New avenues are called for to solve the mystery of what is the dark matter in the Universe. The WIMP paradigm remains the best tested scenario of dark matter, but searches for new physics at the electroweak scale have come up empty-handed to-date. By 2019 the LHC will have comprehensively probed the TeV-scale, and ton-scale direct detection experiments will improve the to WIMP-nucleus scattering by an order of magnitude, probing deeply into the Higgs- mediated regime. It is essential for the field to diversify and be prepared in case of further null results.
Dark matter in the keV-GeV mass range is an exciting theoretical possibility, and is one that has become the focus of activity only in the recent past. A number of proposals have been put forward for new methods to detect light dark matter (neutrino beams and underground accelerators, electron scattering, semi- and superconducting targets, Bremsstrahlung emission, defects in crystals, among many others), and new theoretical scenarios have been entertained for the dynamics in the early Universe and their non-gravitational interactions in astrophysical environments today (Forbidden DM, SIMP DM, Impeded DM, etc.).
The workshop shall act as a forum for theorists and experimentalists to discuss searches, theories, results, opportunities, and, in general, new ideas for sub-GeV Dark Matter. It will hence be a meeting that focuses on models and regions in parameter space that are overlooked by the standard WIMP studies, and that may open a new window into the dark sector.
Workshop: STRONG-DM 2019, August 5 - 16, 2019
Schedule Week 1 (pdf)
Conference: Light Dark World International Forum 2019, August 12 - 13, 2019
For questions regarding the workshop please contact Josef Pradler, HEPHY, josef.pradler@oeaw.ac.at
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Organizers
Name | Affiliation |
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Brian Batell | University of Pittsburgh |
Nicolás Bernal | University Antonio Narino |
Xiaoyong Chu | HEPHY Vienna |
Hey-Sung Lee | Korea Institute for Advanced Study |
Josef Pradler | University of Vienna |
Tomer Volansky | Tel Aviv University |
Attendees
Name | Affiliation |
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Haipeng An | Tsinghua University |
Michel Bertemes | HEPHY Vienna |
Itai Bloch | Tel Aviv University |
Celine Boehm | University of Sydney |
Alexey Boyarsky | Leiden University |
Nassim Bozorgnia | Durham University |
Torsten Bringmann | University of Oslo |
Yanou Cui | University of California, Riverside |
Hooman Davoudiasl | Brookhaven National Laboratory |
Andrei Derevianko | University of Nevada |
Timon Emken | Chalmers University of Technology |
Rouven Essig | Stony Brook University |
Camilo Alfredo Garcia Cely | DESY Hamburg |
Sergei Gninenko | CERN |
Thomas Hambye | Vrije Universiteit Brussel |
Saniya Heeba | RWTH Aachen |
Gianluca Inguglia | HEPHY Vienna |
Felix Kahlhöfer | RWTH Aachen |
Pyungwon Ko | Korea Institute for Advanced Study |
Jui-Lin Kuo | HEPHY Vienna |
Ulf Leonhardt | Weizmann Institute of Science |
Zhiyuan Li | Georg-August-Universität |
Wolfgang Lucha | Austrian Academy of Sciences Vienna |
Ernest Ma | University of California, Riverside |
David McKeen | Triumf |
Gerhard Petrakovics | Austrian Academy of Sciences Vienna |
Martti Raidal | CERN |
Florian Reindl | HEPHY and Technical University Vienna |
Adam Ritz | University of Victoria |
Joshua Ruderman | New York University |
Thomas Schwetz-Mangold | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology |
Neelima Sehgal | Stony Brook University |
Lukas Semmelrock | HEPHY Vienna |
Anastasia Sokolenko | HEPHY Vienna |
Tommi Tenkanen | Johns Hopkins University |
Laurent Vanderheyden | Vrije Universiteit Brussel |
Wei Xue | CERN |
Tien-Tien Yu | University of Oregon |
Yufeng Zhou | Chinese Academy of Sciences |