Dark Matter beyond the Weak Scale

The BeyondWIMPs organisers @DjunaCroon, @SmirnovJuri, and @EHardy88 are excited to welcome you to the next installment of our UK based Dark Matter Workshop! We thank @durham_uni and @IPPP_Durham for hosting Vol. 2 of our workshop. Full program: #20240325" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">conference.ippp.dur.ac.uk/event/1289/tim…

Liverpool is not just a science hub with the @LivUni but also a historic sports and cultural center in the North! We’re looking forward to be back for the next iteration 🔁 Stay tuned … 😁

Can’t stop discussing Physics! From monopoles to molecular orbital excitations probably only few topics in physics were not touched upon, amazing last day at @durham_uni

Louis Hamaide rounds off the workshop with the projected sensitivity of DarkSPHERE!

Anton Sokolov tells us about axions coupled to magnetic monopoles

Exciting future quest sensitivity from Elizabeth Lesson!

Future projections of scintillating dark matter searches from Carlos Blanco

On the way to the pub, perfect view on a lovely day in Durham.

Are we close to the solution of the strong CP problem?? Worth taking about 😅

Can black holes shine ✨ light on quantum gravity? Most certainly, but how would we make use of it. In the last talk for today @SannFrancesco presents a new effective framework to parametrise quantum effects on Schwarzschild black holes 🕳️

Thanks for sharing, exciting news 🗞️

Could DM be promotional black holes? Or contain many? Great review by Anne @ultra_wimp: quite hard to produce them during inflation, large parameter space is ruled out, but at the end the asteroid mass ☄️ window is open, and would imply really odd early universe conditions 🤔

An axion discovery could disprove (heterotic) string theory! From Mario Reig

Francesco D'Eramo gives predictions for an unavoidable axion contribution to dark radiation

Clara Murgui shows how atom interferometry and decoherence can be sensitive to soft imprints of dark matter

Day 3 starts with Milena Crnogorčević giving a gamma ray observer's perspective on where we are!

Program for today is 🆙 Looking forward to the discussions later 😄

@mmosc_m When?

More physics discussions at the local pub by the fire 🔥 Can it get more 🇬🇧 ?

@ultra_wimp Thank you 😊 this was a good call! Dinner 🥘 soon?

The more particle theorists there are in the room, the harder it is to keep things running on time. [Me (as chair) after the N-th interruption: "If we want to go to dinner tonight we need to let the speaker give his talk."]

The last talk today is given by Miguel Crispim Romao (@MiguelCRomao) about opportunities for gravitational microlensing searches for extended dark objects. These objects can give “batman” like signatures shining in our sky!

In the second part of this afternoon, Davide Racco is telling us about production mechanisms of non-WIMP dark matter. Gravitational production requires no non-gravitational couplings to the Standard Model — the stuff of nightmares Luca was talking about!

Luca Teodori has a solution for the “nightmare scenario” in which dark matter only interacts gravitationally with the Standard Model: Fuzzy DM forms solitons, which can be identified using gravitational lensing time delays! These can give a significant shift in H0.