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Testing the hypothesis of particle dark matter is one of the key questions in Physics today. While no conclusive experimental evidence has been found so far, a new generation of experiments promise a big leap forward in the next decade. Future indirect, direct and collider experiments will be conjointly in reach to probe the largest part of the parameter space of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), the long-standing canonical dark matter candidates. By this, a confirmation or manifest rejection of the WIMP hypothesis is in reach during the next 10 years.
The goal of this symposium is to stimulate exchange between these various next-generation WIMP searches. Therefore, it brings together Japanese and international researchers from all relevant experimental and theoretical fields. The latter include up-to-date particle and interaction models, astrophysical constraints, and the status of next-generation instruments. Additionally, we aim at a special focus on the neutrino floor background for future direct searches, and searches for DM signatures in charged astroparticles. By this, the symposium helps to foster collaborations and to explore the complementarity of the different search strategies.
Main Topics:
- Dark matter theory
- Collider experiments for dark matter searches
- Dark matter direct detection experiments
- Dark matter indirect detection experiments
- Astrophysical constraints on dark matter distributions
We encourage especially young researchers and students to attend the symposium.
Venue:
6F Conference Hall, Kashiwa research complex, Kashiwa Campus, The University of Tokyo
Confirmed Invited Speakers (as of October 3, 2019):
- Andrea Albert (LANL)
- Yoichi Asaoka (Waseda)
- Cristiano Galbiati (Princeton)
- Graciela Gelmini (UCLA)
- Nagisa Hiroshima (Riken)
- Moritz Hütten (MPP)
- Fabio Iocco (Imp. Coll. London/U. Napoli)
- Rubén López-Coto (INFN Padova, *remote talk)
- Shigeki Matsumoto (Kavli IPMU)
- Takeo Moroi (U. Tokyo)
- Tatsuhiro Naka (Toho)
- Ciaran O'Hare (University of Sydney)
- Yutaka Ohira (U. Tokyo)
- Priscilla Pani (DESY)
- Paolo Salucci (SISSA)
- Ryu Sawada (U. Tokyo/CERN)
- Kate Scholberg (Duke, *remote talk)
- Satoshi Shirai (Kavli IPMU)
- Masahiro Teshima (ICRR/MPP)
- Koji Terashi (U. Tokyo/CERN)
- Masaki Yamashita (ICRR)
- Gabrijela Zaharijas (U. Nova Gorica)
Sponsors:
This symposium is supported in part by:
- MEXT Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas:
16K21730 for Shoji Asai (PI, main hosts),
19H05802 for Shigetaka Moriyama (co-PI, main hosts),
18H05542 for Masahiro Ibe (PI),
18H04359 for Kohei Hayashi (Publicly), - Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S):
17H06131 for Masahiro Teshima (PI, main hosts), - Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B):
17H02878 for Shigeki Matsumoto (co-PI), - and the grant for ICRR’s Fiscal Year 2019 Inter-University Research Program (PI: Moritz Hütten)
