GUINEAPIG Workshop on Light Dark Matter

8 Sept 2022, 09:00 → 10 Sept 2022, 13:00 US/Pacific

Auditorium (TRIUMF)

Erica Brunelle (SNOLAB), Miriam Diamond (University of Toronto), Pietro Giampa (SNOLAB), David McKeen (TRIUMF), David Morrissey (TRIUMF), Alan Robinson (U de Montréal), Katelin Schutz (McGill University)

GUINEAPIG = GeV and Under Invisibles with New Experimental Assays for Particles in the Ground

This workshop will bring together leading experts to discuss new ideas and direct search methods for lighter, sub-GeV, particle dark matter. Additional details can be found here.

GUINEAPIG is supported by the McDonald Institute, SNOLAB, and TRIUMF.

Logo by Saniya Heeba.

Thursday, 8 September

09:00 → 09:15 Opening Remarks

09:15 → 10:45 Motivation and Cosmology of Light Dark Matter

09:15 Theory Priors in the Search for Light Dark Matter

Speaker: Nikita Blinov (U Victoria)

blinov.pdf

09:45 Light Dark Matter Through the Ages

Speaker: Saniya Heeba (McGill University)

heeba.pdf

10:15 Discussion

10:45 → 11:00 Break

11:00 → 12:30 Direct Searches for Light Dark Matter

11:00 The SuperCDMS Experiment at SNOLAB

Speaker: Emanuele Michielin (TRIUMF/UBC)

michielin_GUINEA.pdf

11:30 NEWS-G: early results and future prospects

Speaker: Philippe Gros (Queen's University)

gros.pdf

12:00 Discussion

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 15:30 Direct Searches for Light Dark Matter

13:30 Searching for light dark matter wiith DAMIC and DAMIC-M

Speaker: Alvaro Chavarria (University of Washington)

chavarria.pdf

14:00 Light Dark Matter Search with the Scintillating Bubble Chamber

Speaker: Ken Clark (Queen's U/TRIUMF)

clark.pdf

14:30 SENSEI: An Ultrasensitive Search for Sub-GeV Dark Matter

Speakers: Ana Martina Botti (Fermilab), Silvia Scorza (SNOLAB)

botti.pdf

15:00 Discussion

15:30 → 16:00 Break

Friday, 9 September

09:00 → 09:15 Welcome to TRIUMF

Speaker: Nigel Smith (TRIUMF)

09:15 → 10:45 New Directions for LDM Detection

09:15 SNOLAB Facility and Science

Speaker: Jeter Hall (SNOLAB)

hall.pdf

09:45 Organic scintillator crystals for sub-GeV daily modulation searches

Speaker: Yonatan Kahn (University of Illinois)

kahn.pdf

10:15 Discussion

10:45 → 11:00 Break

11:00 → 12:30 New Directions for LDM Detection

11:00 Multiphonon Excitations in Dark Matter Direct Detection

Speaker: Tongyan Lin (UC San Diego)

lin.pdf

11:30 New directions in eV-scale phonon sensing

Speaker: Noah Kurinsky (SLAC)

12:00 Discussion

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 15:30 Why EDI Matters; and How Do We Encourage it within Collaborations?

Conveners: Anna Kwiatkowski (TRIUMF), Erica Caden (SNOLAB), Pekka Sinervo (University of Toronto)

EDI resources collected by Alexandra Pedersen (McDonald Institute)

GP-EDIA.pdf

LGBT+ Inclusivity in Physics and Astronomy

13:30 EDI Panel

Why EDI Matters; and How Do We Encourage it within Collaborations?

Speakers: Anna Kwiatkowski (TRIUMF), Erica Caden (SNOLAB), Pekka Sinervo (University of Toronto)

GP-EDIA.pdf

14:30 EDI resources collected by Alexandra Pedersen (McDonald Institute)

EDI resources collected by Alexandra Pedersen (McDonald Institute)

Pedersen.pdf

15:00 Discussion

15:30 → 16:00 Break

Saturday, 10 September

09:15 → 10:45 New Directions for LDM Detection

09:15 Astrophysical Uncertainties in Dark Matter-Electron Scattering Experiments

Speaker: Tien-Tien Yu (University of Oregon)

yu.pdf

09:45 Development of new technqiues for low-mass dark matter detection

Speaker: Daniel Baxter (Fermilab)

baxter.pdf

10:15 Discussion

10:45 → 11:00 Break

11:00 → 12:30 New Directions for LDM Detection

11:00 Design and testing of a monoenergetic 24 keV neutron source for calibration of low threshold dark matter detectors

Speaker: Daniel McKinsey (UC Berkeley)

mckinsey.pdf

11:30 Qubit performance meets low-mass dark matter searches

Speaker: John Orrell (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

orrell.pdf

12:00 Discussion