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WNPPC2026 - 63rd Winter Nuclear & Particle Physics Conference

Feb 12–15, 2026
Banff, Alberta
Canada/Mountain timezone
Congratulations to our WNPPC2026 prize winners!!!

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Session

Dark Matter

Feb 14, 2026, 10:15 a.m.
Kinnear Centre Room (KC 303) (Banff, Alberta)

Kinnear Centre Room (KC 303)

Banff, Alberta

Conveners

Dark Matter: Dark Matter

  • Timothy Friesen (University of Calgary)

Dark Matter: Dark Matter

  • Bruce Howard (York University/Fermilab)

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Dark Matter

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  1. 77. Expanding the Reach of Argon‑Based Dark Matter Searches
    Michela Lai (Queen's University)
    2026-02-14, 10:15 a.m.
    Dark matter searches
    Invited Oral

    Liquid argon has proven to be a powerful medium for detecting GeV‑scale dark matter, as demonstrated by the DEAP‑3600 and DarkSide‑50 experiments. Building on these successes, DarkSide‑20k is now under construction at LNGS as the first flagship detector of the Global Argon Dark Matter Collaboration. With a 50‑tonne ultra‑pure argon target and exceptionally low backgrounds, DarkSide‑20k, in...

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  2. 38. Nuclear Physics in Liquid Argon with DEAP-3600
    Peter Taylor (Queen's University)
    2026-02-15, 10:45 a.m.
    Dark matter searches
    Contributed Oral

    With the technical complexity required by ongoing dark matter direct detection experiments, as well as requiring more refined background rejection techniques, some direct detection experiments have the ability to investigate neutrinos as well. One such detector in recent years involves the liquid argon based DEAP-3600 experiment. The detector assembly allows for nearly 3600 kg of liquid argon...

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  3. 33. Pushing Boundaries of WIMP Detection with DarkSide-20k
    Ryan Curtis (Queen's University)
    2026-02-15, 11:00 a.m.
    Dark matter searches
    Contributed Oral

    The Global Argon Dark Matter Collaboration (GADMC), formed to unite liquid argon–based dark matter experiments, is currently constructing its next-generation experiment DarkSide-20k. Located at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS), DarkSide-20k builds upon the success of previous argon experiments, including its predecessor, DarkSide-50, to continue the search for weakly interacting...

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  4. 4. Updates on the Scintillating Bubble Chamber Experiment
    Ezri Wyman (Queen's University)
    2026-02-15, 11:15 a.m.
    Dark matter searches
    Contributed Oral

    The Scintillating Bubble Chamber (SBC) collaboration combines historic bubble chamber technologies with the scintillation properties of liquid nobles to create a detector uniquely suited to low threshold rare event searches. The collaboration has built two nearly identical assemblies; SBC-LAr10 is being used for calibration studies at Fermilab and planned future coherent elastic...

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  5. 45. Dark Matter Search Results from DEAP-3600
    Spencer Haskins, on behalf of the DEAP collaboration (Carleton University)
    2026-02-15, 11:30 a.m.
    Dark matter searches
    Contributed Oral

    The latest results from the DEAP-3600 experiment in the search for dark matter will be presented. DEAP-3600 is a direct detection experiment that uses 3.3 tonnes of liquid argon as its target material. Located over 2 km underground at SNOLAB in Sudbury, Canada, the detector is designed to observe scintillation light from nuclear recoils induced by dark matter interactions. Pulse-shape...

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