8–9 May 2018
MPI Meeting rooms
Europe/Berlin timezone

Scientific Programme

MADMAX Collaboration meeting 8 & 9. May

 

Tuesday 8.5.18
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9:00 Welcome
5” Hello MADMAX

9:05 – 9:35 Theory
30" Miniclusters - Javier Redondo

9:35 - 10:50 Proof of principle Booster measurements
40" Booster physics and the way to realization - Stefan Knirck
25" Measurements on reflections - Jacob Egge
10" Cryostat commissioning - Chris Gooch

10:50 - 11:20 COFFEE

11:20 - 13:10 Booster Design and prototype - Distance measurement
30" Status design & Tiling- Michael Matyszek
15" Disc positioning - motors - David Kittlinger
15" Booster cryogenics & Characterization measurements needed -  Erika Garutti
20" DESY Infrastructure Space & weight constraints - Preparation LHe - Joern Schaffran
15" Interferometer for proof of principle and prototype - Christian Strandhagen
15" Receiver news and to Do List- Olaf Reimann

 

13:10 - 14:15 LUNCH

14:15- 15:05 Organizational stuff:
15" Logo inauguration
10" Webpage
25" Introduction to Confluence

15:05 – 16:10 Simulations, Losses
45" Booster analytical calculations & Simulations - Jan Schuette-Engel
20" Loss mechanisms tan delta requirements - Alexander Partsch


16:15 - 16:45 Coffee

16:45 - 17:45 COLLOQUIUM
60" Studying gravitational waves with radio telescopes
    - today and tomorrow - M. Kramer


17:45 - 18:25 Infarstructure and Strategy Discussion
20" Bottle necks and Potential show stoppers - Béla Majorovits
20" 1st discussion on protoype magnet needs

18:25 - 19:00 Time buffer

 

19:30 Social event: Aumeister

 

Wedensday 9.5.18
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9:00 - 10:30 Magnet report
30" Status SACLAY - Walid Abdel Maksoud
30" Status Bilfinger Noell - C. Boffo
30" Discussion What kind of prototypes will be needed for
Phase II of innovation partnership?

10:30 - 10:50 Coffee

45" IAXO guest talk - A. Lindner

11:35 - 12:10 Session Magnet Protoypes for characterization
and for MADMAX booster prototype discussions
10" Prototype magnet at Saclay
10" Prototype magnet at DESY - Discussion
15" BabyIAXO magnet synergies(?) - Discussion

12:10 - 12:50 Magnet innovation partnership cont.
40" Discussion Innovation partnership: Complementarities btw. Saclay and CEA

12:50 - 13:10 Strategy:
20" KAT KET KHuK Strategy meeting report - Axel Lindner/Andreas/Erika


13:10 - 15:00 Working LUNCH - COllaboration board

15:00 - 16:30 Theory
45" Theoretical overview axions landscape - Andreas Ringwald
20" Dark matter velocity distributions
    what does it mean for MADMAX - Ciaran O'Hare
20" Influence of string decays on axion mass prediction Kenichi

 

Report form Collaboration board and Closeout - Erika

 


16:30 - 17:00 COFFEE

 

17:00 - 18:00 Time Buffer