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

New Directions in the Search for Light Dark Matter Particles

from Tuesday, June 4, 2019 (8:00 AM) to Friday, June 7, 2019 (6:00 PM)

Monday, June 3, 2019
Tuesday, June 4, 2019

8:00 AM Informal discussion
Informal discussion
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: Wilson Hall Curia II
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: Wilson Hall Curia II
Contributions

9:00 AM Welcome - Dan Bauer (Fermilab) Noah Kurinsky

9:15 AM Fundamentals of Direct Detection - Scott Hertel (UMass Amherst)

9:45 AM Photon Detection: PMTs, SiPMs, Scintillators - Claudio Savarese (Princeton)

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

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

11:45 AM Crystal Defects and Exotic Signatures - Ranny Budnik (Weizmann Institute of Science)
12:15 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:15 PM - 1:30 PM
Room: Wilson Hall Curia II
1:30 PM
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Wilson Hall Curia II
Contributions

1:30 PM Thermal freeze-out paradigm and the sub-GeV WIMP miracle - Philip Schuster (SLAC)

2:15 PM Freeze-in, misalignment, and other non-standard thermal histories - Nikita Blinov (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
3:00 PM Break
Break
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Wilson Hall Curia II
3:30 PM
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Wilson Hall Curia II
Contributions

3:30 PM Thermal history of the dark sector - Julia (Jessie) Shelton (Harvard Physics)

4:15 PM Energy-injection constraints from CMB and how to evade them - Samuel Mcdermott
Wednesday, June 5, 2019

8:00 AM Informal Discussions
Informal Discussions
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: Wilson Hall Curia II
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Wilson Hall Curia II
Contributions

9:00 AM Theory of DM-electron scattering and electronic excitation (semiconductors, scintillators, metals) - Tien-Tien Yu (CERN)

9:30 AM Theory of DM-induced phonon production (helium, polar materials, superconductors) - Tongyan Lin (UC Berkeley)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

12:30 PM Cryogenic Charge and Phonon Detectors: EDELWEISS - Julian Billard
12:45 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:45 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Wilson Hall Curia II
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Wilson Hall Curia II
Contributions

2:00 PM Scintillating Cryogenic Detectors: CRESST - Florian Reindl

2:15 PM Scintillating Cryogenic Detectors: NuCLEUS - Victoria Wagner

2:30 PM Scintillating GaAs - Stephen Derenzo (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

2:45 PM Germanium CCDs - Christopher Leitz (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)

3:00 PM Graphene/Nanotubes - Antonio Polosa

3:15 PM Gaseous Detectors: NEWS-G - Alexis Brossard (Queen's Univeristy)
3:30 PM Break
Break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Wilson Hall Curia II
4:00 PM
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Wilson Hall Curia II
Contributions

4:00 PM Optical Phonon Detectors - Sinead Griffin (LBL)

4:15 PM Liquid Noble Nuclear Recoil: Ar - Carl Dahl (Northwestern University)

4:30 PM Liquid Noble Nuclear Recoil: Xe - Alissa Monte

4:45 PM Superfluid Helium - Harold Pinckney (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Thursday, June 6, 2019

8:30 AM

8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: KICP
10:00 AM
10:00 AM - 12:40 PM
Room: ERC 401
Contributions

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

10:20 AM Superconducting Nanowires - Karl Berggren (MIT)

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

11:00 AM Optical Haloscopes - Masha Baryakhtar

11:20 AM Molecular Detectors - Ken Van Tilburg

11:40 AM Magnons - Kevin Zhang

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

12:20 PM Hydrogenated SIMP and WIMP Targets - Juan Collar (University of Chicago)
12:40 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:40 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: KICP

2:00 PM

2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: KICP

5:00 PM Conference Dinner
Conference Dinner
5:00 PM - 8:00 PM

8:00 PM

8:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Room: Wilson Hall Curia II
Friday, June 7, 2019

8:00 AM Informal Discussions
Informal Discussions
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: Wilson Hall Curia II
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Wilson Hall Curia II
Contributions

9:00 AM Technological Advancements in Quantum Sensing - Gianpaolo Carosi (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

9:30 AM Condensed Matter Systems of Interest - Lucas Wagner

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

11:00 AM Light Strongly Interacting Dark Matter - Chris Kouvaris

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

12:00 PM Constraints on Sub-GeV Dark Matter from Cosmology - Vera Gluscevic
12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Wilson Hall Curia II

2:00 PM

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Wilson Hall Curia II

4:00 PM Kathryn Zurek (LBNL)
Kathryn Zurek (LBNL)
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: One West