1st Training School COST Action COSMIC WISPers (CA21106)

11 Sept 2023, 07:55 → 14 Sept 2023, 20:00 Europe/Rome

Sala Conferenze (Rettorato Universita' del Salento, Lecce (Italy))

Daniele Montanino (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

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 1st Training School will be held in Lecce (Italy). 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.

Monday, 11 September

08:15 Registration

1 Welcome to COST Action CA21106 1st Training School

Training School.pdf

2 WG3 - WISPs from stars

Speaker: Georg Raffelt (Max Planck Institute for Physics)

Wisp-1-PDF.pdf

11:00 Coffee break

3 WG3 - WISPs from stars

Speaker: Georg Raffelt (Max Planck Institute for Physics)

GW170817.mp4

Wisp-2-PDF.pdf

13:00 Extended Coffee Break

4 WG3 Tutorial

Speaker: Dr Andrea Caputo (CERN)

16:00 Coffee Break

5 Discussion

6 Topics in science communication

Speaker: Giuliana Galati (Bari Univ.)

Tuesday, 12 September

7 WG1 - Axion theory and model building

Speaker: Kiwoon Choi (IBS, Daejon)

COST_choi_1.pdf

11:00 Coffee Break

8 WG1 - Axion theory and model building

Speaker: Kiwoon Choi (IBS, Daejon)

COST_choi_2.pdf

13:00 Extended Coffee Break

9 WG1 Tutorial

Speaker: Dr Nicole Righi (King's College)

16:00 Coffee Break

10 Discussion

Student's talks

11 In searh of axion-like particles

Speaker: Radoslav Simeonov (Sofia University "St. Kl. Ohridski")

Lecce-2023.pdf

12 Axion Dark Matter Simulations with Adaptive Mesh Refinement

Speaker: Mathieu Kaltschmidt (CAPA, Universidad de Zaragoza)

Kaltschmidt_Lecce.pdf

13 Impact of axion decay on the extragalactic background light

Speaker: Sara Porras Bedmar (University of Hamburg and Quantum Universe Research School)

Cost_SPorras.pdf

14 Using gravitational waves to detect axion miniclusters

Speaker: Juan Urrutia (KBFI)

CS_presentation.pdf

15 Axion field tomography: cosmic birefringence from the epochs of recombination and reionization

Speaker: Patricia Diego Palazuelos (Instituto de Física de Cantabria (CSIC-UC))

CostAxionSchool_PDP.pdf

16 Getting the most on supernova bounds on axions

Speaker: Alessandro Lella (Univesity of Bari & INFN Bari)

COST_Training_School2023_Lella.pdf

17 Constraining Ultra-Light Scalar Dark Matter with Pulsars

Speaker: Pavel Kůs (CEICO, Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences)

PavelKus_Tuesday_CostAction_TrainingSchool_Presentation.pdf

18 Massive Gravitons in Very Special Relativity: Theory and Observations

Speaker: Alessandro Santoni (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile / University of Technology of Vienna)

VSRbinaries.pdf

Wednesday, 13 September

19 WG2 - Axion cosmology and cosmo bounds

Speaker: Ciaran O'Hare (Sidney Univ.)

axioncosmology.pdf

11:00 Coffee Break

20 WG2 - Axion cosmology and cosmo bounds

Speaker: Prof. Ciaran O'Hare (Sidney Univ.)

axioncosmology.pdf

13:00 Extended Coffee Break

21 WG2 Tutorial

Speaker: Mathieu Kaltschmidt (Zaragoza Univ.)

Cosmo_Tutorial_CosmicWISPers.ipynb

Cosmo_Tutorial_CosmicWISPers_solutions.ipynb

Cosmo_Tutorial_final.pdf

16:00 Coffee Break

22 Discussion

Student's talks

23 Quadratic coupling of axions to photons

Speaker: Carl Beadle (UNIGE)

QuadraticAxionTalk.pdf

24 First MADMAX Campaign: methods, and future plans

Speaker: Juan Pablo Arcila Maldonado (Max Planck Institute for Physics)

Cosmic_WISPers_MADMAX.pdf

25 Analysis of a Transition Edge Sensor data for the ALPS II experiment.

Speaker: José Alejandro Rubiera Gimeno (DESY)

Analysis of a Transition Edge Sensor data for the ALPS II experiment.pdf

26 WISPFI: WISP Searches on a Fiber Interferometer

Speaker: Marios Maroudas (University of Hamburg)

2023_09_13 - Marios - COST Training School.pdf

27 Direct Dark Matter Searches with ALPS II's TES detector

Speaker: Christina Schwemmbauer (DESY)

Cosmic_WISPers_Schwemmbauer.pdf

28 Detecting Dark Photons with Superconducting Radio-frequency Cavities

Speaker: Yanjie Zeng (ITP, CAS)

Detecting DP with SRF.pdf

29 Plasmonic resonant detection of WIMP

Speaker: carlo alfisi

presentationCarloAlfisi.pdf

Thursday, 14 September

30 WG4 - Axion experiments

Speaker: Giuseppe Ruoso (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

2023GR_LecceP1.pdf

11:00 Coffee Break

31 WG4 - Axion experiments

Speaker: Prof. Giuseppe Ruoso (INFN, Padua)

2023GR_LecceP2.pdf

VideoRun2022.mp4

13:00 Extended Coffee Break

32 WG4 Tutorial

Speaker: Antonios Gardikiotis (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

1st Training School COST Action COSMIC WISPers.pdf

16:00 Coffee Break

33 Discussion

17:30 Farewell