Invisibles18 Workshop

Sep 3, 2018, 8:00 AM → Sep 7, 2018, 6:00 PM Europe/Berlin

Nachrichtentechnik - Hörsaal (NTI) (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))

 

The Invisibles18 Workshop will take place in Karlsruhe, Germany from September 3 to September 7, 2018 and is organized by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. The associated Invisibles18 School will take place the week before, from August 27 to August 31, 2018, at the TUM Science & Study Center Raitenhaslach in Burghausen, Germany and is organized by the Max Planck Institute for Physics and TU Munich.

The focus of the workshop will be on the physics of the "Invisibles":

• Neutrinos
• Dark Matter
• Axions
• Direct and indirect BSM searches
• Invisibles in astrophysics and cosmology

Talks are by invitation only, except for PhD students who are encouraged to apply for a brief plenary talk plus a poster presentation.

Important Dates:

• May 28, 2018: Deadline student applications for "Plenary Talk + Poster". Applications for "Poster Only" are also accepted afterwards.
• June 15, 2018: Early registration deadline.
• July 31, 2018: Final registration deadline - extended till Aug. 8, 2018

Social program and excursion:

On the evening of 3 Sept there will be a reception in Karlsruhe Palace.

On the free afternoon of Wed, 5 Sept we offer two organized events: A visit to the KIT research center at Campus North, including a visit to the KATRIN experiment and/or a guided tour at the local brewery Hoepfnerbräu.  Both events have a limit for the number of participants. If more people are interested there will be a waiting list.

In the evening of Wed, 5 Sept there will be the conference dinner at Hoepfnerbräu.

Further information can be found here.

 

Public Talk:

On Thu, 6 Sept, Prof Susanne Mertens (Max-Planck-Institute and TU Munich) will give a public talk on "Leicht, leichter, Neutrino: Elementarteilchen auf der Waage". The talk will be in German and takes place in the Tulla Lecture Hall. Starting time is 7 PM.

 

Recommended evening activity: Schlosslichtspiele Karlsruhe

 

 

Scientific Organizing Committee	Local Organizing Committee (KIT)
Jan Conrad (U Stockholm)	Oliver Fischer
Laura Covi (U Göttingen)	Anna Friedrich
Belen Gavela (UAM Madrid)	Moritz Hackenjos
Pilar Hernandez (U Valencia)	Alvaro Hernandez
Jörg Jäckel (U Heidelberg)	Margarete Mühlleitner
Mauro Mezzetto (U Padova)	Andreas Pargner
Margarete Mühlleitner (KIT)	Thomas Schwetz (chair)
Ann Nelson (U Washington)	Kathrin Valerius
Silvia Pascoli (U Durham)	Conference secretaries
Georg Raffelt (MPP Munich)	Rebeca Bello (UAM)
Thomas Schwetz (KIT) - chair	Anna Friedrich (KIT)
Kathrin Valerius (KIT)

 

 

The Invisibles18 Workshop is organised in the context of the Horizon 2020 funded projects ELUSIVES (674896-ELUSIVES-H2020-MSCA-ITN-2015) and InvisiblesPlus (690575-InvisiblesPlus-H2020-MSCA-RISE-2015), which focus on Neutrino and Dark Matter phenomenology and their connection, with emphasis on the role of the symmetry relating matter and antimatter. It is the seventh thematic workshop in the series initiated in connection with the past ITN project INVISIBLES.

 

Invisibles18_group-picture.jpg

Teilnahmebedingungen_Invisibles18 Workshop.pdf

General Information

• campus_plan.pdf
• general_information.pdf
• Invisibles18 Workshop last minute info.pdf

Poster

• 2018-09_Invisibles_Poster_high-res.pdf
• 2018-09_Invisibles_Poster_low-res.pdf
• 2018-09_Invisibles_Public-Talk_low v2.pdf

Mon, September 3

8:00 AM → 9:00 AM registration

9:00 AM → 9:05 AM Welcome introduction

9:05 AM → 9:35 AM Opening Talk

9:05 AM Opening talk

Speaker: Kathryn Zurek

9:35 AM → 10:35 AM Neutrinos

Convener: Chair: Belen Gavela

9:35 AM Recent Results on Accelerator Oscillation Experiments

Speaker: Brajesh Choudhary

2_BCC-KIT-Invisibles2018-Talk.pdf

10:05 AM Nonstandard Neutrino Interactions

Speaker: Yasaman Farzan

3_Yasaman-Invisibles2018.pdf

10:35 AM → 11:05 AM coffee

11:05 AM → 2:00 PM Neutrinos

Convener: Chair: Ana M. Teixeira

11:05 AM Sterile Neutrino Searches at Colliders

Speaker: Stefan Antusch

1_SterileNus_Invisibles18_Antusch.pdf

11:35 AM PhD forum 1

1-Heavy Neutral Fermions at the High-Luminosity LHC (Zeren Simon Wang)
2-Baryogenesis from R-parity Breaking : the Role of Flavour (Fiona Kirk)
3-Gauge Legacy LHC Run I (Nuno Rosa Agostinho)
4-Determining the Masses of Right-Handed Neutrinos in the Littlest Seesaw (Susana Molina Sedgwick)
5-An EFT Approach to Possible Lepton Anomalies (Rupert Coy)

12:05 PM Low-Scale Lepton Number Violation and Leptogenesis

Speaker: Julia Harz

2_harz_Invisibles2018.pdf

12:35 PM lunch

2:00 PM → 3:30 PM Neutrinos

Convener: Chair: Renata Zukanovich Funchal

2:00 PM Neutrino masses from Planck-scale lepton number breaking

Speaker: Alejandro Ibarra

2:30 PM PhD forum 2

1-SO(10) Inspired Z' Models at the LHC (Simon King)
2-SO(10)xS4 Grand Unified Theory of Flavour and Leptogenesis (Elena Perdomo Mendez)
3-Three-Flavoured Non-Resonant Leptogenesis at Intermediate Scales (Kristian Moffat)
4-ARS Mechanism and Beyond (Andrea Caputo)
5-IceCube Bounds on Sterile Neutrinos Above 10 eV (Julia Gehrlein)

3:00 PM Neutrinos and the Gravitational Theta-Term

Speaker: Lena Funcke

2_Presentation_Funcke.pdf

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM coffee

4:00 PM → 6:00 PM Neutrinos

Convener: Chair: Sandhya Choubey

4:00 PM Neutrino Portal to Dark Matter

Speaker: Arsenii Titov

1_Invisibles18_ArseniiTitov.pdf

4:30 PM Sterile neutrino searches at DUNE and IceCube

Speaker: Josu Hernandez

2_Sterile_Neutrino_Searches_at_DUNE_and_IceCube_Invisibles18_Josu_Hernandez(final).pdf

5:00 PM Testable Models for Leptogenesis

Speaker: Lopez-Pavon

3_Invisibles_JLP.pdf

5:30 PM Neutrino Discussion 1

Speaker: Zhi-zhong Xing

6:30 PM → 8:30 PM Reception

Tue, September 4

9:00 AM → 10:30 AM Neutrinos

Convener: Chair: Stephen Parke

9:00 AM Direct Neutrino Mass Measurments

Speaker: Loredana Gastaldo

Gastaldo_Invisible_web.pdf

9:30 AM PhD forum 3

1-Optical Selection for Pandora-based Electron Neutrino Searches in MicroBooNE (Wouter Van De Pontseele)
2-Constraints on Neutrino Matter Potential and Robustness of Oscillation Data (Ivan Esteban)
3-Status of the eV Sterile Neutrino Oscillations (Alvaro Hernandez-Cabezudo)
4-A Study of Invisible Neutrino Decay at DUNE and its Effects on θ23 Measurement (Dipyaman Pramanik)
5-Probing the Sterile Neutrino Portal to Dark Matter with γ Rays (Miguel G. Folgado)

10:00 AM Sterile Neutrinos in Beta and Neutrinoless Double Beta Decays

Speaker: Xabier Marcano

2_Invisibles18_Marcano.pdf

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM coffee

11:00 AM → 12:30 PM Neutrinos

Convener: Chair: Gabriela Barenboim

11:00 AM Review of Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Experiments

Speaker: Chiara Brofferio

1-Invisibles2018rid.pdf

11:30 AM PhD forum 4

1-KATRIN Background Characterization (Anna Pollithy)
2-Status of the Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay Experiment GERDA (Chloe Ransom)
3-Unparticle Decay of Neutrinos and its Possible Signatures at a Km2 Detector for (3+1) Flavour Framework (Madhurima Pandey)
4-Gravitational Contributions to the Beta Function (Sergio Gonzalez-Martin)
5-Cosmic Infrared Background Excess from Axion-like Particles, and Implications for Multi-messenger Observations of Blazars (Edoardo Vitagliano)

12:00 PM Neutrinos in Cosmology

Speaker: Olga Mena

kals_pilar.pdf

12:30 PM → 2:30 PM Lunch with Poster Session

12:30 PM Lunch with Poster Session

2:30 PM → 4:00 PM Neutrinos

Convener: Chair: Pilar Hernandez

2:30 PM High Energy Neutrinos and Multi Messenger Astronomy

Speaker: Anna Franckowiak

Invisibles_Franckowiak_2018_upload.pdf

3:00 PM The High Energy Neutrino Sky

Speaker: Irene Tamborra

2-Invisibles_Tamborra.pdf

3:30 PM Neutrino Discussion 2

Speaker: Pilar Hernandez

4:00 PM → 4:30 PM coffee

4:30 PM → 6:00 PM Axions

Convener: Chair: Michele Frigerio

4:30 PM Factoring the strong CP problem

Speaker: Prateek Agrawal

PrateekAgrawal-axions.pdf

5:00 PM The Strong CP Problem: Models with Exotic Color Groups.

Speaker: Rachel Houtz

2-Invisibles18 - Houtz.pdf

5:30 PM A gauged U(1) Peccei-Quinn symmetry

Speaker: Masahiro Ibe

3-ibe_axion_invisible.key.pdf

Wed, September 5

9:00 AM → 11:00 AM Axions

Convener: Chair: Joerg Jaeckel

9:00 AM Axion - Experiment Overview

Speaker: Caterina Braggio

1-braggio.pdf

9:30 AM Axion couplings in non-standard axion models

Speaker: Luca di Luzio

Di_Luzio_Invisibles.pdf

10:00 AM PhD forum 5

1-The Dark-Matter Axion Mass (Vincent Klaer)
2-Axion Minicluster Power Spectrum and Mass Function (Andreas Pargner)
3-Axion couplings to EW gauge bosons (Pablo Quílez Lasanta)
4-Non-minimally Coupled Scalar Dark Matter from Inflationary Fluctuations (Gonzalo Alonso Alvarez)
5-Quasi-local energy and compactification (Raquel Santos)

10:30 AM Structure formation with Axion and ALP Dark Matter

Speaker: Jens Niemeyer

11:00 AM → 11:30 AM coffee

11:30 AM → 1:00 PM Axions

Convener: Chair: Georg Raffelt

11:30 AM Dense and dilute axion stars

Speaker: Luca Visinelli

Visinelli_Invisibles2018.pdf

12:00 PM Indirect detection of axion dark matter

Speaker: Ben Safdi

Safdi_invisibles_2018.pdf

12:30 PM Axion Discussion

Speaker: Eung Jin Chun

1:00 PM → 2:00 PM lunch

2:00 PM → 5:00 PM Free Afternoon / Visit to KATRIN

5:00 PM → 7:00 PM Free Afternoon / Visit to a Local Brewery

7:00 PM → 10:00 PM Conference Dinner

Thu, September 6

9:00 AM → 10:30 AM Dark Matter

Convener: Chair: Marta Losada

9:00 AM WIMP Phenomenology

Speaker: Riccardo Catena

1-catena.pdf

9:30 AM DM and Light Mediators

Speaker: Felix Kahlhöfer

2-kahlhoefer.pdf

10:00 AM Dark Matter Direct Detection Results and Outlook

Speaker: Fei Gao

3-invisible_2018_direct_detection_review_fei.pdf

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM coffee

11:00 AM → 12:30 PM Dark Matter

Convener: Chair: Laura Covi

11:00 AM New Physics and 21 cm Observations

Speaker: Josef Pradler

1-pradler-2018Invisibles.pdf

11:30 AM PhD forum 6

1-Surrogate Models for Direct Dark Matter Detection (Andrew Cheek)
2-Dark Matter Model or Mass: Benchmark-Free Forecasting for Future Detectors (Thomas Edwards)
3-Singlet-Triplet Higgs portal Dark Matter (Anastasiia Filimonova)
4-Singlet-Triplet Fermionic Dark Matter and LHC Phenomenology (Sarif Khan)
5-General Bounds on Hidden CFTs (Kevin Max)

12:00 PM Dark Matter Indirect Detection - Prospects for WIMPs

Speaker: Pearl Sandick

12:30 PM → 2:00 PM lunch

2:00 PM → 3:30 PM Dark Matter

Convener: Chair: Kathrin Valerius

2:00 PM News on keV Sterile Neutrino DM

Speaker: Fedor Bezrukov

1-kevDM2.pdf

2:30 PM PhD forum 7

1-Constraining Dark Matter-Photon Scattering with CMB Observations (Julia Stadler)
2-Impact of Beyond the Standard Model Physics in the Detection of the Cosmic Neutrino Background (Martin Arteaga Tupia)
3-The Foreground Effect on the J-factor Estimation of Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies (Shunichi Horigome)
4-Thermalization of Inelastic Dark Matter in the Sun (Stefan Clementz)
5-Freezing Dark Matter Through Heavy Spin-1 and Spin-2 Portals (Maira Dutra)

3:00 PM Searching for the Decay of Axion Dark Matter

Speaker: Samuel Witte

2-Witte_axion_decay.pdf

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM coffee

4:00 PM → 5:30 PM Dark Matter

Convener: Chair: Shaaban Kahlil

4:00 PM Review of FIMP Dark Matter

Speaker: Nicolas Bernal

1-bernal-invisibles18.pdf

4:30 PM Bimetric Gravity and Dark Matter

Speaker: Angnis Schmidt-May

schmidt-may-Invisibles.pdf

5:00 PM Dark Matter/Cosmology discussion

Speaker: Malcolm Fairbairn

7:00 PM → 8:00 PM Public Outreach Talk

7:00 PM Leicht, leichter, Neutrino: Elementarteilchen auf der Waage

Speaker: Dr Susanne Mertens

Fri, September 7

9:00 AM → 11:00 AM BSM, Higgs & Flavor

Convener: Chair: Margarete Muehlleitner

9:00 AM Overview on B Anomalies and their Possible Interpretations

Speaker: Andreas Crivelin

1-crivellin-Invisibles2018.pdf

9:30 AM B-Physics and Lepton Flavor (Universality) Violation

Speaker: Olcyr Sumensari

2-Sumensari-Invisibles-2018.pdf

10:00 AM CP Violation caused by another symmetry

Speaker: Andreas Trautner

3-18_Karlsruhe_Trautner.pdf

10:30 AM SM and BSM Higgs Properties

Speaker: Ramona Gröber

4-invisibles_groeber.pdf

11:00 AM → 11:30 AM coffee

11:30 AM → 12:30 PM BSM, Higgs & Flavor

Convener: Chair: Asmaa Abada

11:30 AM Heavy Higgs Searches in the MSSM with CP Violation

Speaker: Shruti Patel

Invisibles18_patel_v2.pdf

12:00 PM Axions in the Minimal Linear sigma model framework

Speaker: Stefano Rigolin

2-AMLSM.pdf

12:30 PM → 1:00 PM Concluding Talk

12:30 PM Outlook: The Physics of the Invisibles

Speaker: Silvia Pascoli

3-Invisibles2018Outlook.pdf

1:00 PM → 2:00 PM farewell lunch