Credit: source images used courtesy of NASA and Norman A.Graf/SLAC
Future Opportunities to
explore light dark matter, dark photons and other hidden
sector physics
Date/Time: April 28-
30, 2016
- Thu:from 8:00 am - 6:00 pm
- Fri: from 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
- Sat: from 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Location
51 Kavli Auditorium, 48 ROB and 53 SUSB
Plenary sessions in Kavli Auditorium ,
discussions in ROB and SUSB
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Menlo Park, California
The existence of dark matter (or a "dark sector") directly suggests new physics beyond the Standard Model, and discovering this physics is a key goal for the coming decades. In the past 5 years, an international program of new experiments has expanded dark sector searches far beyond traditional weak-scale physics to include new forces and matter at the GeV-scale and below, motivated by both data and theory. While this program has made impressive progress, there are considerable challenges that must be overcome to fully explore the simplest and most viable dark sector scenarios over a wide range of mass scales.
The goal of this workshop is to tackle these
challenges. We will be working on finding solutions to
problems of principle and technology that are currently
limiting our ability to fully explore (and discover!)
light dark matter, dark photons, and other dark sector
physics interacting with familiar matter. As such, much
of this meeting will be devoted to brainstorming and
discussion of the most important models and parameters
to explore, new techniques to do so, and how best to use
existing and planned accelerator facilities for this
purpose. There will be considerable time for discussion
in smaller groups, with organized review talks as
necessary.