Mini-Symposium: Particle Dark Matter

Presentations

• The present and future of particle dark matter

  Invited-In-person · Invited

  March 18, 2026, 3:30 PM – March 18, 2026, 4:06 PM

  Presenters

  • Benjamin Lehmann

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Authors

  • Benjamin Lehmann

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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• The SBC Dark Matter Experiment and Calibration Plan

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 4:06 PM – March 18, 2026, 4:18 PM

  Publication: E. Alfonso-Pita and et al. Scintillating bubble chambers for rare event searches. Universe, 9(8), 2023.
  E. Alfonso-Pita and et al. Snowmass 2021 scintillating bubble chambers: Liquid-noble bubble chambers for dark matter and CEvNS detection. arXiv.Org, 2022.
  H. Hawley-Herrera and et al. Batch VUV4 characterization for the SBC-LAr10 scintillating bubble chamber. Journal of Instrumentation, 19(08), T08003, 2024.

  Presenters

  • Daniel Pyda

    • Drexel University

  Authors

  • Daniel Pyda

    • Drexel University

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• "The LUX-ZEPLIN Outer Detector Performance and Position Reconstruction with Machine Learning Algorithms" Tea Hall, University of Liverpool, on behalf of the LUX-ZEPLIN Collaboration

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 4:18 PM – March 18, 2026, 4:30 PM

  Presenters

  • Tea Hall

    • University of Liverpool

  Authors

  • Tea Hall

    • University of Liverpool

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• CrystaLiZe: Toward a Neutrino Limited Dark Matter Search with Crystal Xenon

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 4:30 PM – March 18, 2026, 4:42 PM

  Presenters

  • Kristina Mannix

    • University of Texas at Austin

  Authors

  • Kristina Mannix

    • University of Texas at Austin

  • Gregory Sehr

    • University of Texas at Austin

  • Chloe O'Brien

    • University of Texas at Austin

  • Dan Hunt

    • University of Texas at Austin

  • Scott Kravitz

    • The University of Texas at Austin

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• Particle Detection Using Magnetic Avalanche in Single-Molecule Magnet Crystals

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 4:42 PM – March 18, 2026, 4:54 PM

  Publication: arxiv.org/abs/2508.02467,
  10.48550/arXiv.2002.09409

  Presenters

  • Bailey Kohn

    • Texas A&M University College Station

  Authors

  • Bailey Kohn

    • Texas A&M University College Station

  • Rupak Mahapatra

    • Texas A&M University College Station

  • Ivan Borzenets

    • Texas A&M University College Station

  • Lok Raj Pant

    • Texas A&M University College Station

  • Amis Sharma

    • Texas A&M University College Station

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• Ancient Minerals as Dark Matter Detectors

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 4:54 PM – March 18, 2026, 5:06 PM

  Presenters

  • Hannah Ross

    • University of Michigan

  Authors

  • Hannah Ross

    • University of Michigan

  • Emilie LaVoie-Ingram

    • University of Michigan

  • Audrey Wu

    • University of Michigan

  • Joshua Spitz

    • University of Michigan

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• Cross-sections and experimental signatures for detection of a well-defined dark matter WIMP

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 5:06 PM – March 18, 2026, 5:18 PM

  Publication: Bailey Tallman, Jehu Martinez, Rohan Shankar, Kane Rylander and Roland E. Allen, "Cross-sections and experimental signatures for detection of a well-defined dark matter WIMP", EPL [Europhysics Letters] 151, 44001 (2025), arXiv:2506.19719 [hep-ph].

  Presenters

  • Roland Allen

    • Texas A&M University College Station

  Authors

  • Roland Allen

    • Texas A&M University College Station

  • Bailey Tallman

    • Texas A&M University

  • Jehu Martinez

    • Texas A&M University College Station

  • Rohan Shankar

    • Texas A&M University

  • Kane Rylander

    • Texas A&M University College Station

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