The Ultra-Light Frontier

Europe/Berlin
02.430 (Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University)

02.430

Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University

Staudingerweg 9 / 2<sup>nd</sup> floor 55128 Mainz
Description
Ultra-light particles such as axions and dark photons. Such particles emerge generically in many models of ultra-violet physics such as string theory and can easily constitute the dark matter of the universe. Searches for these particles are thus well motivated. Current experimental techniques have a very limited ability to probe the parameter space of such particles. In light of our ignorance of the ultraviolet structures that create these particles, it is essential to develop new probes of their parameter space. Recently, as a result of several joint theory and experimental collaborations, a number of new ideas have been put forth to accomplish this goal.

This workshop will bring together experts from a variety of relevant fields, so that expertise developed in one field may help cross-pollinate ideas in other fields.
Executive Summary
Timetable (PDF version)
    • 9:45 AM
      Registration/Coffee/Light Breakfast
    • 1
      Welcome 02.430

      02.430

      Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University

      Staudingerweg 9 / 2<sup>nd</sup> floor 55128 Mainz
      Speakers: Dmitry Budker, Surjeet Rajendran (UC Berkeley)
    • 2
      Axion Landscape 02.430

      02.430

      Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University

      Staudingerweg 9 / 2<sup>nd</sup> floor 55128 Mainz
      Speaker: Georg Raffelt
      Slides
    • 3
      CASPEr: the Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment 02.430

      02.430

      Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University

      Staudingerweg 9 / 2<sup>nd</sup> floor 55128 Mainz
      Speaker: Derek Jackson Kimball
      Slides
    • 12:00 PM
      Lunch Break
    • 4
      Towards a resolution of the Strong CP-problem: proton EDM and axions 02.430

      02.430

      Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University

      Staudingerweg 9 / 2<sup>nd</sup> floor 55128 Mainz
      Speaker: Yannis Semertzidis
    • 5
      Axion Dark Matter eXperiment - High Frequencies 02.430

      02.430

      Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University

      Staudingerweg 9 / 2<sup>nd</sup> floor 55128 Mainz
      Speaker: Maria Simanovskaia
    • 4:00 PM
      Break - Coffee will be provided at the MITP Lounge
    • 9:30 AM
      Good Morning - Coffee at the MITP Lounge
    • 6
      Cosmological Relaxation of the Electroweak Scale 02.430

      02.430

      Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University

      Staudingerweg 9 / 2<sup>nd</sup> floor 55128 Mainz
      Speaker: Surjeet Rajendran (UC Berkeley)
      Slides
    • 7
      Precision measurements with an atomic co-magnetometer at the South Pole 02.430

      02.430

      Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University

      Staudingerweg 9 / 2<sup>nd</sup> floor 55128 Mainz
      Speaker: Michael Romalis
      Slides
    • 8
      Searching for Ghosts with NMR: Experimental Aspects of CASPEr 02.430

      02.430

      Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University

      Staudingerweg 9 / 2<sup>nd</sup> floor 55128 Mainz
      Speaker: John Blanchard
      Slides
    • 9
      Ultra-ultra-light Axions 02.430

      02.430

      Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University

      Staudingerweg 9 / 2<sup>nd</sup> floor 55128 Mainz
      Speaker: Josef Pradler
      Slides
    • 12:30 PM
      Lunch Break
    • 3:30 PM
      Cookies at the Institute for Nuclear Physics
    • 10
      Colloquium: New effects of dark matter which are linear in the interaction strength (followed by wine and pretzels) Lecture Hall, Nuclear Physics (Johann-Joachim-Becher-Weg 45, JGU Mainz)

      Lecture Hall, Nuclear Physics

      Johann-Joachim-Becher-Weg 45, JGU Mainz

      Speaker: Victor Flambaum
      Slides
    • 9:30 AM
      Good Morning - Coffee at the MITP Lounge
    • 11
      From 10^-20 to 10^60 eV: looking for dark matter over a broad range of possibilities 02.430

      02.430

      Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University

      Staudingerweg 9 / 2<sup>nd</sup> floor 55128 Mainz
      Speaker: Maxim Pospelov
      Slides
    • 12
      Global Network of Optical Magnetometers for Exotic physics 02.430

      02.430

      Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University

      Staudingerweg 9 / 2<sup>nd</sup> floor 55128 Mainz
      Speaker: Szymon Pustelny
      Slides
    • 13
      Nuclear spin precession in ultra low fields - a probe for physics beyond the standard model 02.430

      02.430

      Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University

      Staudingerweg 9 / 2<sup>nd</sup> floor 55128 Mainz
      Speaker: Lutz Trahms
      Slides
      Video
    • 12:00 PM
      Break
    • 4:00 PM
      Excursion (followed by a dinner together)
    • 9:30 AM
      Good Morning - Coffee at the MITP Lounge
    • 14
      Hints for hunts of axions 02.430

      02.430

      Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University

      Staudingerweg 9 / 2<sup>nd</sup> floor 55128 Mainz
      Speaker: Andreas Ringwald
      Slides
    • 15
      New physics searches with atomic dysprosium 02.430

      02.430

      Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University

      Staudingerweg 9 / 2<sup>nd</sup> floor 55128 Mainz
      Speaker: Nathan Leefer
      Slides
    • 16
      Search for dark photons at MAMI and MESA 02.430

      02.430

      Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University

      Staudingerweg 9 / 2<sup>nd</sup> floor 55128 Mainz
      Speaker: Dr Harald Merkel (Institut für Kernphysik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)
      Slides
    • 12:00 PM
      Lunch Break
    • 17
      Axion-induced EDMs in paramagnetic systems 02.430

      02.430

      Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University

      Staudingerweg 9 / 2<sup>nd</sup> floor 55128 Mainz
      Speaker: Ben Roberts
      Slides
    • 18
      Detecting Axions with UCNs at PSI 02.430

      02.430

      Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University

      Staudingerweg 9 / 2<sup>nd</sup> floor 55128 Mainz
      Speaker: Samer Afach
    • 19
      Status of ADMX, the Axion Dark Matter Experiment 02.430

      02.430

      Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University

      Staudingerweg 9 / 2<sup>nd</sup> floor 55128 Mainz
      Speaker: Gray Rybka
    • 4:00 PM
      Break - Coffee will be provided at the MITP Lounge
    • 9:30 AM
      Good Morning - Coffee at the MITP Lounge
    • 20
      The meV frontier of Axion Physics 02.430

      02.430

      Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University

      Staudingerweg 9 / 2<sup>nd</sup> floor 55128 Mainz
      Speaker: Javier Redondo
      Slides
    • 21
      Electric dipole moments of hadrons in atoms, molecules, and solids 02.430

      02.430

      Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University

      Staudingerweg 9 / 2<sup>nd</sup> floor 55128 Mainz
      Speaker: Oleg Sushkov
      Slides
    • 22
      GPS as a dark matter detector 02.430

      02.430

      Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University

      Staudingerweg 9 / 2<sup>nd</sup> floor 55128 Mainz
      Speaker: Andrei Derevianko
      Slides
    • 12:00 PM
      Lunch Break
    • 23
      Magnetic Resonance with Single Nuclear-Spin Sensitivity (joint with Mainz Magnetic Resonance Seminar) 02.430

      02.430

      Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University

      Staudingerweg 9 / 2<sup>nd</sup> floor 55128 Mainz
      Speaker: Alex Sushkov
      Slides
    • 3:00 PM
      Break - Coffee will be provided at the MITP Lounge
    • 24
      Manifestations of Dark matter in atomic and astrophysical phenomena 02.430

      02.430

      Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University

      Staudingerweg 9 / 2<sup>nd</sup> floor 55128 Mainz
      Speaker: Victor Flambaum
      Slides
    • 25
      Precessing Ferromagnetic Needle Magnetometer 02.430

      02.430

      Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University

      Staudingerweg 9 / 2<sup>nd</sup> floor 55128 Mainz
      Speaker: Dmitry Budker
      Slides