COST Advanced School on Physics of Dark Matter and Hidden Sectors: from Theory to Experiment

18 Oct 2021, 09:00 → 21 Oct 2021, 19:05 Europe/Stockholm

K308 Teorilabbet (Lund university)

Antonio Morais (Aveiro U.) , Caterina Doglioni (Lunds universitet) , Monica D'Onofrio (University of Liverpool) , Rebeca Gonzalez Suarez (Uppsala University) , Roman Pasechnik (Lunds universitet) , Zhi-Wei Wang (Lund university)

The nature of Dark Matter phenomenon remains one of the biggest unsolved problem of contemporary fundamental physics. Since early astrophysical observations of gravitational effects of Dark Matter, many theoretical approaches that would elaborate on its possible origins, properties, cosmological evolution and astrophysical implications have been developed. Many experimental searches for particle physics candidates of Dark Matter in collider measurements and in astrophysics have been deployed greatly cratering into the parameter space of the most popular models. Several news ways of probing the yet hidden physics of Dark Sectors and Dark Matter are being established.

The School will start with a basic overview of experimental situation with searches for hints of Dark Matter and theoretical foundations of Hidden Sectors and what role they play in fundamental physics. The planned lectures and discussion sessions would be primarily targeted at Ph.D. students and young postdocs, but may also be of interest for more senior researchers. The lectures will elaborate on some of the basic theoretical concepts and the status of phenomenological explorations of Dark Matter and Dark Sectors. The School will include extended discussion sessions, with active participation of students, researchers and lecturers, where selected topics and questions would be covered in detail. Finally, a specialised session devoted to students' and young researcher's short presentations about their research projects will be arranged.

Format of the School:

We plan for a hybrid (in-person & online) event, with a limited on-site participation. All the lectures and presentations will be broadcasted via Zoom, recorded and posted online.

The hybrid format will also be applied for coffee breaks, welcome drink and school dinner so that on-site and remote participants would stay connected and have an opportunity for informal discussions.

Due to active Covid-19 regulations at Lund university, only a limited number of on-site participants are allowed to be present in auditorium, with the majority of trainees and lecturers participating online/remotely.

There is no registration fee. The registration deadline has been extended to

***** October 16th 2021 *******

Confirmed lecturers and topics:

• Sergey Burdin - Dark Matter direct searches
• Carlos Herdeiro - Black holes, bosonic stars and ultralight Dark Matter
• Antonio Morais - Models for ultra-light Dark Sectors
• Alexander Belyaev - Towards the Consistent Dark Matter exploration
• Kimmo Tuominen - Dark matter through the Higgs portal
• Andrea Addazi - Phase Transitions and Primordial Black Holes from Dark Sectors
• Monica D'Onofrio - The Dark Matter quest at colliders
• Giacomo Cacciapaglia - composite Goldstone Dark Matter
• Zhi-Wei Wang - Strongly-Coupled Hidden Sectors
• Antonino Marciano - Gravitational Wave probes for Dark Matter
• Caterina Doglioni - Dark Matter complementarity
• Andy Buckley - Using precision measurements to constrain new physics models with CONTUR
• Rebeca Gonzalez Suarez - Non-standard collider signatures: long-lived particles
• Pedro M. Ferreira - Dark phases of multi-scalar models
• Felipe Freitas - Machine-Learning methods for Dark Sector searchers
• Rui Santos - Particle Physics anomalies from Dark Matter 
• Wei-Chih Huang - Dark Sectors for matter asymmetry and neutrino physics

Internet access is available through the eduroam wireless network.

Dates: from 18 October 2021 9:00 to 21 October 2021 18:30 

Location: Zoom and Department of Astronomy and Theoretical Physics,
Lund University, Sölvegatan 27, Lund
Room: K308 Teorilabbet

Zoom link will be communicated to the registered School participants shortly before the School starts.

Any inquires about the school programme etc should sent via email to Roman.Pasechnik@thep.lu.se.

Public lecture:

In association with the School, we organise a public lecture by Prof. Francesco Sannino on Tuesday, October 19th at 18:00. For the official announcement and more details, please see:

https://www.lu.se/evenemang/public-lecture-physics-garage-string-theory-pandemics

Those who would like to attend the public lecture, either in person or online, are kindly requested to fill out a very short registration form here. 

Organising committee:

• Roman Pasechnik (chair)
• Monica D'Onofrio
• Caterina Doglioni
• Rebeca Gonzalez Suarez
• Zhi-Wei Wang
• Antonio Morais

     

COST_School-poster.pdf

Monday, 18 October

09:30 → 10:00 Registration

The registration desk will be placed at the sound floor of Astronomy building, in front of Lundmarksalen

10:00 → 11:00 Dark Matter quest at colliders

Speaker: Monica D'Onofrio (University of Liverpool)

lecture_1_onofrio.mp4

Monday-discussion.mp4

TheQuestForDMAtColliders.pptx

11:00 → 11:15 Discussion

11:15 → 11:45 Coffee break

11:45 → 12:45 Non-standard collider signatures: long-lived particles

Speaker: Rebeca Gonzalez Suarez (Uppsala university)

lecture_2_gonzalezsuarez.mp4

LLP-Lecture_COST-2021.pdf

12:45 → 13:00 Discussion

13:00 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 15:30 Composite Goldstone Dark Matter

Speaker: Giacomo Cacciapaglia (University of Lyon)

Giacomo.mp4

Lecture_Lund.pdf

15:30 → 15:45 Discussion

15:45 → 16:15 Coffee break

16:15 → 17:15 Dark matter through the Higgs portal

Speaker: Kimmo Tuominen (University of Helsinki)

DM_Lund2.pdf

Kimmo.mp4

17:15 → 17:30 Discussion

17:30 → 18:15 Extended discussion & tutorials: Collider searches for Dark Matter; led by Monica D'Onofrio and Rebeca Gonzalez Suarez

18:15 → 19:30 Welcome reception

Tuesday, 19 October

09:00 → 10:00 Dark Matter direct searches

Speaker: Sergey Burdin (University of Liverpool)

COST2021_DMschool_DirectDM_SB.pdf

lecture_1_tuesday.mp4

10:00 → 10:15 Discussion

10:15 → 10:45 Coffee break

10:45 → 11:45 Dark Matter complementarity

Speaker: Caterina Doglioni (Lunds universitet)

20211019_LundDMSchool_DMComplementarity.pdf

lecture_2_tuesday.mp4

11:45 → 12:00 Discussion

12:00 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 14:30 Using precision measurements to constrain new physics models with CONTUR

Speaker: Andy Buckley (University of Glasgow)

2021-10 COST DM Contur.pdf

Andy.mp4

14:30 → 14:45 Discussion

14:45 → 15:15 Coffee break

15:15 → 16:15 Towards the Consistent Dark Matter exploration

Speaker: Alexander Belyaev (University of Southampton)

Belyaev-Lund-2021-Consistent-DM-exploration.pdf

Sasha.mp4

16:15 → 17:00 Extended discussion & tutorials: Towards the Consistent Dark Matter exploration; led by Alexander Belyaev

18:00 → 19:00 Public lecture "The physics garage: From string theory to pandemics"

The Standard Model of particle interactions is an extremely successful theory of nature. It describes the electric, magnetic, weak and strong forces of nature. It fails however to take into account dark matter and can’t even explain why matter wins over antimatter. Last but not least the Standard Model does not take into account quantum gravity. It must therefore be extended. But what are the possible constraints coming from embedding the extension of the Standard Model in a consistent theory of quantum gravity? We will use string theory, as quantum gravity template, to deduce a number of conjectures and conditions on the type of extensions allowed for the Standard Model. This is the Swampland program. What is even more exciting is that the same physics underlying the fundamental forces of nature can be used to rationalize our understanding of infectious disease spreading and even help rationalizing virus mutations with impact on several realms of scientific enquiry.

Speaker: Francesco Sannino (Director of the Centre for Cosmology and Particle Physics (CP3), Denmark)

Francesco-public_lecture_new.mp4

Lund-Strings-Pandemics-shared.pptx

19:00 → 19:30 Discussion

Wednesday, 20 October

09:00 → 09:30 Phase Transitions and Primordial Black Holes from Dark Sectors CANCELLED

Speaker: Andrea Addazi (Sichuan University)

Addazi_LundSchool.pdf

09:30 → 10:15 Extended discussion & tutorials: Tutorial on Machine Learning by Felipe Freitas

10:15 → 10:45 Coffee break

10:45 → 11:45 Gravitational Wave probes for Dark Matter

Speaker: Antonino Marciano (Fudan university)

Antonino.mp4

Lund School .pdf

11:45 → 12:00 Discussion

12:00 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 14:30 Dark Sectors for matter asymmetry and neutrino physics

Speaker: Wei-Chih Huang (Southern Denmark U., CP3-Origins)

COST_nuDMBa.pdf

Wei-Chih.mp4

14:30 → 14:45 Discussion

14:45 → 15:15 Coffee break

15:15 → 16:15 Black holes, bosonic stars and ultralight Dark Matter

Speaker: Carlos Herdeiro (Aveiro university)

Carlos.mp4

Lund workshop, Oct 2021 final print.pdf

16:15 → 16:30 Discussion

16:30 → 17:30 Models for ultra-light Dark Sectors

Speaker: Antonio Morais (Aveiro university)

Antonio.mp4

Ultralight COST Lund.pdf

17:30 → 18:15 Extended discussion & tutorials: Black holes, bosonic stars and ultralight Dark Matter; led by Carlos Herdeiro and Antonio Morais

19:00 → 21:00 Dinner

Thursday, 21 October

09:00 → 10:00 Dark Phase Transition and Gravitational Wave of Strongly Coupled Hidden Sectors

Speaker: Zhi-Wei Wang (Lund university)

Strongly Coupled Sectors and GW.pdf

Zhiwei.mov

10:00 → 10:15 Discussion

10:15 → 10:45 Coffee break

10:45 → 11:45 Particle Physics anomalies from Dark Matter

Speaker: Rui Santos (Lisbon U., CFTC)

AulaLund2021_santos.pdf

Rui.mp4

11:45 → 12:00 Discussion

12:00 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 14:30 Dark phases of multi-scalar models

Speaker: Pedro M. Ferreira (Lisbon U., CFTC)

Lund 2021.pdf

Lund 2021.pptx

Pedro.mp4

14:30 → 14:45 Discussion

14:45 → 15:15 Coffee break

15:15 → 16:15 Machine-Learning methods for Dark Sector searchers

Speaker: Felipe Freitas (Aveiro university)

Felipe.mp4

Machine-Learning methods for Dark Sector searchers

16:15 → 17:00 Extended discussion & tutorials: Machine Learning methods for high energy physics; led by Felipe Freitas

17:00 → 18:30 Students presentations

COST - Nicoline Hemme Student Presentation.pptx

Exploring Multilepton Signatures From Dark Matter at the LHC COST.pdf

Lund_Kolesova.pdf

Lund_presentation_Joao.pdf

short-presentations.mp4

talk_lund_RC.pdf

18:30 → 18:50 Closing