Name: COSMIC WISPers: Searching for WISPs
Start: 2024-10-23T09:00:00+03:00
End: 2024-10-25T12:00:00+03:00
Location: Building V

COSMIC WISPers: Searching for WISPs

from Wednesday, October 23, 2024 (9:00 AM) to Friday, October 25, 2024 (12:00 PM)

Monday, October 21, 2024
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
Wednesday, October 23, 2024

9:00 AM

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: V29a
10:00 AM Welcome - Georgi Rainovski (Dean of Faculty of Physics, Sofia University) Mariyan Bogomilov (Head of Atomic Phys. Dept.)
Welcome
- Georgi Rainovski (Dean of Faculty of Physics, Sofia University)
- Mariyan Bogomilov (Head of Atomic Phys. Dept.)
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: V29a
10:30 AM
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: V29a
Contributions

10:30 AM General picture of the white paper - Alessandro Mirizzi (Bari University)

10:50 AM Introduction to the Experimental section of the White Paper - Alessio Rettaroli
12:30 PM

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: V29a
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: V29a
Contributions

2:00 PM Training school and experimental physics

2:30 PM Introduction to diversifying the tutoring at the training school

3:00 PM New initiatives - Štěpán Kunc
3:30 PM Probing ultralight axion-like particles with quantum technology - Sreemanti Chakraborti (Durham Univ)
Probing ultralight axion-like particles with quantum technology
- Sreemanti Chakraborti (Durham Univ)
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: V29a LNF-INFN online seminar by from Sreemanti Chakraborti, Durham University through LNF-INFN LNF-INFN link: https://agenda.infn.it/event/43703/ ZOOM link: https://infn-it.zoom.us/j/94318244523?pwd=bfuJabdm2n4yaXreeGNkaa37mtNDuS.1
5:00 PM

5:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: V29a

5:30 PM

5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: V29a
Thursday, October 24, 2024
10:00 AM
10:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: V29a
Contributions

10:00 AM Global fits of new light particles data - Sebastian Hoof

10:30 AM Combination of experimental results - Ciaran O'Hare

11:00 AM RF cavities - Claudio Gatti (LNF - INFN)

11:30 AM Optics - Marin Karuza

12:00 PM Quantum technologies - Aybas Deniz
12:30 PM

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: V29a

2:00 PM

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: V29a

3:30 PM Search for Axion Dark Matter at LNF
Search for Axion Dark Matter at LNF
3:30 PM - 4:25 PM
Room: A315 LOCATION: A315, Faculty of Physics, Sofia University The axion, a pseudoscalar particle originally introduced to solve the ‘’strong CP problem’’, is a well motivated dark-matter candidate with a mass lying in a broad range from peV to few meV. Axions clustered inside our galaxy may be observed by means of detectors called “haloscopes” consisting in a resonant cavity immersed in a static magnetic field that triggers the axion conversion to microwave photons. After a brief introduction to axion physics, I will present the status and perspectives for axion dark-matter searches at INFN. I’ll show the recent results of QUAX, an INFN experiment that operates two haloscopes at the national laboratories in Frascati and Legnaro, and discuss how to improve them using quantum sensing. Finally, I will present FLASH a large haloscope to be built by recycling a superconducting solenoid of 1.4 m radius, 2.2 m length and 1.1 T field at LNF. FLASH will probe axions with a mass around 1 micro-eV, as well as dark photons and high frequency gravitational waves. Recently, after the refurbishing of the cryogenic lines and of the control system, the magnet was powered with about 2700 ampere to generate, again after two decades, a 1.1 T field.

4:30 PM

4:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: A315
5:00 PM
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: A315
Contributions

5:00 PM Low-energy avenues for light dark matter searches - Pier Giuseppe Catinari (Roma, La Sapienza)

6:00 PM Discussion
Friday, October 25, 2024

9:00 AM

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: V29a