Light Dark Matter

Date:	April 30-May 1 2010
Location:	University of California Davis
Building:	UC Davis Conference Center

Abstract:

The recent announcement by the CoGeNT collaboration of a signal consistent with 10 GeV dark matter has renewed interest in “light” dark matter. There are a number of other experiments that also have data in this energy range: CDMS, CRESST, DAMA, LUX, and XENON. This workshop will bring together experimentalists from all these experiments and theorists to discuss present and future signals and constraints.

Program

Friday

9:00-9:15 Welcome
9:15-9:45 Neal Weiner Theories of light dark matter mp4
9:45-10:30 Discussion
10:30-10:45 Coffee break
10:45-11:15 Juan Collar COGENT results mp4
11:15-12:00 Discussion
12:00-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:00 Fabio Cappella DAMA results mp4
2:00-2:45 Discussion
2:45-3:00 Coffee break
3:00-3:30 Gondolo TBA
3:30-3:50 Prashant Saraswat Exothermic Dark Matter mp4
3:50-4:15 Discussion
4:15-4:30 Coffee break
4:30-5:30 General discussion
7:00 Dinner Suggested restaurants

Saturday

9:00-9:30 Jeter Hall TBA
9:30-10:15 Discussion
10:15-10:30 Coffee break
10:30-11:00 Dan McKinsey Liquefied noble gases as targets for light dark matter mp4
11:00-11:45 Discussion
11:45-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:00 Peter Sorensen XENON10 constraints on light dark matter mp4
2:00-2:45 Discussion
2:45-3:00 Coffee break
3:00-3:30 Rafael Lang XENON100 sensitivity to light dark matter mp4
3:30-3:45 Jason Kumar WIMPless Dark Matter mp4
3:45-4:15 Discussion Scintillation Efficiency of Low Energy Nuclear Recoils mp4
4:15-4:30 Coffee break
4:30-5:30 Wrap-up discussion

Participants

Andreas Albrecht (UC Davis)
Daniele Alves (SLAC/Stanford)
Nathaniel Bowden (LLNL)
Marusa Bradac (UCDavis)
Belkis Cabrera-Palmer (Sandia National Laboratories)
Yi Cai (UCD)
Haiying Cai (UCD)
Fabio Cappella (INFN Roma/DAMA)
Spencer Chang (UCD)
Hsin-Chia Cheng (UCD)
Max Chertok (UCD)
Maxwell Chertok (UC Davis)
Ami Choi (UCD)
Juan Collar (U. Chicago/CoGeNT)
John Conway (UCD)
Nathaniel Craig (Stanford )
Justin R. Dhooghe (UC Davis)
Robin Erbacher (UCD)
Rouven Essig (SLAC)
John Felde (UCD)
Liam Fitzpatrick (Boston U.)
Patrick Fox (Fermilab)
Iris Gebauer (UC Santa Cruz)
Paolo Gondolo (University of Utah)
Jack Gunion (UCD)
Pooja Gupta (University of California, Davis)
Jeter Hall (FNAL/CDMS)
Cara Henson (UCD)
Nemanja Kaloper (UCD)
Jared Kaplan (SLAC)
Kareem Kazkaz (LLNL)
Lloyd Knox (UC Davis)
Jason Kumar (U. Hawaii)
Jason Kumar (University of Hawaii)
Piyush Kumar (University of California, Berkeley)
Rafael F. Lang (Columbia University)
Rafael Lang (Columbia/XENON100)
Mariangela Lisanti (Stanford/SLAC)
Markus Luty (UCD)
Jeremy Mardon (UC Berkeley)
Dan McKinsey (Yale/LUX)
John McRaven (UCD)
Jeremy Mock (UCD)
Michele Papucci (IAS)
David Pellett (UCDAVIS)
Stephano Profumo (UC Santa Cruz)
Marco Regis (University of Cape Town)
Prashant Saraswat (Stanford)
Philip Schuster (SLAC)
Matthew Searle (UC Davis)
Peter Sorensen (LLNL/LUX)
Michael Squires (UCD)
David Stancato (UCD)
Bob Svoboda (UCD/LUX)
Natalia Toro (Stanford)
Mani Tripathi (UCD/LUX)
Neal Weiner (NYU)
Kathryn Zurek (University of Michigan)