPA 2014)

18 Aug 2014, 08:00 → 22 Aug 2014, 18:00 UTC

Francis Bancroft: David Sizer LT (Queen Mary University of London)

Monday 18 August

08:30 → 09:30 Registration

Registration will take place starting 08:00 in room G07. If you are unable to register first thing in the morning you will be able to try again at coffee and during the lunch break.

The site is eduroam enabled and guest wifi details will be displayed in the meeting room.

09:30 → 11:00 Plenary Session

Convener: Dr A Bevan (Queen Mary)

09:30 Introduction to the workshop

Speaker: Dr A Bevan (Queen Mary)

1_bevan_IntroductionToTheWorkshop.ppt

10:00 Results from H.E.S.S.

Speaker: Prof. Christian Stegmann (DESY)

201408-IPA-London-Stegmann.pdf

10:30 The search for magnetic monopoles

Speaker: Prof. James Pinfold (University of Alberta)

MoEDAL-QMC-August-2014-new-pdf-friendly.pdf

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 → 13:00 Plenary Session

Convener: JR Wilson (Q)

11:30 Phenomenological implications of CP violation

Speaker: Prof. Emi Kou (LAL)

IPA_2014_kou.pdf

12:00 Results from T2K

Speaker: Dr Martin Haigh (Oxford University)

T2K_IPA.pdf

12:30 Results from Daya Bay

Speaker: Prof. Qingmin Zhang (Xi'an Jiaotong University)

Results_from_Dayabay_Neutrino_Experiment.pdf

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:30 Plenary Session

Convener: Dr Brian Wecht (Queen Mary University of London)

14:00 Astrophysical constraints on dark matter

Speaker: Dr Jesús Zavala (Niels Bohr Institute)

IPA_London_August_2014.pdf

14:30 Dark matter searches from Xenon

Speaker: Dr Andrew Brown (Purdue University)

15:00 Dark matter searches with SuperCDMS

Speaker: Dr Wolfgang Rau (Queen's University)

Rau_SuperCDMS_IPA2014.pptx

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 → 18:00 Plenary Session

Convener: Prof. Reza Tavakol (Queen Mary University of London)

16:00 Results from DES

Speaker: Dr Chris D'Andrea (University of Portsmouth)

16:30 Dark Energy with Euclid

Speaker: Dr Benjamin Joachimi (UCL)

joachimi_qmul14.pdf

17:00 Terrestrial tests of Dark Energy

Speaker: Dr Jon Coleman (University of Liverpool)

IPA2014_Coleman.pdf

17:30 Unbinned halo-independent methods for emerging dark matter signals

Speaker: Dr Yoni Kahn (MIT)

Halo-independent_IPA2014.pdf

18:30 → 20:30 Welcome Reception

Adjourn to the senior common room lounge to sample IPA.

Tuesday 19 August

09:00 → 11:00 Plenary Session

Convener: Dr Martin Haigh (University of Warwick)

09:00 Results from Miniboone

Speaker: Dr Teppei Katori (Queen Mary Unviersity of London)

TK_IPA_140819.pdf

09:30 Results from ICE Cube and the prospects for PINGU

Speaker: Dr Jason Koskinen (Niels Bohr Institute)

Koskinen_IceCube_IPA2014.pdf

10:00 The status of SNO+

Speaker: JR Wilson (Q)

IPAwilsonSNOplus.pdf

10:30 The JUNO experiment

Speaker: Prof. Wei Wang (College of William and Mary)

JUNO_WW_rev2.pdf

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 → 13:00 Plenary Session

Convener: Dr M Bona (Queen Mary)

11:30 Exotics searches at ATLAS

Speaker: Ms Ruth Poettgen (JGU Mainz)

IPA2014_ExoticATLAS_Poettgen.pdf

12:00 Exotics searches at CMS

Speaker: Dr Ezio Torassa (NFN Padova)

Torassa_ExoCMS_Londra.ppt

12:30 Overview of the ILC physics case

Speaker: Prof. Tomohiko Tanabe (University of Tokyo)

20140819-QMUL-Tanabe-s.pdf

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:30 Plenary Session

Convener: Prof. James Lidsey (Queen Mary University of London)

14:00 Lorentz breaking effective field theories: phenomenology and constraints

Speaker: Dr Stefano Liberati (SISSA & INFN Trieste)

LIV-IPA2014.pdf

14:30 Searches for gravitational waves

Speaker: Prof. Barry Barish (Caltech)

Barish_LIGO_IPA_London_08-14.pptx.pdf

15:00 Inflation and classical scale invariance

If cosmological inflation is due to a slowly rolling single inflation field taking trans-Planckian values as suggested by the BICEP2 measurement of primordial tensor modes in CMB, embedding inflation into the Standard Model challenges standard paradigm of effective field theories. Together with an apparent absence of Planck scale contributions to the Higgs mass and to the cosmological constant, BICEP2 provides further experimental evidence for the absence of large $M_{\rm P}$ induced operators. We show that classical scale invariance, the paradigm that all fundamental scales in Nature are induced by quantum effects, solves the problem and allows for a remarkably simple scale-free inflaton models without extending the gauge group. Due to trans-Planckian inflaton values and vevs, a dynamically induced Coleman-Weinberg-type inflaton potential of the model can predict tensor-to-scalar ratio $r$ in a large range, converging around the prediction of chaotic $m^2\phi^2$ inflation for a large trans-Planckian value of the inflaton vev. We propose two models: one in which the Planck scale is given by hand and one in which also the Planck scale is generated by quantum effects. Precise determination of $r$ in future experiments will single out a unique scale-free inflation potential, allowing to test the proposed field-theoretic framework.

Speaker: Dr Antonio Racioppi (KBFI)

Racioppi_-_Inflation_and_classical_scale_invariance.pdf

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 → 18:00 Plenary Session

Convener: Prof. Wolfgang Gradl (Mainz)

16:00 Quark CP violation tests from the LHC

LHCb speaker to be allocated

Speaker: Dr Malcolm John (University of Oxford)

MalcolmJohn_IPA2014.pdf

16:30 Quark CP violation test from the B Factories

Speaker: Dr Alexander Kuzmin (BINP)

ipa14_kuzmin.pdf

17:00 Symmetry violation in tau decays

Speaker: Prof. Kiyoshi Hayasaka (Nagoya University)

IPA2014_hayasaka.pdf

17:30 UTfit constraints on CP violation and new physics

Speaker: Dr M Bona (Queen Mary)

bona-utfit-ipa14.pdf

Wednesday 20 August

09:00 → 11:00 Plenary Session

Convener: Dr j Hays (Queen Mary)

09:00 Higgs implications for baryogenesis.

Speaker: Prof. Geraldine Servant (CERN)

LONDON_baryo_axions.pdf

09:30 Leptogenesis in the early universe

Speaker: Prof. Pasquale Di Bari (Southampton University)

QMUL.pdf

10:00 Baryogenesis in the early universe

Speaker: Prof. Csaba Balazs (Monash University)

Baryogenesis.pdf

10:30 Indirect constraints on NP from the B Factories

BaBar speaker to cover this topic

Speaker: Dr Alessandro Gaz (University of Colorado)

IPA_2014_BaBar_v3.pdf

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 → 13:00 Plenary Session

Convener: Dr M Bona (Queen Mary)

11:30 Rare decay searches at the LHC

LHCb speaker assigned to cover results from ATLAS, CMS and LHCb

Speaker: Dr Emanuele Santovetti (Università di Roma Tor Vergata)

IPA2014_santovetti2.pdf

12:00 Modern theory of flavor, 126 GeV scalar and future directions in high energy physics

Speaker: Prof. Amarjit Soni (BNL)

final.ppt

12:30 Model dependent constraints on new physics

Speaker: Prof. David Straub (Excellence Cluster 'Universe', Munich)

dstraub-ipa14.pdf

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 18:30 Tour of the Tower of London

This afternoon will involve a networking event where we will visit the tower of london, an imposing building that forms a significant part of British history. While visiting the tower workshop delegates will be able to engage in creative discussion in a less formal environment.

Thursday 21 August

09:00 → 11:00 Plenary Session

09:00 Results from Alpha

Speaker: Prof. Niels Madsen (Swansea University)

20140821_IPA2014.pdf

09:30 Rare kaon decays

Speaker: Dr Ryan Page (University of Bristol)

IPA_QMUL_RP.pdf

10:00 Results from AMS

Speaker: Prof. Martin Pohl (University of Geneva)

IPA_2014.pdf

10:30 Measurements and implications of of EDMs

Speaker: Prof. W. Clark Griffith (University of Sussex)

Griffith-IPA-EDMs.pdf

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 → 13:00 Plenary Session

Convener: Prof. Amarjit Soni (BNL)

11:30 The physics of SHIP

Speaker: Dr Mitesh Patel (Imperial College)

QMUL_IPA_Aug_2014.pdf

12:00 Indirect searches for dark matter

Speaker: Prof. Jan Conrad (Stockholm University)

2_Conrad_London_IPA_2014.pdf

12:30 Self-Interacting Dark Matter and Sterile Neutrino

We propose a ultraviolet complete theory for cold dark matter(CDM) and sterile neutrinos that can accommodate both cosmological data and neutrino oscillation experiments within $1\sigma$ level. We assume a new U(1)_X dark gauge symmetry which is broken at MeV scale resulting light dark photon. Such a light mediator for DM's self-scattering and scattering-off sterile neutrinos can resolve three controversies for cold DM on small cosmological scales: cusp vs. core, too-big-to-fail and missing satellites problems. We can also accommodate eV scale sterile neutrinos as the hot dark matter(HDM) and can fit some neutrino anomalies from neutrino oscillation experiments within $1\sigma$. Finally the right amount of HDM can make a sizable contribution to dark radiation, and also helps to reconcile the tension between the data on the tensor-to-scalar ratio reported by Planck and BICEP2 Collaborations

Speaker: Dr Yong TANG (KIAS)

IPA_Yong_TANG.pdf

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:30 Plenary Session

Convener: Dr j Hays (Queen Mary)

14:00 Higgs properties and the prospects for CP violation searches

Speaker: Prof. Georg Weiglein (DESY)

ipa_14.pdf

14:30 SUSY searches at CMS

Speaker: Dr Alessandro Gaz (University of Colorado)

IPA_2014_CMS.pdf

15:00 SUSY searches at ATLAS

Speaker: Lucian Stefan Ancu (University of Geneva)

IPA_2014_key_revised.pdf

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 → 18:00 Plenary Session

Convener: Dr j Hays (Queen Mary)

16:00 Dark forces constraints from the B Factories (and low energy experiments)

BaBar speaker to be allocated

Speaker: Prof. Abner Soffer (Tel Aviv University)

Soffer-IPA.pdf

16:30 Results from the Auger Observatory

Speaker: Prof. Alan Watson (University of Leeds)

2014_08__Watson_IPA_QMUL.pptx

17:00 BICEP2 and the Inflationary Gravitational Waves

Speaker: Prof. Anže Slosar (BNL)

pr.pdf

19:00 → 22:00 Workshop dinner

Dinner will be held in the Octagon. This building can be found at the rear of the Queen's Building. Please see http://www.qmul.ac.uk/docs/about/26065.pdf for further details. The Octagon is marked as number 19a; the Queen's building is marked as number 19.

Friday 22 August

09:00 → 11:00 Plenary Session

Convener: Prof. Jocelyn Monroe (Royal Holloway University of London)

09:00 Overview of BOSS, LSST and DESI

Speaker: Prof. Anze Slosar (BNL)

pr-overview.pdf

09:30 Results from Planck

Speaker: Dr Steven Gratton (University of Cambridge)

planck_gratton_ipa2014.pdf

10:00 The LUX direct dark matter search experiment

Speaker: Dr Chamkaur Ghag (UCL)

Ghag_IPA2014.pdf

10:30 Directional Dark Matter Search and Velocity Distribution

Speaker: Nagao Keiko (National Institute of Technology, Niihama College)

20140822_IPAnagao.pdf

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 → 13:00 Plenary Session

Convener: JR Wilson (Q)

11:30 Dark matter searches from DEAP/CLEAN

Speaker: Dr Jocelyn Monroe (Royal Holloway University of London)

jmonroe_ipa2014_deap3600.pdf

12:00 Neutrinoless double beta decay

Speaker: Prof. Ruben Saakyan (UCL)

NDBD_IPA2014.pdf

12:30 Neutrinoless double beta decay and dark matter direct detection with CUORE and CUORE-0

Speaker: Dr Thomas O'Donnel (UC Berkeley / LBNL)

IPA2014_CUORE.pdf

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 16:00 Plenary Session

Convener: Dr Teppei Katori (Queen Mary Unviersity of London)

14:00 Muon to electron conversion experiments

COMET speaker to give this talk

Speaker: Dr Phill Litchfield (UCL)

mu-e_rpl22082104.pdf

14:30 Phenomenological implications of charged lepton flavour and CP violation

Speaker: Prof. Toru Goto (KEK)

goto-140822.pdf

15:00 Results from MEG

Speaker: Dr Hajime Nishiguch (KEK)

IPA2014_MEG.pdf

15:30 Implications of results of non-SM searches at the LHC and low energy machines

Speaker: Prof. Jessie Shelton (University of Illinois)

140822-IPA2.pdf

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee Break

16:30 → 18:00 Plenary Session

Convener: Dr A Bevan (Queen Mary)

16:30 Experimental Summary

Speaker: Prof. Ian Shipsey (Oxford/Perdue)

IAP2014-Expt-Summary-Shipsey-v2.pdf

17:00 Theoretical Summary

Speaker: Prof. Antonio Masiero (Padova)

IPA2014_QMUL_th_summay__masiero.pdf

17:30 Workshop closeout

Speaker: Dr A Bevan (Queen Mary)