<font size="+1">International Symposium</font> <br><i>Advances in Dark Matter and Particle Physics</i> 2016

23 Oct 2016, 18:00 → 27 Oct 2016, 18:00 Europe/Rome

Messina (Italy)

International Symposium
Advances in Dark Matter and Particle Physics 2016
Will focus on the latest results of running experiments and new ideas in dark matter and dark force searches at accelerators.

Organized by:
University of Messina
Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale
Fondazione Bonino-Pulejo (Messina)

Sunday, 23 October

18:00 → 19:30 Registration

19:30 → 21:00 Welcome Reception

Monday, 24 October

09:00 → 09:10 Opening

09:10 → 11:10 DM Invisible Search

Convener: Marco Battaglieri (GE)

09:10 → 09:40 Status of positron extracted beams

Speaker: Paolo Valente (ROMA1)

Slides admpp_valente.pptx

09:40 → 10:10 PADME at LNF experiment

Speaker: Mauro Raggi (ROMA1)

Slides RaggiADMPP.pptx

10:10 → 10:40 Dark Searches and Gamma Gamma Physics at KLOE

Speaker: Dr Francesca Curciarello (Dipartimento di Fisica-Università di Messina)

Slides Curciarello_ADMPP16.pdf

10:40 → 11:10 Status of the experiment on dark photon search at VEPP-3

Speaker: Dr Igor Rachek

Slides rachek_admpp.pdf

11:10 → 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 → 12:00 Overview of ALICE results on hadronic resonance production

Speaker: Angela Badala' (CT)

Slides ADMPP_Badala_v4.pdf

11:30 → 13:00 Physics at Colliders

Convener: Prof. Henryk Czyz (Inst. of Physics, Univ. of Silesia)

12:00 → 12:30 The Physics of Hadronic Tau decays

Speaker: Emilie Passemar (Indiana University/JLab)

Slides EPassemar_Messina.pdf

12:30 → 13:00 Light mesons at BES3

Speaker: Shuangshi Fang (Inistitute of High Energy Physics)

Slides LMD-BESIII-Messina.pdf

13:30 → 14:45 Lunch Break

15:00 → 15:25 Bg in annihilation/fixed target experiment

Speaker: Prof. Venelin Kozhuharov (Univerity of Sofia "St. Kl. Ohridski")

Slides 2016-10-24_Venelin.pdf

15:00 → 16:45 Tools

Convener: Paolo Valente (ROMA1)

15:25 → 15:50 Geant4 Standard and Low Energy EM libraries

Speaker: Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

Slides Geant4EmStLowE.pdf

15:50 → 16:15 Monte Carlo generators for hadron physics: updates on Phokhara and Ekhara generators

Speaker: Prof. Henryk Czyz (Inst. of Physics, Univ. of Silesia)

Slides czyz_messina.pdf

16:15 → 16:35 Radiative corrections in e+e- collisions with the BabaYaga Event Generator

Speaker: Carlo M. Carloni Calame (PV)

Slides carloni_1.pdf

16:35 → 16:45 Discussion

16:45 → 17:05 Coffee Break

17:05 → 18:05 Public lecture

In Italian

17:05 → 18:05 Una Luminosa Fabbrica di Materia Oscura

Speaker: Marco Battaglieri (GE)

Slides PL-Me2016-battaglieri.pdf

Tuesday, 25 October

09:00 → 09:30 APEX experiment at JLab which will take production data in spring 2018

Speaker: Gregg Franklin (Carnegie Mellon University)

Slides APEX_Messina_Franklin.pdf

09:00 → 12:00 DM Fixed Target

Convener: Jim Alexander (Cornell University)

09:30 → 10:00 The HPS Experiments

Speaker: Marzio De Napoli (CT)

Slides denapoli_messina2016.pdf

10:00 → 10:30 The Beam Dump Experiment (BDX) @ JLAB

Speaker: Mariangela Bondi (CT)

Slides ADMPP16_bondi.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 The Light Dark Matter Experiment (LDMX)

Speaker: Prof. Jeremiah Mans

Slides DarkMessina_10_2016_LDMX_Mans.pdf

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 → 12:00 JLab dark photon search experiment APEX and the speed of light anisotropy investigation

Speaker: Dr Bogdan Wojtsekhowski (TJNAF)

Slides One-way_speed_of_light-Messina.pptx.pdf

12:00 → 13:00 DM at Colliders

Convener: Dr Vladimir Druzhinin (BINP, Novosibirsk, Russia)

12:00 → 12:30 MMAPS at Cornell

Speaker: Jim Alexander (Cornell University)

Slides MMAPS_-_Messina_Workshop.pdf

12:30 → 13:00 Recent results on search for new physics at BABAR

Speaker: Dr Benjamin Oberhof (LNF)

Slides ADMPP_Oberhof_v3.pdf

13:30 → 14:45 Lunch Break

15:00 → 16:30 Extended Searches

Convener: Dr Bogdan Wojtsekhowski (TJNAF)

15:00 → 15:30 The 8Be anomaly and the fifth force

Speaker: Prof. Attila Krasznahorkay (Inst. of Nucl. Res. of the Hung. Acad. of Sci. (ATOMKI), Head, Division of Nuclear Physics)

Slides Krasznahorkay-Messina.pptx

15:30 → 16:00 Protophobic Fifth Force

Speaker: Iftah Galon

Slides Galon_Protophobic_2016.pdf

16:00 → 16:30 Measuring gravitational effects on antimatter in space

Speaker: Prof. Giovanni Maria Piacentino (INFN sezione di Lecce)

16:30 → 17:00 Coffee Break

17:00 → 18:00 Round Table & Discussion

20:30 → 22:30 Social Dinner

Wednesday, 26 October

09:00 → 09:30 DM at Asimmetric Colliders

Speaker: Dr Bogdan Wojtsekhowski (TJNAF)

Slides VAC_Messina_2016.pptx.pdf

09:00 → 11:00 Extended Search

Convener: Venelin Kozhuharov (Univerity of Sofia "St. Kl. Ohridski")

09:30 → 10:00 General features of spontaneous baryogenesis

Speaker: Mrs Elena Arbuzova (University "Dubna")

Slides Messina-ArbuzovaE.pdf

10:00 → 10:30 Searching for Dark Matter Candidates with Compton Gamma-Sources

Speaker: Prof. Andrei Afanasev (George Washington University)

Slides Afanasev-Messina16.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Positronium studies within the QUPLAS experiment

Speaker: Stefano Aghion (MI)

Slides QUPLAS_Messina_AMDPP.pdf

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 → 12:00 Problems with the sources of the observed gravitational waves and their resolution

Speaker: Prof. Alexander Dolgov (FE)

Slides messina-GW-prblms.pdf

11:30 → 13:00 SM and Beyond

Convener: Gregg Franklin (Carnegie Mellon University)

12:00 → 12:30 Excited lepton baryogenesis

Speaker: Dr Dmitry Zhuridov (University of Silesia)

Slides zhuridov_10-2016_messina.pdf

12:30 → 13:00 A high performance tracker in the forward angle experiments

Speaker: Prof. Nilanga Liyanage (University of Virginia)

Slides Forward_Tracking__Messina.pdf

13:30 → 14:45 Lunch Break

15:00 → 16:15 (g-2)mu Anomaly / Colliders

Convener: Mauro Raggi (ROMA1)

15:00 → 15:25 Measuring the Leading Order Hadronic Contribution to the Muon g-2 in the Space-like Region

Speaker: Carlo M. Carloni Calame (PV)

Slides carloni_2.pdf

15:25 → 15:50 chi_c1 and chi_c2 production at e+e- colliders

Speaker: Szymon Tracz

Slides messina_tracz.pdf

15:50 → 16:15 Recent results from the CMD-3 detector

Speaker: Mr Aleksandr Popov (Budker Institute Of Nuclear Physics (BINP))

Slides aspopov_messina2016.pptx

16:20 → 16:50 Coffee Break

17:00 → 18:00 PADME/MMPAS closed meeting

Thursday, 27 October

09:00 → 11:05 Physics at Colliders / Low Energy

Convener: Dr Giuseppe Mandaglio (Department of Physics - University of Messina and INFN Sezione di Catania)

09:00 → 09:25 Study of e+e- annihilation to hadrons at low energies at BABAR

Speaker: Dr Vladimir Druzhinin (BINP, Novosibirsk, Russia)

Paper druzhinin.pdf

Slides druzhinin_admpp2016.pdf

09:25 → 09:50 Recent results from the SND detector

Speaker: Dr Aleksandr KOROL (Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Novosibirsk)

Slides korol-messina-2016-1.pdf

09:50 → 10:15 The End Point Tagger physics program at A2@MAMI – η’ and others

Speaker: Mr Oliver Steffen (Institut fuer Kernphysik, Universitaet Mainz)

Slides o.steffen_EPT_physics_program_at_a2_at_mami.pdf

10:15 → 10:40 Doubly-polarised pion photoproduction on the nucleon at MAMI

Speaker: Susanna Costanza (PV)

Slides Costanza_ADMPP16.pdf

10:40 → 11:05 Compton Scattering Program Studying Nucleon Polarizabilities

Speaker: Philippe Martel

Slides Messina_2016_pmartel.pdf

11:05 → 11:20 Closout

11:20 → 11:40 Coffee Break