Meeting of October 24, 2011

Next Meeting: November 7, 2011 at 9AM Pacific. If this time is inconvenient for you, please inform the conveners.

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The list presented will have BRFT and Carrack removed, a new Fermilab Resonant Regeneration experiment included, new microwave cavity experiments included, the crystalline DM experiment added, several space experiments included, and OSQAR as well.

Comments to these Meetings that were sent to everybody

from Joerg Jaeckel:

Dear Rouven and everybody else,

first of all thank you very much for the effort in putting together this working group.

One small comment. I think during the meeting I didn't express myself very clearly with what I meant with identifying interesting regions.
What I wanted to say is the following:

I think that we should make it clear that in addition to going on a tour of exploration (which I think is a great thing to do and perhaps even my favorite type of experiment; for this reason I don't want to restrict experiments to certain mass ranges)

- we have precise physics goals and hopes of finding new physics in certain regions, motivated by theory as well as experimental/observational hints for new physics.

- this could perhaps be linked to answering fundamental questions about dark matter, dark energy and possibly the existence of extra space dimensions.

Showing that proposed/ongoing experiments can probe areas interesting to these hints and questions should, I think, significantly strengthen our case.

In a pictorial way I am wondering if we could produce something like an upgraded and more generalized combination of the two attached figures (sorry for being biased towards figures from my publications but those I have right at hand; by the way thanks for using one of those figures on the working group web page :-).).

Best wishes
   Joerg

P.S. Following Andrea's suggestion, maybe one more inclusive name for a name for the working group could be
"Axion, hidden sector photon and WISP working group".
In this way we make use of that many people recognise axions and hidden photons but also include all other types of WISPs.