1st General Meeting of COST Action COSMIC WISPers (CA21106)

5 Sept 2023, 08:15 → 8 Sept 2023, 19:00 Europe/Rome

Aula Alessandro Leogrande ( Centro Polifunzionale Studenti (ex Palazzo delle Poste e Telegrafi), Bari (Italy).)

Alessandro Mirizzi

Axions and other very weakly interacting slim (m<GeV) particles (WISPs) are easily accommodated 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 aim of the COST Action COSMIC WISPers (CA21106) is to coordinate and support WISPs searches in a synergic way at the boundary between particle physics, astrophysics and cosmology. 

The CA21106 1st General Meeting will be held in Bari (Italy).  The objective of  the meeting is to review the status of the activities performed by the different Working Groups and to discuss the further directions of investigations. 

The Management Committee Meeting will take place in the afternoon of Friday 8th September.

Tuesday, 5 September

08:15 → 09:00 Registration

09:00 → 09:30 Welcome to CA21106 General Meeting

General meeting.pdf

09:30 → 10:50 WG3 (Astrophysics)

09:30 Stellar Probes of Feebly Interacting Particles, Circa 2023

Speaker: Edoardo Vitagliano

talk_BARIred.pdf

10:10 Axion Star Explosions and the Reionization History of the Universe

Speaker: Miguel Escudero (CERN)

Escudero_Bari_AxionStars.pdf

10:50 → 11:20 Coffee break

11:20 → 12:40 WG3 (Astrophysics)

11:20 Axion Clouds around Pulsars

Speaker: Samuel Witte (University of Barcelona)

Bari_Witte_pdf.pdf

12:00 Dark Matter in the Milky Way: shortcoming & dynamical tests

Speaker: María Benito Castano (Tartu Observatory)

mariabenito.pdf

14:30 → 15:30 Round Table

14:30 Report on WG3 Activities

Speaker: Andrea Caputo (CERN)

WGCaputo.pdf

15:00 Discussion

15:30 → 16:50 WG1 (Theory)

15:30 String theory realisations of early dark energy

Speaker: Ratul Mahanta (Bologna University)

SeminarEDE.pdf

15:50 Axionic Festina Lente

Speaker: Gerben Venken (Heidelberg ITP)

GerbenVenkenaxionFL.pdf

16:10 Testing BSM Physics with Gravitational Waves

Speaker: Gonzalo Villa (DAMTP - University of Cambridge)

GV-Testing-BSM-Physics-with-Gravitational-Waves.pdf

16:30 Low-scale leptogenesis with low-energy leptonic CP-violation

Speaker: Dr Alessandro Granelli (Bologna University)

Alessandro Granelli - Cosmic Presentation.pdf

15:30 → 16:50 WG3 (Astrophysics): WG2+WG3

15:30 QCD axion and density effects in stars

Speaker: Stefan Stelzl (EPFL( Lausanne))

Talk_ Bari_Stelzl.pdf

15:50 Radio Signatures of axion-like particles

Speaker: Guenter Sigl (Universität Hamburg)

axion-radio.pdf

16:10 Primordial Black Holes and micro-lensing

Speaker: Prof. Mimoza Hafizi (Tirana University)

Mimoza Hafizi, 5 september 16h10.pdf

16:30 Large scale structure data and DM fifth force

Speaker: Salvatore Bottaro (Tel Aviv University)

Bottaro_Bari.pdf

16:50 → 17:20 Coffee Break

17:20 → 18:20 WG1 (Theory)

17:20 → 18:20 WG3 (Astrophysics): WG2+WG3

17:20 Light bosons, superradiance and associated observables

Speaker: Caner Unal (Ben-Gurion)

BARITALK.pdf

17:40 Birefringence in CMB anisotropies due to cosmological pseudoscalar fields

Speaker: Matteo Galaverni (Vatican Observatory & INAF/OAS Bologna)

Galaverni_CosmicWispers_2023_v2.pdf

18:00 Photon to axion conversion during Big Bang Nucleosynthesis

Speaker: Manuel Masip (University of Granada)

talkBBN.pdf

Wednesday, 6 September

09:30 → 10:50 WG2 (Dark Matter and Cosmology)

09:30 Axion minivoids

Speaker: Dr Ciaran O'Hare (University of Sydney)

miniclusters_minivoids_ministreams.pdf

10:10 High-energy photons, magnetic fields and WISP searches

Speaker: Michael Kachelriess (NTNU)

kachelriess.pdf

10:50 → 11:20 Coffee break

11:20 → 12:40 WG2 (Dark Matter and Cosmology)

11:20 Formation of ultralight dark matter solar halos

Speaker: Marco Gorghetto (Weizmann Institute)

solarHalo_Bari.pdf

12:00 Probing ultralight and degenerate dark matter with galactic dynamics

Speaker: Dr Diego Blas (Barcelona, Autonoma Univ.)

Bari_Blas.pdf

14:30 → 15:30 Round Table

14:30 Report on WG2 Activities

Speaker: Edoardo Vitagliano

talk_MC.pdf

15:00 Discussion

15:30 → 16:30 WG2 (Dark Matter and Cosmology): WG2+WG3

15:30 Cosmological defects

Speaker: Dr Simone Blasi (Vrije University)

Blasi_Bari.pdf

15:50 Cosmic strings

Speaker: Dr Amelia Drew (Cambridge University)

COST_GM_Bari.pdf

16:10 Lattice simulations and axion properties: news from TWEXT

Speaker: Maria Paola Lombardo (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

MpL_CosWis_Bari23.pdf

15:30 → 16:30 WG4 (Direct searches)

15:30 Observation of anomalies supporting the existence of the new particle X17

Speaker: Dr Attila Krasznahorkay (CERN)

X17-Krasznahorkay.pptx

15:50 Search for ALPS at LHC

Speaker: Michele Gallinaro

gallinaro.pdf

16:10 Search for topological defect dark matter with a global network of optical magnetometers (GNOME)

Speaker: Daniel Gavilán Martín (JJohannes Gutenberg-University Mainz)

Bari_COST_meeting_GNOME_DW.pdf

16:30 → 17:00 Coffee break

Thursday, 7 September

09:30 → 10:50 WG1 (Theory)

09:30 Out of the dark: WISPs in String Theory and the Early Universe

Speaker: Prof. Joe Conlon (Oxford University)

ConlonCOST.pdf

10:10 Uncovering axion and BSM CP violations with EDMs

Speaker: Prof. Kiwoon Choi (IBS)

choi_bari.pdf

10:50 → 11:20 Coffee break

11:20 → 12:40 WG1 (Theory)

11:20 Prospects to scrutinise or smash SM*A*S*H

Speaker: Andreas Ringwald (DESY)

cost_action_cosmic_wispers_23_ar.pdf

12:00 Flavour in ALP effective field theories

Speaker: Sophie Renner (University of Glasgow)

Bari_ALPS2023.pdf

14:30 → 15:30 Round Table

14:30 Report on WG1 Activities

Speaker: Michele Cicoli (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

Cicoli_WG1.pdf

15:00 Discussion

15:30 → 16:30 WG1 (Theory)

15:30 Natural coordinates and consistency conditions for two-field models of inflation in fundamental theories of gravity and matter

Speaker: Clain Lazaroiu (UNED-Madrid and IFIN-HH Bucharest)

15:50 Dark photon dark matter from inflation

Speaker: Lorenzo Ubaldi

DarkPhoton_COST23.pdf

16:10 Inflationary Schwinger dark matter production

Speaker: Mar Bastero-Gil (Granada Univ.)

SchwingerDM_Bari23.pdf

15:30 → 16:30 WG4 (Direct searches)

15:30 Probing the Dark Sector with NA64 and POKER at CERN SPS

Speaker: Luca Marsicano (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

Marsicano_COST_Action.pdf

15:50 Search for WISPs with gravitational-wave detectors

Speaker: Lorenzo Pierini (INFN Roma)

Pierini_Search_WISPS_with_GWs.pdf

16:10 High energy resolution x-ray detectors for IAXO: advantages in pre- and post-discovery phases

Speaker: Loredana gastaldo (Kirchhoff Institute for Physics, Heidelberg University)

Gastaldo_MMC_IAXO_v2.pdf

16:30 → 17:00 Coffee break

17:00 → 17:45 WG5 (Dissemination and Outreach): Discussion on Dissemination and Outreach

17:00 Report on WG5 activities and discussion

Speaker: Loredana Gastaldo

COST_21106_Gastaldo_v1.pdf

18:00 → 19:00 WG5 (Dissemination and Outreach): Public talk

18:00 Alla scoperta dell'universo invisibile: materia oscura, onde gravitazionali e buchi neri

Speaker: Andrea Caputo

BariTalkCaputo.pdf

Friday, 8 September

09:00 → 10:20 WG4 (Direct searches)

09:00 Axion searches at DESY

Speaker: Dr Todd Kozlowski (DESY)

Axion experiments at DESY.pdf

09:40 CAST and more than CAST; A Dark Sector Probe for 20+ Years

Speaker: Prof. Serkant Cetin (Istinye University, Istanbul, Turkiye)

CASTpresentation-Serkant.pdf

CASTpresentation-Serkant.pptx

10:20 → 10:50 Coffee break

10:50 → 12:10 WG4 (Direct searches)

10:50 Searching for new light particles with PADME and fixed target experiments

Speaker: Venelin Kozhuharov (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

2023-09-08-LightParticlesPADME.pdf

11:30 Status of the VMB@CERN experiment

Speaker: Stepan Kunc (TUL Liberec)

BARI 2023_VMB@CERN_V2.pdf

12:10 → 13:10 Round Table

12:10 Report on WG4 activities

Speaker: Marin Karuza (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

WG4Report-WGMCmeeting2023_mk.pdf

12:40 Discussion

13:10 → 13:30 Conclusions

13:10 Conclusions

Speaker: Alessandro Mirizzi (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

acknowledgments.pdf

14:30 → 16:30 Management Committee Meeting

14:30 CA21106 Introduction

Speaker: Alessandro Mirizzi (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

MC2.pdf

WBP-AGA-CA21106-2_16347-6.pdf

14:50 WG 1 report

Speaker: Ilaria Brivio

CosmicWISPers WG1 - report.pdf

15:10 WG2 report

Speaker: Edoardo Vitagliano

talk_MC.pdf

15:30 WG3 report

Speaker: Andrea Caputo

WGCaputo.pdf

15:50 WG 4 report

Speaker: Marin Karuza (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

WG4Report-WGMCmeeting2023.pptx

16:10 WG5 report

Speaker: Loredana gastaldo (Kirchhoff Institute for Physics, Heidelberg University)

COST_21106_Gastaldo_v2.pdf

16:30 → 16:50 Coffee break

16:50 → 19:00 Management Committee Meeting

16:50 ECI Committee Report

Speaker: Pierluca Carenza

Pres_COST_bari.pdf

17:05 Grant Awarding Coordinator report

Speaker: Venelin Kozhuharov (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

GrantAwardingCommittee.pdf

17:20 Report from Gender and Diversity Advisor

Speaker: Prof. Deniz Sunar Cerci

CA21106_MC_Meeting_September_2023-2.pdf

17:40 Draft of W&B Plan 2024

Speaker: Alessandro Mirizzi (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

MC2.pdf

WBP-AGA-CA21106-2_16347-6.pdf