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Novel Searches for Dark Matter with Neutrino Telescopes

November 17 – 19, 2008

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Why have this workshop now ?

• Overwhelming evidence for the existence of Dark Matter– … but what is its nature ?

• Fast progress on the experimental side, entering an exciting era of precision measurements in astroparticle physics

• Review new instrumentation, their performance and latest theoretical developments

• Develop an optimal analysis strategy to search for Dark Matter

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Workshop Strategy

• Bring together experts from experimental and theoretical particle astrophysics (with a focus on Neutrino Telescopes)

• Provide an updated look at the neutrino/photon detection capabilities of Super-K / IceCube+DeepCore / Fermi and recent theoretical developments

• Explore prospects for detection of dark matter annihilation / decay signals in the Milky Way

• Generate new ideas for how to best exploit dark matter signals

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Principal Topics

1.Dark Matter searches with Earth and Solar WIMPs

2.General signals from Halo Dark Matter

3.Specifics of the Milky Way neutrino signals

4.Detection capabilities for these signals

5.New ideas

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Workshop Structure

• Monday– Introduction– Review latest developments and

establish were we are

• Tuesday– Explore Novel Searches for Dark

Matter

• Wednesday– DarkSUSY Tutorial

Photons, neutrinos,leptons, etc …

Annihilation rate ~2

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Workshop Program

8:00 - 8:30 “Breakfast” (PRB 4138)

8:30 - 10:00 “Introduction” (PRB 4138)

• Welcome (Gee/Walker)

• Discussion of wish lists and workshop goals (Beacom/Rott/all)

• Reiteration/definition of goals (all)

• Dark Matter annihilation simulation (Edsjö)

10:00 - 10:30 “Coffee Break” (PRB 4138)

10:30 - 11:00 “Astro Coffee” (4054 McPherson)

11:00 - 12:30 “Dark Matter Properties and Halo Distributions” (PRB 4138)

• SUSY Dark Matter (Mustafayev)

• Dark Matter Halo Distributions and Properties (Diemand)

• Dark Matter Halo Substructure and its relevance for signals (Siegal-Gaskins)

12:30 – 13:30 “Lunch”(PRB 4138)

13:30 – 15:30 “Expected indirect DM signals”(PRB 4138)

• Upper Bounds on Dark Matter annihilation cross-section (Mack)

• Dark Matter annihilation/decay scenarios (Palomares-Ruiz)

• Very high mass Dark Matter (Murase)

15:30 – 16:00 “Coffee Break”(PRB 4138)

16:00 – 18:00 “Instrumentation”(PRB 4138)

• Fermi overview (Stamatikos)

• Fermi on-going searches for Dark Matter and plans (Winer)

• Overview and Searches at Super K (Itow)

• Overview IceCube (Kuehn)

• Overview of IceCube/AMANDA WIMP Searches (Wikstrom)

• Overview Deep Core (Grant)

19:00 “Dinner at a Cap City” Leave from Holiday Inn or directly from

PRB

Day 1

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Workshop Program

8:00-8:30 “Breakfast” (PRB 4138)

8:30-10:00 “Exp. Signatures and Backgrounds” (PRB 4138)

• Astro Neutrinos and Gamma rays (Pavlidou)

• Understanding atm. neutrinos and reduce this background (Yüksel)

• Neutrino Flavor Signatures (Kowalski)

10:00 – 10:30 “Coffee break” (PRB 4138)

10:30 – 11:00 “Astro Coffee” (4054 McPherson)

11:00 – 12:30 “How to perform galactic Halo search (theo. perspective/emphasis) ?” (PRB 4138)

• Broader Discussion (facilitated by Beacom)

12:30 – 14:00 “Lunch” (PRB4138)

14:00 – 15:30 “How to perform galactic Halo search (exp. perspective/emphasis) ?” (PRB 4138)

• Broader Discussion (facilitated by Rott)

15:30 – 16:00 “Coffee Break” (PRB 4138)

16:00 – 18:00 “Wrap up/discussion” (PRB 4138)

8:00 - 8:30 “Breakfast” (PRB 4138)

8:30 - 10:30 “Dark SUSY tutorial (Introduction)” (PRB 4138)

10:30 - 11:00 “Astro Coffee” (4054 McPherson)

11:00 – 12:30 “DarkSUSY Tutorial” (PRB 4138)

12:30 – 13:30 “Lunch” (PRB 4138)

13:30 – 15:30 “Hands-on DarkSUSY tutorial” (PRB 4138)

Day 2 Day 3

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Find your way …

Astro Coffee takes place each morning at 10:30am in the Astronomy Conference Room (4054 McPherson)

Holiday Inn

PRB 4138

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Dinner tonight

Cap City Fine Diner

Dinner: 7:00 PMAddress:

1299 Olentangy River Road,

Columbus, Ohio 43212

Phone:(614) 291-FOOD (3663)  

Executive Chef: Larry MacDonald

Parking Info:

Complimentary parking available in the restaurant lot.

How to get there:

Several local workshop participants will drive and can offer rides. Holiday Inn Shuttle can also take participants there. Can have drinks at the bar before 7pm.

Holiday Inn