Dark Matter beyond the Weak Scale

Annual UK based Dark Matter conference. Vol1 @LivUni, Vol 2 @durham_uni Vol 3 TBC … Organizers: @EHardy88, @SmirnovJuri, and @DjunaCroon

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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: https://t.co/fPbHLvKamA

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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 … 😁

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Throwback to one of the first pictures of MRC 🚣‍♂️

This year, we’re celebrating our 170th birthday, to celebrate we’re rowing 170km on the Liverpool docks

This will take 17-18 hours, so please come down to shout us on!(June 23)
#rowing #rundern #aviron #birthday #liverpoolhistory

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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

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

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Anton Sokolov tells us about axions coupled to magnetic monopoles

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Exciting future quest sensitivity from Elizabeth Lesson!

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Future projections of scintillating dark matter searches from Carlos Blanco

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

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

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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 🕳️

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Thanks for sharing, exciting news 🗞️

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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 🤔

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

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

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

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

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

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@mmosc_m When?

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

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

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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!

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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.

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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!