2nd Training School COST Action COSMIC WISPers (CA21106)

10 Jun 2024, 07:00 → 14 Jun 2024, 18:00 Europe/Ljubljana

Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Ljubljana (Slovenia)

The European COST Action CA21106 "Cosmic WISPers in the Dark Universe: Theory, astrophysics and experiments" is an initiative funded by the COST Association, whose goal is to study axions and other very weakly interacting slim  particles (WISPs) emerging in several extensions of the Standard Model of Particle Physics. Searches for WISPs are strongly motivated by our attempts to understand the nature of the dark matter and puzzling astrophysical and particle physics observations.

The COST Action CA21106 2nd Training School will be held in Ljubljana (Slovenia). The goal is to start training a generation of young scientists in the interdisciplinary expertise on WISPs, ranging from theoretical and experimental  approaches to multi-messenger astroparticle physics and cosmology. For this purpose, the Training School will offer lectures from experts on different aspects of WISPs physics. The School is aimed at PhD students, as well as early-career postdocs.
 

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Monday, 10 June

08:30 Registration

1 Pre-school: Standard Model and beyond

Speaker: Yuval Grossman

10:30 Coffee break

2 Pre-school: Standard Model and beyond

Speaker: Yuval Grossman

12:00 Lunch

3 Pre-school: Standard Model and beyond

Speaker: Yuval Grossman

15:00 Coffee break

4 Pre-school: Standard Model and beyond

Speaker: Yuval Grossman

Tuesday, 11 June

5 WG3 - WISPs and gamma-ray astrophysics

Speaker: Francesca Calore

10:30 Coffee break

6 WG3 - WISPs and gamma-ray astrophysics

Speaker: Francesca Calore

12:30 Lunch

7 WG3 - Tutorial

Speaker: Christopher Eckner

15:30 Coffee break

8 Discussion

9 Topics in science communication

Speaker: Dunja Fabjan

10 Public lecture

Speaker: Gabrijela Zaharijas

Wednesday, 12 June

11 WG4 - Axion searches in colliders

Speaker: Jure Zupan

10:00 Coffee break

12 WG4 - Axion searches in colliders

Speaker: Jure Zupan

11:45 Lunch

13 WG4 - Tutorial

Speaker: Michele Tammaro

15:30 Coffee break

14 Discussion

15 TBA

Speaker: Alessandro Lella

16 Application of polarimeter for detection of scalar (pseudoscalar) dark matter

Speaker: Quazal Rokn

17 Polarimetry Techniques for Vacuum Magnetic Birefringence

Speaker: Laura Roberts

18 Radiation from Global Axion Strings

Speaker: Mathieu Kaltschmidt

19 Baryon violation induced by an Axion

Speaker: Théo Brugeat

20 The Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment (CASPEr)

Speaker: Ophir Ruimi

21 Searching for WISPs at the LHC with the MoEDAL-MAPP Experiment

Speaker: Michael Staelens

22 GeV ALP from TeV Vector-like Leptons

Speaker: Marta Fuentes Zamoro

Thursday, 13 June

23 WG1 - Axion Theory

Speaker: Giovanni Villadoro

10:30 Coffee break

24 WG1 - Axion Theory

Speaker: Giovanni Villadoro

12:30 Lunch

25 WG1 - Tutorial

Speaker: Rudin Petrossian-Byrne

26 Discussion

27 From vacuum decay to gravitational waves

Speaker: Marco Matteini

28 Hunting for Dark Photon-Photon Tridents

Speaker: Thong Nguyen

29 Dark matter detection with superconducting qubit in RADES experiment

Speaker: Yikun Gu

30 Using Functional Methods to study Quantum Axion-Electrodynamics

Speaker: Henrique Gonçalves

31 Overview of axion-electrodynamics

Speaker: Théo Abounnasr Martins

32 Probing freeze-in via invisible Higgs decay

Speaker: Vinícius Oliveira

33 Binary pulsars as fuzzy dark matter detectors

Speaker: Pavel Kůs

34 Effects of thermal fluctuactions on the QCD axion string-wall network

Speaker: Amedeo Maria Favitta

Friday, 14 June

35 WG2 - Axions in the early universe and cosmo bounds

Speaker: Ben Safdi

10:30 Coffee break

36 WG2 - Axions in the early universe and cosmo bounds

Speaker: Ben Safdi

12:30 Lunch

37 WG2 - Tutorial

Speaker: Toby Opferkuch

15:30 Coffee break

38 Discussion