Conferences
5 October 2023, Online
Symmetry | Hidden Dark Sector in High Energy Physics
Dear all, the MDPI Symmetry webinar on the “Hidden Dark Sector in High Energy Physics” will discuss topics from high energy physics based on some selected articles published in the Symmetry Special Issue (SI) with the same title.
The Standard Model (SM), while extremely powerful as a description of strong, electromagnetic and weak interactions, is not a natural candidate to explain dark matter. Theoretical and experimental motivations exist for the existence of a hidden or dark sector of phenomena that couples either weakly or in a special way to SM fields. Hidden sectors near the weak scale are motivated by naturalness, thermal dark matter and electroweak baryogenesis but also represent a generic expectation for physics beyond the SM (BSM). If there is such a family of particles and interactions, they may be accessible experimentally at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN and at future high energy colliders. As a prototypical hidden sector can be considered, there is the compelling possibility of an exact or spontaneously broken U(1) dark gauge symmetry, mediated by a vector boson called the dark photon. The search for such a hidden sector is an important component of the LHC physics program. The LHC provides a unique tool to explore such models where these new states can be produced using, for example, exotic Higgs boson decays to light scalars or light vectors and inclusive dark photon decays or associated productions as a portal to this hidden or dark sector, which has remained inaccessible up to now.
Date: 05 October 2023 at 4:00 pm CEST | 10:00 am EDT | 10:00 pm CST Asia
Webinar ID: 820 0416 0606
Register now for free!
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Speaker |
Presentation Title |
Time in CEST |
Time in EDT |
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Dr. Theodota Lagouri CERN-EP |
Chair Introduction |
4:00–4:10 pm |
10:00–10:10 am |
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Prof. Keith Baker Yale University |
TBD |
4:10–4:30 pm |
10:10–10:30 am |
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Q&A Session 1 |
4:30–4:35 pm |
10:30–10:35 am |
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Prof. Emidio Gabrielli Università di Trieste |
Higgs Boson as a Portal to Dark Photons at the LHC and Beyond |
4:35–4:55 pm |
10:35–10:55 am |
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Q&A Session 2 |
4:55–5:00 pm |
10:55–11:00 am |
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Dr. Spyros Argyropoulos Albert Ludwigs Universitaet Freiburg |
Collider Searches for Dark Matter through the Higgs Lens |
5:00–5:20 pm |
11:00–11:20 am |
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Q&A Session 3 |
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5:20–5:25 pm |
11:20–11:25 pm |
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Prof. Dr. Andrei Afanasev The George Washington University |
TBD |
5:25–5:45 pm |
11:25–11:45 am |
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Q&A Session 4 |
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5:45–5:50 pm |
11:45–11:50 am |
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Dr. Theodota Lagouri CERN-EP |
Closing of Webinar |
5:50–6:00 pm |
11:50–12:00 am |
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Webinar Chairs and Keynote Speakers
Dr. Theodota Lagouri, CERN-EP, Espl. des Particules 1, 1211 Meyrin, Switzerland
Prof. Keith Baker, Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
Prof. Emidio Gabrielli, Dipartimento di Fisica Teorica, Università di Trieste, Strada Costiera 11, I-34151 Trieste, Italy
Dr. Spyros Argyropoulos, Albert Ludwigs Universitaet Freiburg
Prof. Dr. Andrei Afanasev, Department of Physics, The George Washington University, Washington, United States
Relevant Special Issue:
Hidden Dark Sector in High Energy Physics
Edited by Theodota Lagouri
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2023
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/symmetry/special_issues/Hidden_Dark_Sector_in_High_Energy_Physics
