Name: New Directions in the Search for Light Dark Matter Particles
Start: 2019-06-04T08:00:00-05:00
End: 2019-06-07T18:00:00-05:00
Location: Fermilab

Monday, 3 June 2019
Tuesday, 4 June 2019

08:00 Informal discussion
Informal discussion
08:00 - 09:00
Room: Wilson Hall Curia II
09:00
09:00 - 10:45
Room: Wilson Hall Curia II
Contributions

09:00 Welcome - Dan Bauer (Fermilab) Noah Kurinsky

09:15 Fundamentals of Direct Detection - Scott Hertel (UMass Amherst)

09:45 Photon Detection: PMTs, SiPMs, Scintillators - Claudio Savarese (Princeton)

10:15 Charge Detection and Measurement - Alvaro Chavarria (University of Washington)
10:45 Break
Break
10:45 - 11:15
Room: Wilson Hall Curia II
11:15
11:15 - 12:15
Room: Wilson Hall Curia II
Contributions

11:15 Phonon Detection: TES, MKIDS, and Nanowires - matt pyle (University of California Berkeley)

11:45 Crystal Defects and Exotic Signatures - Ranny Budnik (Weizmann Institute of Science)
12:15 Lunch
Lunch
12:15 - 13:30
Room: Wilson Hall Curia II
13:30
13:30 - 15:00
Room: Wilson Hall Curia II
Contributions

13:30 Thermal freeze-out paradigm and the sub-GeV WIMP miracle - Philip Schuster (SLAC)

14:15 Freeze-in, misalignment, and other non-standard thermal histories - Nikita Blinov (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
15:00 Break
Break
15:00 - 15:30
Room: Wilson Hall Curia II
15:30
15:30 - 17:00
Room: Wilson Hall Curia II
Contributions

15:30 Thermal history of the dark sector - Julia (Jessie) Shelton (Harvard Physics)

16:15 Energy-injection constraints from CMB and how to evade them - Samuel Mcdermott
Wednesday, 5 June 2019

08:00 Informal Discussions
Informal Discussions
08:00 - 09:00
Room: Wilson Hall Curia II
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Wilson Hall Curia II
Contributions

09:00 Theory of DM-electron scattering and electronic excitation (semiconductors, scintillators, metals) - Tien-Tien Yu (CERN)

09:30 Theory of DM-induced phonon production (helium, polar materials, superconductors) - Tongyan Lin (UC Berkeley)

10:00 Theory of DM-atom interactions (chemical bond breaking, Migdal effect, absorption) - Oren Slone (Princeton)
10:30 Break
Break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Wilson Hall Curia II
11:00
11:00 - 12:45
Room: Wilson Hall Curia II
Contributions

11:00 Liquid noble e- ionization: Ar - Masayuki Wada (University of Cagliari)

11:15 Liquid noble e- ionization: Xe - Rafael Lang (Purdue University)

11:30 Silicon CCDs and Charge Detectors: SENSEI - Guillermo Fernandez Moroni (Fermilab)

11:45 Silicon CCDs and Charge Detectors: DAMIC-M - Daniel Baxter (Northwestern University)

12:00 Silicon CCDs and Charge Detectors: DANAE - Alexander Bahr

12:15 Cryogenic Charge and Phonon Detectors: SuperCDMS - Noah Kurinsky

12:30 Cryogenic Charge and Phonon Detectors: EDELWEISS - Julian Billard
12:45 Lunch
Lunch
12:45 - 14:00
Room: Wilson Hall Curia II
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Wilson Hall Curia II
Contributions

14:00 Scintillating Cryogenic Detectors: CRESST - Florian Reindl

14:15 Scintillating Cryogenic Detectors: NuCLEUS - Victoria Wagner

14:30 Scintillating GaAs - Stephen Derenzo (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

14:45 Germanium CCDs - Christopher Leitz (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)

15:00 Graphene/Nanotubes - Antonio Polosa

15:15 Gaseous Detectors: NEWS-G - Alexis Brossard (Queen's Univeristy)
15:30 Break
Break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Wilson Hall Curia II
16:00
16:00 - 17:00
Room: Wilson Hall Curia II
Contributions

16:00 Optical Phonon Detectors - Sinead Griffin (LBL)

16:15 Liquid Noble Nuclear Recoil: Ar - Carl Dahl (Northwestern University)

16:30 Liquid Noble Nuclear Recoil: Xe - Alissa Monte

16:45 Superfluid Helium - Harold Pinckney (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Thursday, 6 June 2019

08:30

08:30 - 10:00
Room: KICP
10:00
10:00 - 12:40
Room: ERC 401
Contributions

10:00 Dirac materials and exotic low-gap semiconductors - Yoni Kahn (University of Chicago)

10:20 Superconducting Nanowires - Karl Berggren (MIT)

10:40 MKID R&D for Direct Detection - Ritoban Basu Thakur (California Institute of Technology)

11:00 Optical Haloscopes - Masha Baryakhtar

11:20 Molecular Detectors - Ken Van Tilburg

11:40 Magnons - Kevin Zhang

12:00 Paleo-Detectors - Andrzej Drukier (KICP/UChicago)

12:20 Hydrogenated SIMP and WIMP Targets - Juan Collar (University of Chicago)
12:40 Lunch
Lunch
12:40 - 14:00
Room: KICP

14:00

14:00 - 17:00
Room: KICP

17:00 Conference Dinner
Conference Dinner
17:00 - 20:00

20:00

20:00 - 21:00
Room: Wilson Hall Curia II
Friday, 7 June 2019

08:00 Informal Discussions
Informal Discussions
08:00 - 09:00
Room: Wilson Hall Curia II
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Wilson Hall Curia II
Contributions

09:00 Technological Advancements in Quantum Sensing - Gianpaolo Carosi (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

09:30 Condensed Matter Systems of Interest - Lucas Wagner

10:00 Inducing and Detecting Collective Effects of Particle Dark Matter - Asher Berlin (SLAC)
10:30 Break
Break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Wilson Hall Curia II
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Wilson Hall Curia II
Contributions

11:00 Light Strongly Interacting Dark Matter - Chris Kouvaris

11:30 Accelerator Prospects for Sub-GeV Dark Matter - Torben Ferber

12:00 Constraints on Sub-GeV Dark Matter from Cosmology - Vera Gluscevic
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Wilson Hall Curia II

14:00

14:00 - 15:30
Room: Wilson Hall Curia II

16:00 Kathryn Zurek (LBNL)
Kathryn Zurek (LBNL)
16:00 - 17:00
Room: One West