Newsletter November 2024

Thursday 28 Nov 2024, 10:00 → 12:00 Europe/Rome

This is November’s edition of the newsletter of the COST action. The aim is to keep you updated on recent and upcoming conferences and postdoc positions on subjects related to WISPs.

 

Cosmic Wispers preprints

 

A Model-Independent Bound on Light Dark Photon Dark Matter

Naoya Kitajima,  Shota Nakagawa,  Fuminobu Takahashi, and Wen Yin

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.17964

We derive a robust bound on dark photon dark matter scenarios where the dark photon mass is generated through the Higgs mechanism, based on the requirement that symmetry breaking must occur sufficiently early in the universe. For renormalizable Higgs potentials, our bound reads m_gamma' /q_H e_H >> 60 eV (2\pi/lambda)^(1/4), where m_gamma' is the dark photon mass, e_H is the gauge coupling, q_H is the charge of the dark Higgs boson, and lambda is the Higgs quartic coupling. This places a stringent bound on the kinetic mixing with photons, especially at masses below 10^-11 eV.

 

We encourage participants in the COST action to send us a small summary, typically smaller than the abstract, of their own articles that will appear in the arXiv (after they appear, with their arXiv numbers). The summary will be disseminated in the newsletter.

Send email to 

Alessandro Lella alessandro.lella@ba.infn.it

Damiano Fiorillo damianofg@gmail.com

with subject: preprint summary for Cosmic WISPers newsletter

 

PhD/Postdoc/Junior Positions

• November:

• Postdoctoral Fellow on high-energy neutrino observations with IceCube and future experiments, Kingston link

• Postdoc position, Potsdam U. link

• Theory and Phenomenology of elementary particles and astroparticles, Frascati link

• Theory and phenomenology of elementary particles and astroparticles, Frascati link

• Postdoctoral Fellow on high-energy neutrino observations with IceCube and future experiments, Queen’s U. Kingston link

• Two postdoctoral fellows in axion searches with metamaterials, OKC, Stockholm link

• Research positions in Astrophysics, Lisbon, IST, link

• Postdoc job position in Experimental Neutrino Physics, Louisiana State University link

• 20 positions for Post-Doctoral senior level in Experimental Physics, INFN link

• 15 positions for Post-Doctoral senior level in Theoretical Physics, INFN link

• ICTP Postdoc positions, Trieste link

 

• December:

• Postdoctoral positions at the Albert Einstein Center link

• Postdoctoral positions in Astroparticle Physics and Dark Matter Phenomenology, LPTHE, Paris link

• Postdoc in the MPP Theory Department, Max Planck Inst. Garching link

• Postdoctoral research scientist position in XENONnT, Shenzhen link

• Postdoc on dark matter direct detection, Westlake University, link

• Postdoctoral Positions, IFAE, Barcelona link

• Lecturer in Physics at King’s College link

• Postdoctoral Positions in Theoretical Developments for searches of high frequency Gravitational Waves in cavities. Funded by ERC link

• PhD Student in cryogenic detector systems, DESY link

• Postdoctoral Position in Particle Physics Phenomenology, Astro-particle Physics, and Cosmology, Chungnam National University (Korea) link

• Research Associate-Theory Division, Fermilab (USA) link

• UNDARK postdoctoral positions in theoretical astroparticle physics and cosmology, IAC (Spain) link

 

• January

• Call for PhD students, RWTH Aachen University in Aachen, Germany link

 

Conferences

• November

• 3rd Workshop on New Physics from Galaxy Clustering link

• 9th IBS-IFT-MultiDark Workshop: Dark World to Swampland 2024 link

 

• December

• International conference on Neutrinos and Dark Matter (NuDM-2024) link

• Particle Physics and Cosmology in the Himalayas (BCVSPIN 2024) link

• Bejing Dark Matter Conference and th BNU Dark Matter Conference in 2024 link

 

• January

• 21st Rencontres du Vietnam: Theory meeting experiment: Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (TMEX 2025) link

 

• February

• CERN Neutrino Platform Pheno Week 2025 link

 

• March

• 1st UNDARK School on Astrophysical and Cosmological probes of Beyond the Standard Model link

 

• April

• My Favourite Dark Matter Model link

 

• May

• Dark matter and neutrinos link

 

• June

• Dark Matter 2025: From the Smallest to the Largest Scales (DM2025) link

 

• September

• Invisibles25 Workshop link

• 3rd General Meeting of the COST Action: Cosmic WISPers (CA21106) link

• 3rd Training School of the COST Action: Cosmic WISPers (CA21106) link