MU Programmtag 2016

12 Dec 2016, 10:00 → 13 Dec 2016, 16:00 Europe/Berlin

Helmholtz Institute Mainz

!!! REGISTRATION closed !!! The Helmholtz Programme Matter and the Universe (MU) conducts its second annual symposium. MU gathers the communities of particle physics, hadron and nuclear physics and astroparticle physics for two ‘programme days’. MUTAG2015 took place at Forschungszentrum Jülich, MUTAG2016 takes place at the Helmholtz Institute Mainz. The programme features a broad range of topics from science strategy over intense topical parallel workshops to highlight lectures. We are specifically keen to attract colleagues from our partner universities - networking has been an effective asset of the Helmholtz Association. The spirit of the Alliances Terascale, EMMI and HAP lives on... The host Frank Maas and the MU spokesperson Johannes Blümer look forward to see you in Mainz!

Monday, 12 December

10:00 → 11:00 Registration and Coffee

11:00 → 13:00 Strategy-Session

11:00 Programm and Future in POF4

Speaker: Johannes Blümer

Slides Bluemer_-_MUTAG2016.pdf

11:30 Topic 1

Speaker: Thomas Schörner-Sadenius

Slides SCHÖRNER-SADENIUS

12:00 Topic 2

Speaker: Frank Maas

Slides MAAS

12:30 Topic 3

Speaker: Guido Drexlin

Slides DREXLIN

13:00 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 17:00 Antimatter: Cross Topic Parallel Session

14:30 Relating EDM to fundamental CP-violating parameters

Speaker: Andreas Wirzba (FZJ)

15:15 Analysis of B -> K tau tau at Belle

Speaker: Simon Wehle (DESY)

15:45 Analysis of Tauonic B Decays

Speaker: Martin Heck (KIT)

16:15 Discussion forum on new physics in B->X tau tau decays

Speakers: Carsten Niebuhr (DESY), Monika Blanke (KIT), Ulrich Nierste (KIT)

14:30 → 17:00 Nature of Dark Matter: Cross Topic Parallel Session

14:30 Studying generalized dark matter interactionswith extended halo-independent methods

Abstract: The interpretation of dark matter direct detection experiments is complicated by the fact that neither the astrophysical distribution of dark matter nor the properties of its particle physics interactions with nuclei are known in detail. I will present a new framework that combines the full formalism of non-relativistic effective interactions with state-of-the-art halo-independent methods to deal with both of these issues in a very general way. This approach makes it possible to analyze direct detection experiments for arbitrary DM interactions independent of astro- physical uncertainties. I will demonstrate that the degeneracy between astrophysical uncertainties and particle physics unknowns is not complete and therefore future direct detection experiments will be able to infer at least some information on the coupling structure of dark matter without the need to make assumptions on its astrophysical distribution.

Speaker: Felix Kahlhoefer (DESY, Hamburg)

Slides KALKHOEFER

14:55 Axion dark matter from topological defects

Abstract: The axion arises as a pseudo Nambu-Goldstone boson from the spontaneous breaking of a hypothetical global Peccei-Quinn symmetry introduced to provide a solution to the strong CP problem of quantum chromodynamics. Due to the weakness of the coupling with ordinary matters, the axion is regarded as a viable candidate of dark matter of the universe. However, there is a theoretical uncertainty on the determination of the relic abundance of dark matter axions, which comes from a poor understanding of their production mechanism. In particular, the recent analysis of the spectrum of axions radiated from networks of topological defects revealed that axions produced by the defects give significant contributions to the relic cold dark matter abundance if the Peccei-Quinn symmetry is broken after inflation. In this talk, I will report the recent theoretical estimation of the axion dark matter abundance based on the results of field- theoretic lattice simulations of topological defects and discuss its implications for future experimental tests.

Speaker: Ken ́ichi Saikawa (DESY; Hamburg)

Slides SAIKAWA

15:20 FUNK dark photon search: status and perspectives

Speaker: Darko Veberic (KIT, Karlsruhe)

Slides VERBIC

15:45 Dark photon searches at MAMI and MESA

Speaker: Achim Denig (JGU and HIM, Mainz)

Slides DENIG

16:10 Dark matter models with two mediators

Abstract: A reliable comparison of different dark matter searches requires models that satisfy certain consistency conditions like gauge invariance and perturbative unitarity. These conditions can easily be satisfied in U(1)' extensions of the Standard Model, where a fermionic dark matter candidate as well as a new Z' gauge boson obtain their mass from the spontaneous breaking of the U(1)' by a dark Higgs. These dark matter scenarios contain two mediators, the new gauge boson and the dark Higgs, which can also act as final states in dark matter annihilation. I will discuss the general framework of consistent dark matter models with two mediators, and then review a class of dark matter models where baryon number is a local gauge symmetry.

Speaker: Michael Duerr (DESY, Hamburg)

Slides DUERR

16:35 Phenomenology of flavoured dark matter

Speaker: Simon Kast (KIT, Karlsruhe)

Slides KAST

14:30 → 17:00 Neutrino Properties: Cross Topic Parallel Session

14:30 Neutrino production in the sources of the UHECRs and the role of nuclear physics

Speaker: Anatoli Feydnitch (DESY, Zeuthen)

Slides Fedynitch

14:55 Testing neutrino mass generation at the GeV scale: Experimental reach versus theoretical predictions

Speaker: Rasmus W. Rasmussen (DESY, Zeuthen)

Slides Rasmussen

15:20 Testing neutrino properties with IceCube

Slides TERLIUK

15:45 Neutrinos in core-collapse supernova nucleosynthesis

Speaker: Andre Sieverding (GSI, Darmstadt)

Slides SIEVERDING

16:10 Testing neutrino properties with KATRIN: Status update

Speaker: Markus Steidl (KIT, Karlsruhe)

Slides STEIDL

16:35 Future activities of cross-topic "Neutrino properties"

Speaker: All

14:30 → 17:00 Origin of Mass: Cross Topic Parallel Session

14:30 Higgs Mass Predictions in BSM models

Speaker: Emanuele Bagnaschi (DESY)

Slides BAGNASCHI

14:55 The Generic Approach to Higgs Mass Calculations

Speaker: Florian Staub (KIT)

Slides STAUB

15:20 Finite-Volume Scattering and Resonances

Speaker: Maxwell Hansen (Helmholtz Institute)

Slides HANSEN

15:40 Theoretical status of the muon g-2

Speaker: Andreas Nyffeler (Institut für Kernphysik)

Slides NYFFELER

16:05 Vacuum Stability and the Origin of Mass

Speaker: Wolfgang G. Hollik (DESY)

Slides HOLLIK

16:30 Unitarization and Simplified Models for Vector Boson Scattering

Speaker: Marco Sekulla (KIT)

Slides SEKULLA

14:30 → 17:00 Stongly Interacting Matter: Cross Topic Parallel Session

14:30 What have we learnt from LHC about air showers?

Speaker: Tanguy Pierog (KIT, Karlsruhe)

Slides PIERGO

14:55 Underlying event and multiple parton interaction tunes for Monte Carlo event generators

Speaker: Paolo Gunnellini (DESY, Hamburg)

Slides GUNNELLINI

15:20 Moving forward with atmospheric charm

Speaker: James Talbert (DESY, Hamburg)

Slides TALBERT

15:45 Measurement of quarkonium production at the LHC: from pp to Pb-Pb collisions with insight into the Quark-Gluon Plasma

Speaker: Anton Andronic (EMMI, Darmstadt)

Slides ANDRONIC

16:10 Hadronic contributions to g-2 from lattice QCD

Speaker: Jeremy Green (DESY, Zeuthen)

Slides GREEN

16:35 Discussion of plans and future activities

17:00 → 17:30 Coffee

17:30 → 18:45 Session

17:30 Status and perspectives of LHC physics

Speaker: Kirsztian Peters (DESY, Hamburg)

Slides PETERS

17:55 Status and perspectives of FAIR

Speaker: Paolo Giubellino (GSI, Darmstadt)

Slides GIUBELLINO GIUBELLINO-FILM

18:20 Status and perspectives of CTA

Speaker: Jim Hinton (MPI, Heidelberg)

Slides HINTON

19:15 → 21:45 Dinner with poster session: including poster contest (award sponsered by HAP)

Tuesday, 13 December

09:00 → 10:30 Networking and policies

09:00 Report from MML

Speaker: Thomas Stöhlker (HI Jena)

Slides STÖHLKER

09:15 Report from MT

Speaker: Ties Behnke (DESY, Hamburg)

Slides BEHNKE

09:30 Report from KET

Speaker: Christian Zeitnitz (University of Wuppertal)

Slides ZEITNITZ

09:45 Report from KAT

Speaker: Christian Weinheimer (University of Münster)

Slides WEINHEIMER

10:00 Report from KHUK

Speaker: Frank Maas (JGU and HIM)

Slides MAAS

10:15 Report from KFB

Speaker: Oliver Boine-Frankenheim (TU Darmstadt)

Slides BOINE-FRANKENHEIM

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee

11:00 → 12:30 Wrap-up of parallel sessions

11:00 Neutrino Properties

Speaker: Markus Steidl (KIT)

Slides STEIDL

11:15 Antimatter

Speaker: Ulrich Nierste (KIT)

Slides NIERSTE

11:30 Origin of Mass

Speaker: Hartmut Wittig (JGU)

Slides WITTIG

11:50 Strongly interacting matter

Speaker: James Ritman (FZJ)

Slides RITMAN

12:10 Nature of dark matter

Speaker: Klaus Eitel (KIT)

Slides EITEL

12:30 → 12:35 Young investigator poster award

12:35 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:30 Highlight lectures

14:00 Gravitational waves

Speaker: Alex Nielsen

Slides NIELSEN

14:45 The Proton radius

Speaker: Randolf Pohl

15:30 → 15:45 Concluding Remarks