3 days in September 2010

Organiser: Gianfranco Bertone (chair), Laura Baudis, Thomas Gehrmann, Daniel Wyler, Charalampos Anastasiou

Anticipated number of speakers: 20-25

Participants: around 50

Suppose that, a few years from now, New Physics is found at the Large Hadron Collider. As cosmologists and particle physicists, we will be interested in understanding whether the newly discovered particles can constitute part, or all, of the Dark Matter in the Universe. A definitive answer to this question can hardly be given on the basis of an accelerator-only approach, while a combined analysis that takes into account astrophysical observations (in particular of anti-matter, gamma-ray and neutrino telescopes), and data from dedicated 'direct detection' experiments may actually allow us to convincingly identify Dark Matter particles. This workshop will center on the multidisciplinary aspect of Dark Matter searches, and more specifically on the statistical tools so far developed for the exploration of New Physics with stringent observational constraints arising form accelerator, direct and indirect Dark Matter searches.