Linear Collider Connections to Astrophysics and Cosmology

AGENDA

Thursday, January 8, 1:45-3:45
     Neutralino Dark Matter (joint session with SUSY WG)

Chair: Jonathan Feng
Room: ROB C

1:45 - 2:05 Accurate neutralino relic density Paolo Gondolo, U of Utah
2:10 - 2:30 Experimental Issues in CDM-inspired cMSSM Scenarios Marco Battaglia, UC Berkeley
2:35 - 2:55 Measurements of slepton parameters at the LC Uriel Nauenberg, U of Colorado
3:00 - 3:20 Study of the stau coannihilation region at the LC Bhaskar Dutta, U of Regina
3:25 - 3:45 LC capabilities for SUSY in dark-matter-allowed regions of the mSUGRA model Howard Baer, Florida State U


Thursday, January 8, 4:05-6:05
    More about Dark Matter

Chair: Mark Trodden
Room: ROB C

4:05 - 4:25 CMSSM likelihood analysis and Its implication for future colliders Yudi Santoso, U of Minnesota
4:30 - 4:50 Testing cosmology at the LHC and LC Andreas Birkedal-Hansen, Cornell U
4:55 - 5:15 SuperWIMP dark matter: ideas and cosmological implications Fumihiro Takayama, UC Irvine
5:20 - 5:40 SuperWIMP dark matter: SUSY WIMP and collider signatures Shufang Su, U of Arizona
5:45 - 6:05 Brane-world dark matter searches at the LC Antonio Dobado, Madrid U

 

Friday, January 9, 10:50-12:50
    Baryogenesis and Exotica

Chair: JoAnne Hewett
Room: ROB C

10:50 - 11:05 Uncertainties of baryon asymmetry computation in MSSM electroweak baryogenesis Daniel Chung, U of Wisconsin
11:10 - 11:25 Right-handed sneutrinos at the TeV scale Hitoshi Murayama, UC Berkeley/IAS
11:30 - 11:45 Moduli, inflation, and TeV physics Michael Peskin, SLAC
11:50 - 12:05 Neutrino telescopes as a direct probe of supersymmetry breaking (and vice versa) Zacharia Chacko, UC Berkeley
12:10 - 12:25 Linear Collider and dark energy Sean Carroll, U of Chicago
12:30 - 12:50 Discussion - From here to a report: what is missing? What remains to be done? Jonathan Feng, UC Irvine

Working Group Summary   (Michael Peskin)


Working Group Convenors: Jonathan Feng, Mark Trodden
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