GUINEAPIG 2023 Workshop on Light Dark Matter

11 Jul 2023, 10:00 → 13 Jul 2023, 20:00 US/Eastern

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

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

After a successful 2022 edition, GUINEAPIG 2023 is returning even furrier and squeakier than before to bring together leading experts to discuss new ideas and direct search methods for lighter, sub-GeV, particle dark matter.

GUINEAPIG is supported by the Institute for Particle Physics, McDonald Institute, SNOLAB, TRIUMF, and the Trottier Space Institute at McGill.

Logo by Saniya Heeba.

 

GUINEAPIG Agenda - July 11-13, 2023.pdf

Montreal Cuisine Suggestion Slides.pdf

Tuesday, 11 July

10:00 → 10:15 Opening Remarks

10:15 → 10:45 Probing cosmic histories in the lab

Speaker: Jessie Shelton (UIUC)

230711-guineapig.pdf

10:45 → 11:15 New Opportunities to Detect Axion Dark Matter

Speaker: Asher Berlin (Fermilab)

Berlin_GuineaPig_7_23.pdf

11:15 → 11:45 Discussion

11:45 → 12:45 Lunch

12:45 → 13:15 Improving dark matter sensitivities with new ionization detectors

Speaker: Daniel Egaña-Ugrinovic (Perimeter Institute)

13:15 → 13:45 New directions for direct detection with dielectrics

Speaker: Ben Lehmann (MIT)

Benjamin Lehmann.pdf

13:45 → 14:15 Discussion

14:15 → 14:45 Break

14:45 → 15:15 The entanglement of quantum computing and dark matter searches

Speaker: Christopher Wilson (University of Waterloo)

Chris Wilson.pdf

15:15 → 15:45 Leveraging Quantum Sensors for Dark Matter Detection

Speaker: Daniel Baxter (University of Chicago)

Dan Baxter.pdf

15:45 → 16:15 Sub-GeV DM Detection using Superconducting Tunnel Junction Sensors

Speaker: Geon-Bo Kim (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

Geon-Bo Kim.pdf

16:15 → 16:45 Discussion

18:00 → 20:00 Evening Dinner

Sign up sheets will be distributed with the goal of small groups going out to separate restaurants.

Options:
- Rumi (https://www.restaurantrumi.com/?lang=en)
- Les Enfants Terribles (https://www.jesuisunenfantterrible.com/en/outremont/)
- Ciccheti (https://bar-cicchetti.business.site/)
- Punjab Palace (https://punjabpalace.ca/)
- Étoile Rouge (https://restaurant-etoile-rouge.business.site/)
- Pizzeria No. 900 (https://no900.com/nos-pizzerias/bernard-montreal/)
- Falafel Yoni (https://www.falafelyoni.com/)

Wednesday, 12 July

10:00 → 10:15 Morning Snacks

10:15 → 10:45 Searching for sub-GeV dark matter with SuperCDMS

Speaker: Ziqing Hong (University of Toronto)

Ziqing Hong.pdf

10:45 → 11:15 Reaching the meV Scale for Direct Detection with Quantum Sensors

Speaker: Noah Kurinsky (SLAC)

11:15 → 11:45 Discussion

11:45 → 12:45 Lunch

12:45 → 13:15 Latest results from the NEWS-G experiment

Speaker: Jean-Marie Coquillat (Queen's University)

GUINEAPIG 2023 NEWS-G.pdf

13:15 → 13:45 QUEST-DMC: Probing Dark Matter with Nanowires, Superfluid Helium-3 and Quantum Sensors

Speaker: Paolo Franchini (University of Lancaster)

Franchini_GUINEAPIG-2023.pdf

13:45 → 14:15 Discussion

14:15 → 14:45 Break

14:45 → 15:15 Expanding Dark Matter Direct Detection Reach Through Loops

Speaker: Melissa Diamond (Queen's University)

Melissa Diamond.pdf

15:15 → 15:45 Thermal-ish targets for Dirac-ish dark matter

Speaker: Saniya Heeba (McGill University)

15:45 → 16:15 Update on the Montreal X17 Search Experiment

Speaker: Viktor Zacek (University of Montreal)

Guineapig23_X17_V_Zacek.pdf

16:15 → 16:45 Discussion

Thursday, 13 July

10:00 → 10:15 Morning Snacks

10:15 → 10:45 Progress Toward Low-Mass Dark Matter Detection with Superfluid He (HeRALD) and Polar Crystals (SPICE)

We report on the recent progress of the SPICE/HeRALD (or TESSERACT) collaboration in developing detectors for dark matter masses down to 10MeV with the potential to upgrade for reach down to sub-MeV masses. SPICE and HeRALD are currently in an R&D phase of pushing the recoil energy thresholds of Transition Edge Sensors (TES) down to the sub-eV range, which can then be applied to well-motivated target materials. HeRALD uses superfluid 4He as a target, which has the advantage of a low-mass target nucleus and quantum evaporation-based detection of phonon energy. SPICE employs crystalline targets such as the polar crystals GaAs and Sapphire, which couple strongly to dark photon mediated DM. Both experiments are currently making pushes to reduce the ubiquitous low-energy excess background, which originates from spontaneous phonon emission by the calorimeter materials themselves and likely is the primary background in phonon-based detector experiments at eV-scales.

Speaker: David Osterman (University of Massachusetts)

David Osterman.pdf

10:45 → 11:15 CUTE: A Cryogenic Underground TEst Facility at SNOLAB

Speaker: Andy Kubik (SNOLAB)

Andy Kubik.pdf

11:15 → 11:45 An Analytic Approach to Light Dark Matter Attenuation

Speaker: Christopher Cappiello (Queen's University)

GUINEAPIG Cappiello.pdf

GUINEAPIG Cappiello.pptx

11:45 → 12:15 Discussion

12:15 → 13:15 Lunch

13:15 → 15:15 Ice Cream March

The planning committee invites you to attend a Montreal-
driven Ice Cream March, which will allow participants to
experience multiple frozen treats!

A Café Crawl will be substituted in case of bad weather