MADMAX Collaboration Meeting

8 May 2018, 09:00 → 9 May 2018, 18:40 Europe/Berlin

Auditorium (MPI Meeting rooms)

The status of preparation of the MADMAX experiment will be discussed

Tuesday, 8 May

09:00 → 10:50 Theory & Proof of principle booster measurements

09:00 Welcome

09:05 Miniclusters

Speaker: Dr Javier Redondo (Max Planck for Physics)

Slides https://www.dropbox.com/s/6cbaokr8mij1bcv/miniclusters_2018.pdf?dl=0

09:35 Booster physics and the way to realization

Speakers: Mr Jan Schütte-Engel (Uni Hamburg), Stefan Knirck (Max Planck for Physics)

Slides main_madmaxworkshop_booster.pdf

10:15 Measurements on reflections

Speaker: Jacob Egge (Max Planck for Physics)

Slides jacob_egge_madmax_collab_v2.pdf

10:40 Cryostat commissioning

Speaker: Christopher Gooch (Max Planck for Physics)

Slides Cryostat_commissioning_18.05.08.pdf

10:50 → 11:20 Coffee

11:20 → 13:10 Booster Design and prototype - Distance measurement

11:20 Booster cryogenics & Characterization measurements needed

Speaker: Prof. Erika Garutti

Slides http://wwwgerda.mpp.mpg.de/files/MADMAX/Meeting_May18/MADMAX-BoosterIntergation-080518.pdf

11:35 Disc positioning - motors

Speaker: David kittlinger (MPI für Physik)

Slides http://wwwgerda.mpp.mpg.de/files/MADMAX/Meeting_May18/2018_05_08_Piezo positioning_kittlinger.pdf

11:50 Status design & Tiling

Speaker: Michael Matyszek

Slides http://wwwgerda.mpp.mpg.de/files/MADMAX/Meeting_Max18/Madmax_8_9mai18_Muenchen_mat_dt.pptx

12:20 DESY Infrastructure Space & weight constraints

Speaker: Dr Joern Schaffran

Slides http://wwwgerda.mpp.mpg.de/files/MADMAX/Meeting_May18/MADMAX-Infrastructure_schaffran.pptx

12:40 Interferometer for proof of principle and prototype

Speaker: Dr Christian Strandhagen

Slides http://wwwgerda.mpp.mpg.de/files/MADMAX/Meeting_May18/strandhagen_disc-positioning.pdf

12:55 Receiver news and to Do List

Speaker: Dr Olaf Reimann

Slides http://wwwgerda.mpp.mpg.de/files/MADMAX/Meeting_May18/MadMax-workshop_Receiver_2018-05-08.pptx

13:10 → 14:15 Lunch

14:15 → 16:45 Session3: Organizational stuff, Simulations & Losses

14:15 Logo inauguration

Slides http://wwwgerda.mpp.mpg.de/files/MADMAX/Meeting_May18/logos.pptx http://wwwgerda.mpp.mpg.de/files/MADMAX/Meeting_May18/MadMax_logo_final.zip

14:30 Webpage

notes https://madmax.mpp.mpg.de/news.html

14:35 Introduction to Confluence

Speaker: Dr Christoph Krieger

Slides http://wwwgerda.mpp.mpg.de/files/MADMAX/Meeting_May18/munich2018madmax-confluence.pdf

15:25 Booster analytical calculations & Simulations

Slides http://wwwgerda.mpp.mpg.de/files/MADMAX/09_05_2018_knirck_schuette.pdf

16:10 Loss mechanisms tan delta requirements

Speaker: Alexander Partsch (Max Planck for Physics)

Slides http://wwwgerda.mpp.mpg.de/files/MADMAX/Meeting_May18/presentation_loss_estimates_v3.pdf

16:30 Coffee

16:45 → 17:45 Studying gravitational waves with radio telescopes - today and tomorrow

Speaker: Prof. Michael Kramer

Slides http://wwwgerda.mpp.mpg.de/files/MADMAX/Meeting_May18/KRAMER_MPP_May18.pdf

17:45 → 19:00 Discussion: Strategy - Bottlenecks

17:45 Bottle necks and Potential show stoppers

Speaker: Dr Béla Majorovits (Max Planck for Physics)

Slides http://wwwgerda.mpp.mpg.de/files/MADMAX/Meeting_May18/madmax_bottlenecks_180508.pptx

18:05 Discussion - Prototype magnets

19:05 → 22:05 Dinner and discussions

Wednesday, 9 May

09:00 → 10:30 Session 4: Magnet reports - Magnet prototypes

09:00 CEA IRFU SACLAY Magnet study status

Speaker: Dr Walid Abdel Maksud

Slides http://wwwgerda.mpp.mpg.de/files/MADMAX/Meeting_May18/MadmaxMeeting09052018_WAM.PDF

09:30 Bilfinger Noell Magnet study status

Speaker: Dr Cristian Boffo

Slides http://wwwgerda.mpp.mpg.de/files/MADMAX/Meeting_May18/Magnet_Noell_08052018.pdf

10:00 Discussion What kind of prototypes

10:30 → 10:50 Coffee

10:50 → 12:30 Session 5: IAXO - Characterization magnets

10:50 IAXO guest talk

Speaker: Dr Axel Lindner

Slides http://wwwgerda.mpp.mpg.de/files/MADMAX/Meeting_May18/IAXO-1.pdf http://wwwgerda.mpp.mpg.de/files/MADMAX/Meeting_May18/IAXO-2.pdf

11:35 Discussion - BabyIAXO magnet synergies(?)

11:45 Discussion Prototype magnet at Saclay

Slides http://wwwgerda.mpp.mpg.de/files/MADMAX/Meeting_May18/madmax_proto_char_magnets_saclay.pptx

11:55 Prototype magnets at DESY

Slides http://wwwgerda.mpp.mpg.de/files/MADMAX/Meeting_May18/MADMAX_DESY_magnets.pptx

12:05 KAT KET KHuK Strategy meeting report

Slides https://indico.desy.de/indico/event/20166/contribution/6/material/slides/0.pdf

12:30 → 15:00 Session 6: Working Lunch: Collaboration meeting

12:30 Discussion Innovation partnership: Complementarities btw. Saclay and CEA

Slides http://wwwgerda.mpp.mpg.de/files/MADMAX/Meeting_May18/MagnetProjectsWorkOrganisation-Madmax_WAM.PDF

13:10 → 15:00 Lunch

15:00 → 17:00 Last session: Theory - Closeout

15:00 Theoretical overview axions landscape

Speaker: Dr Andreas Ringwald

Slides https://www.dropbox.com/s/ocp314137itir5k/madmax_collaboration_meeting_munich_2018.pptx?dl=0

15:45 Dark matter velocity distributions what does it mean for MADMAX

Speaker: Dr Ciaran O'Hare

Slides http://wwwgerda.mpp.mpg.de/files/MADMAX/Meeting_May18/OHare-fv.pdf

16:05 Influence of string decays on axion mass prediction

Speaker: Kenichi Saikawa (Max Planck for Physics)

Slides MADMAX_meeting.pdf

16:25 Report from Collaboration Board

Speaker: Prof. Erika Garutti

16:35 Closeout