Scientific Programme

The 4th Patras Workshop on Axions, WIMPs and WISPs

will be held at DESY, Hamburg Site /Germany on 18-21 June 2008, in the main auditorium (building 5).

Agenda for printing
Agenda as of June 18, 2008 (30KB) (PDF)

Wednesday 18/6/2008


Title/Topic	Speaker	Abstract
Welcome	A. Wagner (Chair of DESY Directorate)
	V. Anastassopoulos (Vice-rector of the University of Patras)
	J. Mnich (DESY deputy director in charge of High Energy Physics and Astroparticle Physics)
The pysics case for WIMPs, axions, WISPs
The physics case for WIMPs, axions, WISPs	J. Jäckel
Theory of WIMPs	D. G. Cerdeno
Coffe Break
Theory of axions	P. Sikivie
From axions to WISPs	A. Ringwald
Accelerator based searches	P. Schleper
Lunch
Signals from astrophysical sources I: solar axions and axion dark matter
Limits on axions, WIMPs and WISPs from astrophysics and cosmology	J. Redondo
Axion hot dark matter bounds	G. Raffelt
Review of cosmological bounds on warm dark matter and astrophysical bounds on decaying dark matter	O. Ruchayskiy	Link
The upgraded performance of CAST	J. Ruz
Tokyo axion helioscope	M. Minowa	Link
Coffee Break
First tests on a single photon detector in the eV range at CAST	G. Cantatore	Link
Hunting solar axions in low Earth orbit	P. Huber	Link
Discussion
End

Thursday 19/6/2008


Title/Topic	Speaker	Abstract
Direct searches for Dark Matter WIMPs
First results from DAMA/LIBRA	A. Incicchitti	Link
Status of the KIMS experiment	S. C. Kim	Link
Status of XENON 100	M. Schumann	Link
Coffee Break
Expect. background at XENON 100	E. Tziaferi	Link
Recent results from the CDMS-II experiment	T. Bruch	Link
Results of the CRESST commissioning run 2007	J.-C. Lanfranchi	Link
The Argon Dark Matter experiment (ArDM)	C. Regenfus	Link
Lunch
DRIFT	N. Spooner
Signals from astrophysical sources II: high energy photon experiments
Detection of distant AGN by MAGIC: the transparency of the Universe to high-energy photons	M. Roncadelli	Link
Indirect search for dark matter with H.E.S.S.	J. Ripken	Link
Coffee Break
X ray constraints on late decaying dark matter majorons	S. Riemer-Sorensen	Link
Polarization measurements of gamma-ray bursts and axion-photon coupling	A. Sakharov
Spectral Signatures of Photon-Axion Oscillations from Compact Astrophysical Sources	D. Chelouche	Link
Discussion
End
Evening Lecture	P. Sikivie	Link

Friday 20/6/2008


Title/Topic	Speaker	Abstract
Laboratory searches for axions, WISPs
BMV project: Final results on photon oscillations into massive particles	M. Fouché	Link
Experiments at Jefferson Lab./Yale	K. Baker
GammeV: Fermilab axionlike particle photon regeneration results	W. Wester
Coffee Break
Open Access in High energy physics - Overview and future challenges	M. Köhler	Link
Testing Chameleon models in the laboratory	A. Weltman
GammeV: Fermilab chameleon search and future ideas	A. Chou
Lunch
Status of OSQAR	A. Siemko
Status of the ALPS Experiment	K. Ehret	Link
Coffee Break
New experimental developments
Wide aperture superconducting magnets	S. Russenschuck
Lasers for the axion-like particle search	M. Hildebrandt	Link
Raising WISP production rate by use of optical cavities	T. Meier	Link
Status and perspectives of experiments testing gravitation	H. Meyer	Link
Discussion
End

Saturday 21/6/2008


Title/Topic	Speaker	Abstract
New theoretical developments
Report from the DESY theory “calculationshop” on WISPs	Jörg Jäckel, Andreas Ringwald
Continuous Axion Photon Duality, Axion Photon Oscillations, Solitons and Splitting	E. Guendelman	Link
Anomaly induced effects in a magnetic field	O. Ruchayskiy
Pulsed Plasma Generator as Laboratory Source of axions or ALPs	J. Jacoby and K. Zioutas	Link
Coffee Break
New ideas and experimental approaches
The enigmatic sun	K. Zioutas	Link
Free-electron lasers at DESY: Status, challenges, and opportunities	T. Laarmann
Lunch
Polarization measurements and their perspectives: PVLAS Phase II	G. Cantatore	Link
WISP hunting - some new experimental ideas	J. Jäckel	Link
Microwave Cavity Search for 0.1 meV Axions	P. L. Slocum	Link
Conclusions
End of workshop
Departure to harbor and St. Pauli beach club