PLANCK 2015
25-29 May 2015
Ioannina, Greece
published March 18, 2016
Since the second half of the twentieth century we have witnessed important experimental discoveries as well as enormous advances on modern theories of High Energy Physics. These breakthroughs were the spark of a great number of important and influential workshops and conferences. The last two decades the Planck conferences have been established as one of the most successful annual events, covering most of the research areas in High Energy Physics.

The year 2015 we had the honour to host the 18th International Conference {PLANCK 2015} at The University of Ioannina, in the city of Ioannina, Greece. The event took place from Monday, May 25 2015 till Friday, May 29 2015. Previous Planck International Conferences were held in the following cities:

2014: Paris, 2013: Bonn, 2012: Warsaw, 2011: Lisbon, 2010: CERN, 2009: Padova, 2008: Barcelona, 2007: Warsaw, 2006: Paris, 2005: Trieste, 2004: Bad Honnef, 2003: Madrid, 2002: Kazimierz, 2001: La Londe-les-Maures, 2000: Castelvecchio Pascoli, 1999: Bad Honnef, 1998: Kazimierz

The Planck-2015 conference covered a wide range of topics in contemporary theoretical and experimental physics: The talks on Experimental High Energy Physics, focused on the prospects at LHC experiments, the neutrino experiments as well as supersymmetry and dark matter searches. The theoretical talks covered topics in String Theory and String Phenomenology, Supersymmetry and Supergravity, Cosmology, Neutrino Physics and Discrete Symmetries.

Several talks presented also work in astroparticle physics, dark matter and supersymmetry as well as research with wide applications in particle physics and beyond. Following the tradition of the Planck series of conferences, the talks (141 in total) were divided into 41 plenary-review talks, and 100 shorter presentations.

The organisation of the Planck meeting in the city of Ioannina was an important landmark in the scientific life of our University. Spearheaded by the quality of our speakers and the participants, we were fortunate to have very high quality plenary and research talks, as well as stimulating and interesting discussions which made the conference quite fruitful and enjoyable. There were more that 200 registered participants for the event.

The Editors,
Ignatios Antoniadis, George K. Leontaris, Kyriakos Tamvakis

http://planck2015.physics.uoi.gr/index.html
http://planck2015.physics.uoi.gr/Planck_Programme-UPDATED.pdf
http://planck2015.physics.uoi.gr/cgi-bin/showpart.pl

Main session
Towards a Phenomenology for the non-supersymmetric Heterotic String
S. Abel, K.R. Dienes and E. Mavroudi
Higgs dark matter from warped extra-dimension
A. Ahmed, B. Grzadkowski, J. Gunion and Y. Jiang
Universality in radiative corrections for non-supersymmetric heterotic vacua
C. Angelantonj, I. Florakis and M. Tsulaia
Moduli stabilization, de Sitter vacua and supersymmetry breaking
I. Antoniadis
Two-loop induced neutrino masses: A model-independent perspective
D. Aristizabal
Inflation and DE from f(R) gravity
M. Artymowski, Z. Lalak and M. Lewicki
MSSM Higgs : Window into Susy GUTs
Gauge Mediation in the NMSSM with a Light Singlet: Sparticles within the Reach of LHC Run II
B. Allanach, M. Badziak, C. Hugonie and R. Ziegler
Naturalness and Supersymmetry
C. Balazs, P. Athron, B. Farmer, D. Kim, D. Kim and B. Farmer
Natural SUSY: LHC and Dark Matter direct detection experiments interplay
D. Barducci, A. Belyaev, A. Bharucha, W.R. Porod, V. Sanz, A. Belyaev, A. Bharuchac and V. Sanze
Uplifting Maximal Gauged Supergravities
Off-trail SUSY
K. Benakli and L.J.M. Darmé
Large field inflation and string moduli stabilization
R. Blumenhagen, A. Font, M. Fuchs, D. Herschmann and E. Plauschinn
Indirect and direct detection prospect for TeV dark matter in the MSSM-9
M.E. Cabrera Catalan, S.i. Ando, C. Weniger, F. Zandanel and S.i. Ando
Fermion mass and mixing pattern in a minimal T7 flavor 331 model
A. Carcamo Hernandez and R. Martinez
Dark matter with ultra compact mini halos
K.Y. Choi, J.O. Gong and C.S. Shin
How to avoid unnatural hierarchical thermal leptogenesis
Supersymmetric Z' decays at the LHC
G. Corcella
SO(10) SUSY GUTs from M theory
M. Crispim Romao
Dark Matter: Connecting LHC searches to direct detection
A. Crivellin
Features and implications of the plateau inflationary potentials
I. Dalianis
Family symmetries and CP
I. de Medeiros Varzielas
Currents in supersymmetric field theories
J.P. Derendinger
Non-custodial warped extra dimensions at the LHC
B. Dillon and S.J. Huber
Shaft Inflation and the Planck satellite observations
Inflation, scale of supersymmetry breaking and moduli stabilization
E. Dudas and C. Wieck
Inflationary observables and moduli masses
D. Kumar, K. Dutta and A. Maharana
Fitting the two-loop renormalized Two-Higgs-Doublet model
O. Eberhardt
Prospects for Supersymmetry at the LHC & Beyond
Spinor-vector duality and light Z’ in heterotic strings
A. Faraggi and I. Rizos
Phenomenology of the Renormalizable Coloron Model
A. Farzinnia
Search strategies for heavy quark partners at LHC run-II
Particle production in the background with VEV depending on time
O. Czerwinska, S. Enomoto and Z. Lalak
Effective Field theories and pseudo observables in the quest for physics beyond the standard model
R. Gomez Ambrosio
Neutralino dark matter and naturalness of the electroweak scale
A. Goudelis, G. Belanger, C. Delaunay, G. Bélanger and C. Delaunay
Search for the dark photon in pi0 decays
E. Goudzovski
Searching SUSY from below
G. Grilli di Cortona
String condensation: Nemesis of Black Holes?
Gauge-Higgs Grand Unification
Y. Hosotani and N. Yamatsu
Quantum Gravity and Dimensional Transmutation
D.R.T. Jones and M. Einhorn
Neutrino flavor-, helicity-, and pair oscillations
A. Kartavtzev, G. Raffelt and H. Vogel
Towards unification of GUT families
Neutrinos, Flavour and CP Violation
Stringy N = 1 Super no Scale Models
C. Kounnas and H. Partouche
SU(5) Yukawa matrix unification in the General Flavour Violating MSSM
K. Kowalska and M. Iskrzynski
Naturalness of effective theories in Wilsonian approach
T. Krajewski and Z. Lalak
Gravitational lensing and frame dragging of light in the Kerr-Newman and the Kerr-Newman-(anti) de Sitter black hole spacetimes
G. Kraniotis
Shifted Focus Point and Gluino Mass Bound in the Minimal Mixed Mediation of SUSY Breaking
Double Hybrid Inflation and gravitational waves
G. Lazarides and C. Panagiotakopoulos
Standard Model vacuum stability in the presence of gauge invariant nonrenormalizable operators
Z. Lalak, M. Lewicki and P. Olszewski
Signs of Tops from Highly Mixed Stops
A. Mariotti, M. Backovic and M. Spannowsky
Dark Matter phenomenology of intersecting D6-branes with a Stückelberg portal
V. Martin-Lozano
Novel Scenarios for Majorana Neutrino Mass Generation and Leptogenesis from Kalb-Ramond Torsion
N. Mavromatos
Discrete Symmetries in F-theory models
A. Meadowcroft
R-parity violating supersymmetry and neutrino physics: experimental signatures
V.A. Mitsou
What is a Natural SUSY scenario?
J. Moreno, J.A. Casas, K. Rolbiecki, S. Robles and B. Zaldivar
Dark Matter and Gauge Coupling Unification in Non-supersymmetric SO(10) Grand Unified Models
Information Retention by Stringy Black Holes
J. Ellis, N. Mavromatos and D. Nanopoulos
The quark flavor problem and spontaneous breaking of flavour SU(3)^3
Supersymmetric Dark Matter after Run I at the LHC: From a TeV to a PeV
Current Status of the T2K experiment
Observable Gravitational Waves From Kinetically Modified Non-Minimal Inflation
Cosmic censorship revisited from a quantum mechanical standpoint
Aspects of the Flavour Expansion Theorem
M. Paraskevas
Large muon (g-2) from TeV-scale MSSM with infinite tan beta
J.H. Park, M. Bach, D. Stöckinger and H. Stoeckinger-Kim
Anarchic Yukawas and top partial compositeness: the flavour of a successful marriage
A. Parolini
Geroch group for Einstein spaces and holographic integrability
A.C. Petkou, M. Petropoulos, K. Siampos and K. Siampos
Looking for New Naturally Aligned Higgs Doublets at the LHC
A. Pilaftsis, P.S. Bhupal Dev and P.S.B. Dev
Gauge mediation with light stops
M. Quiros, A. Delgado and M. Garcia-Pepin
SO(10) Yukawa Unification : SUSY on the Edge
Supersymmetry and Inflation
A. Sagnotti and S. Ferrara
One-loop corrections to the Higgs EW chiral Lagrangian
J.J. Sanz Cillero, F.K. Guo and P. Ruiz-Femenía
Confronting the Inert Doublet Model with results from Run 1 of the LHC
D. Sengupta
A loophole to the universal photon spectrum in electromagnetic cascades: applications to non-thermal primordial nucleosynthesis
P. Serpico and V. Poulin
GUT-inspired SUSY and the muon g-2 anomaly: Prospects for LHC 14 TeV
E.M. Sessolo, K. Kowalska, L. Roszkowski and A. Williams
µ-Term Hybrid Inflation and Split Supersymmetry
Tadpoles, Cephalopods, and ‘Complete Normal Ordering
D. Skliros
GravitinoPack and late decays involving gravitinos
V. Spanos and H. Eberl
Semi-Annihilating Wino-Like Dark Matter
A. Spray and Y. Cai
Interplay of gaugino (co)annihilation processes in the context of a precise relic density calculation
J. Harz, B. Herrmann, M. Klasen, K. Kovarik and P. Steppeler
Rare top-quark decays to Higgs boson in the MSSM
Blind spots for neutralinos in NMSSM with light singlet scalar
M. Badziak, M. Olechowski and P. Szczerbiak
Axion Dark Matter searches-Modulation, asymmetry and the diurnal variation
J. Vergados and Y.K. Semertzidis
METing SUSY on the Z peak
O.M. Vives
A discrete Anatomy of the Neutrino mass Matrix
N. Vlachos
Origin of Neutrino Mass
G. Senjanovic and V. Tello