New Directions in the Search for Light Dark Matter Particles

4 Jun 2019, 08:00 → 7 Jun 2019, 18:00 US/Central

Wilson Hall Curia II (Fermilab)

Alissa Monte, Dan Bauer (Fermilab), Daniel Baxter (Northwestern University), Gordan Krnjaic (Fermilab), Javier Tiffenberg (Fermilab), Noah Kurinsky, Samuel Mcdermott, Yonatan Kahn (Princeton University)

This workshop aims to bring together the various international communities, both experimental and theoretical, working on new technologies and models for light (sub-GeV) dark matter particles, in order to explore the feasibility of these new ideas. At the same time, we aim to connect this work to advances in next-generation imaging technology and quantum measurement, which have synergies with the field of dark matter research. The workshop is funded (in part) by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, which fosters path-breaking scientific discovery, environmental conservation, patient care improvements and preservation of the special character of the Bay Area. Visit Moore.org and follow @MooreFound.

Slides BLIMP_Dark_Matter.pdf workshop_talk_guidance_rev1.pdf

Tuesday, 4 June

08:00 Informal discussion

Discussions prior to the start of session

Overview Talks I

Convener: Dan Bauer (Fermilab)

1 Welcome

Speakers: Dan Bauer (Fermilab), Noah Kurinsky

2 Fundamentals of Direct Detection

Speaker: Prof. Scott Hertel (UMass Amherst)

Slides hertel_fnal_2019.pdf

3 Photon Detection: PMTs, SiPMs, Scintillators

Speaker: Dr Claudio Savarese (Princeton)

Slides Scintillation_PMTs_SiPMs.pdf

4 Charge Detection and Measurement

Speaker: Prof. Alvaro Chavarria (University of Washington)

Slides chavarria_LDM.pdf

10:45 Break

Overview Talks II

Convener: Noah Kurinsky

5 Phonon Detection: TES, MKIDS, and Nanowires

Speaker: Dr matt pyle (University of California Berkeley)

Slides Calorimeter_Overview.pdf

6 Crystal Defects and Exotic Signatures

Speaker: Dr Ranny Budnik (Weizmann Institute of Science)

Slides Fermilab_LDM_2019.pdf

12:15 Lunch

Overview Talks III

Convener: Samuel Mcdermott

7 Thermal freeze-out paradigm and the sub-GeV WIMP miracle

Speaker: Dr Philip Schuster (SLAC)

Slides FNAL_Schuster_June2019.pdf

8 Freeze-in, misalignment, and other non-standard thermal histories

Speaker: Nikita Blinov (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

Slides pres.pdf

15:00 Break

Overview Talks IV

Convener: Kevin Kelly

9 Thermal history of the dark sector

Speaker: Dr Julia (Jessie) Shelton (Harvard Physics)

Slides 190604-FNAL_DM_no_notes.pdf

10 Energy-injection constraints from CMB and how to evade them

Speaker: Samuel Mcdermott

Slides cmb-and-evade.pdf

Wednesday, 5 June

08:00 Informal Discussions

Theory of Interactions

Convener: Yoni Kahn (University of Chicago)

11 Theory of DM-electron scattering and electronic excitation (semiconductors, scintillators, metals)

Speaker: Tien-Tien Yu (CERN)

Slides DMe-interactions_FNAL_June2019.pdf

12 Theory of DM-induced phonon production (helium, polar materials, superconductors)

Speaker: Tongyan Lin (UC Berkeley)

Slides 06_2019_Fermilab_fixed.pdf

13 Theory of DM-atom interactions (chemical bond breaking, Migdal effect, absorption)

Speaker: Oren Slone (Princeton)

Slides Theory_of_Bound_Nuclei.pdf

10:30 Break

Future Experiments I

Convener: Alissa Monte

14 Liquid noble e- ionization: Ar

Speaker: Masayuki Wada (University of Cagliari)

Slides LMDM_Fermilab.pdf

15 Liquid noble e- ionization: Xe

Speaker: Prof. Rafael Lang (Purdue University)

Slides rafael_lbeca.pdf

16 Silicon CCDs and Charge Detectors: SENSEI

Speaker: Dr Guillermo Fernandez Moroni (Fermilab)

Slides LDM_workshop.pdf

17 Silicon CCDs and Charge Detectors: DAMIC-M

Speaker: Daniel Baxter (Northwestern University)

Slides DAMIC_060519.pdf

18 Silicon CCDs and Charge Detectors: DANAE

Speaker: Alexander Bahr

Slides Baehr_DMWorkshop19.pdf

19 Cryogenic Charge and Phonon Detectors: SuperCDMS

Speaker: Noah Kurinsky

Slides LDM2019.pdf

20 Cryogenic Charge and Phonon Detectors: EDELWEISS

Speaker: Julian Billard

Slides LDM_Chicago_Billard.pdf

12:45 Lunch

Future Experiments II

Convener: Noah Kurinsky

21 Scintillating Cryogenic Detectors: CRESST

Speaker: Florian Reindl

Slides CRESST_Reindl_LDM_2019

22 Scintillating Cryogenic Detectors: NuCLEUS

Speaker: Victoria Wagner

Slides NUCLEUS_VWagner.pdf

23 Scintillating GaAs

Speaker: Dr Stephen Derenzo (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

Slides June_4-7_DOE_workshop_on_light_dark_matter_190604.pdf

24 Germanium CCDs

Speaker: Dr Christopher Leitz (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)

Slides Leitz_Germanium_CCDs_2019_0605_FINAL.pdf Leitz_Germanium_CCDs_2019_0605_FINAL.pptx

25 Graphene/Nanotubes

Speaker: Antonio Polosa

Slides CNT_G_polosa.pdf

26 Gaseous Detectors: NEWS-G

Speaker: Mr Alexis Brossard (Queen's Univeristy)

Slides News_G_Fermilab_June5.pdf

15:30 Break

Future Experiments III

Convener: Daniel Baxter (Northwestern University)

27 Optical Phonon Detectors

Speaker: Sinead Griffin (LBL)

Slides subgev_fermilab_griffin.pdf

28 Liquid Noble Nuclear Recoil: Ar

Speaker: Dr Carl Dahl (Northwestern University)

Slides Dahl_SBC_FNAL-KICP-NewDirLDM.pdf

29 Liquid Noble Nuclear Recoil: Xe

Speaker: Alissa Monte

Slides NDitSfLSMP_HydroX.pdf

30 Superfluid Helium

Speaker: Mr Harold Pinckney (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

Slides Pinckney_Fermilab_New_Directions.pdf

Thursday, 6 June

Travel via shuttle bus from Fermilab to Hotel to KICP

Future Experiments IV

Conveners: Daniel Baxter (Northwestern University), Yoni Kahn (University of Chicago)

31 Dirac materials and exotic low-gap semiconductors

Speaker: Yoni Kahn (University of Chicago)

Slides DiracMaterials_Kahn.pdf

32 Superconducting Nanowires

Speaker: Prof. Karl Berggren (MIT)

Slides Batavia_2019-06-06-Fermilab.pdf https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1nens-3y8LOTY2w7KV_RpYW16oXBLlcDE9AW-_hgrVdY/edit?usp=sharing

33 MKID R&D for Direct Detection

Speaker: Dr Ritoban Basu Thakur (California Institute of Technology)

Slides KICP_SubGeVDMMKID_RBT.pdf

34 Optical Haloscopes

Speaker: Masha Baryakhtar

Slides LightDMFermi.pdf

35 Molecular Detectors

Speaker: Ken Van Tilburg

Slides kicp-20190606-pdf.pdf

36 Magnons

Speaker: Kevin Zhang

Slides 1906_magnon_short.key.zip 1906_magnon_short.pdf

37 Paleo-Detectors

Speaker: Andrzej Drukier (KICP/UChicago)

Slides FNALDrukier.pdf

38 Hydrogenated SIMP and WIMP Targets

Speaker: Juan Collar (University of Chicago)

Slides collar_hydrogenated.pdf

12:40 Lunch

Collaborative Work

17:00 Conference Dinner

Travel via Shuttle Bus from KICP to Hotel to Fermilab

Friday, 7 June

08:00 Informal Discussions

New Ideas I

Convener: Alissa Monte

39 Technological Advancements in Quantum Sensing

Speaker: Dr Gianpaolo Carosi (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

Slides New_Directions_in_Light_DM_Carosi_Final.pptx

40 Condensed Matter Systems of Interest

Speaker: Lucas Wagner

Slides 2019_6_DM_Fermilab.pdf

41 Inducing and Detecting Collective Effects of Particle Dark Matter

Speaker: Asher Berlin (SLAC)

Slides Berlin_FNAL_5_19.pdf

10:30 Break

New Ideas II

Convener: Samuel Mcdermott

42 Light Strongly Interacting Dark Matter

Speaker: Chris Kouvaris

43 Accelerator Prospects for Sub-GeV Dark Matter

Speaker: Torben Ferber

Slides 2019_06_ferber_NewSearches_v2.pdf

44 Constraints on Sub-GeV Dark Matter from Cosmology

Speaker: Vera Gluscevic

Slides fermilab2019-cosmological-probes-dm-gluscevic.pdf

12:30 Lunch

Moderated Panel Discussion

Convener: Prof. Edward "Rocky" Kolb (University of Chicago)

Wine and Cheese: Prospects for Direct Detection of Low-Mass Dark Matter: Kathryn Zurek (LBNL)

Convener: Kathryn Zurek (Berkeley Lab)