Sep 21 – 23, 2015
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Europe/Berlin timezone

Scientific Program

HAP DM 2015 will have overview talks (typically 30 or 35 minutes with 10 minutes discussion time) on the following topics:

1) CMB and its impact on DM

  • Planck results focussing on consequences for WIMP DM

2) CDM vs. WDM scenarios

  • N-body simulations with LCDM parameters: general overview and special results on dwarf galaxies
  • Simulations of galactic structures with warm DM
  • Astrophysical observations of dwarf galaxies/ dwarf galaxy surveys
  • Searches for DM annihilation in dwarf galaxies
  • Production of Sterile Neutrino dark matter
  • Observation of a 3.5keV line from X-ray observations of galaxy clusters – evidence for sterile neutrinos?

3) WIMP models and (laboratory) searches

  • WIMP interactions in EFT and simplified models
  • LHC DM search: results and perspectives
  • Asymmetric Dark Matter
  • Two-Component Dark Matter
  • SUSY NMSSM WIMPs
  • Direct searches for WIMPs, challenges & perspectives with liquid noble gas detectors
  • Direct searches for WIMPs, challenges & perspectives with cryogenic bolometers

4) Axions, ALPs and dark photons

  • Phenomenology of dark photons and ALPs
  • The experimental search for axions and ALPs

5) Indirect DM searches

  • Modelling of astrophysical foreground
  • Update on Fermi-LAT & the case for a 1-3 GeV excess in GC data
  • Positron excess, the search for nuclei and prospects with AMS-02
  • Searching for a neutrino signal from DM annihilation in IceCube and SuperK