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

1 Opening Remarks

Motivation and Cosmology of Light Dark Matter

2 Theory Priors in the Search for Light Dark Matter

Speaker: Nikita Blinov (U Victoria)

blinov.pdf

3 Light Dark Matter Through the Ages

Speaker: Saniya Heeba (McGill University)

heeba.pdf

4 Discussion

10:45 Break

Direct Searches for Light Dark Matter

5 The SuperCDMS Experiment at SNOLAB

Speaker: Emanuele Michielin (TRIUMF/UBC)

michielin_GUINEA.pdf

6 NEWS-G: early results and future prospects

Speaker: Philippe Gros (Queen's University)

gros.pdf

7 Discussion

12:30 Lunch

Direct Searches for Light Dark Matter

8 Searching for light dark matter wiith DAMIC and DAMIC-M

Speaker: Alvaro Chavarria (University of Washington)

chavarria.pdf

9 Light Dark Matter Search with the Scintillating Bubble Chamber

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

clark.pdf

10 SENSEI: An Ultrasensitive Search for Sub-GeV Dark Matter

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

botti.pdf

11 Discussion

15:30 Break

Friday, 9 September

12 Welcome to TRIUMF

Speaker: Nigel Smith (TRIUMF)

New Directions for LDM Detection

13 SNOLAB Facility and Science

Speaker: Jeter Hall (SNOLAB)

hall.pdf

14 Organic scintillator crystals for sub-GeV daily modulation searches

Speaker: Yonatan Kahn (University of Illinois)

kahn.pdf

15 Discussion

10:45 Break

New Directions for LDM Detection

16 Multiphonon Excitations in Dark Matter Direct Detection

Speaker: Tongyan Lin (UC San Diego)

lin.pdf

17 New directions in eV-scale phonon sensing

Speaker: Noah Kurinsky (SLAC)

18 Discussion

12:30 Lunch

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

19 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

20 EDI resources collected by Alexandra Pedersen (McDonald Institute)

EDI resources collected by Alexandra Pedersen (McDonald Institute)

Pedersen.pdf

21 Discussion

15:30 Break

Saturday, 10 September

New Directions for LDM Detection

22 Astrophysical Uncertainties in Dark Matter-Electron Scattering Experiments

Speaker: Tien-Tien Yu (University of Oregon)

yu.pdf

23 Development of new technqiues for low-mass dark matter detection

Speaker: Daniel Baxter (Fermilab)

baxter.pdf

24 Discussion

10:45 Break

New Directions for LDM Detection

25 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

26 Qubit performance meets low-mass dark matter searches

Speaker: John Orrell (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

orrell.pdf

27 Discussion