Dark Matter II

Presentations

• Underground Testing and Characterization of Skipper CCD Modules for DAMIC-M

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 3:30 PM – March 18, 2026, 3:42 PM

  Presenters

  • Cinyu Zhu

    • Johns Hopkins University

  Authors

  • Cinyu Zhu

    • Johns Hopkins University

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• Search for Upward-Going Muons from Dark Matter within the Earth

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 3:42 PM – March 18, 2026, 3:54 PM

  Presenters

  • Sanjit Masanam

    • University of California, Santa Barbara

  Authors

  • Sanjit Masanam

    • University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Tamas Vami

    • University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Liam Brennan

    • University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Danyi Zhang

    • University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Matthew Bellis

    • Siena College

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• Progress Toward Measuring the Ionization Yield of Germanium Using a SuperCDMS-Style High-Voltage (HV) Detector at NEXUS

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 3:54 PM – March 18, 2026, 4:06 PM

  Presenters

  • Christopher Hays

    • Northwestern University

  Authors

  • Christopher Hays

    • Northwestern University

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• Exploring Low-Mass Dark Matter and Neutrinos with Germanium-Based Quantum Sensors

  Oral-In-person

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

  Presenters

  • Sunil Chhetri

    • University of South Dakota

  Authors

  • Sunil Chhetri

    • University of South Dakota

  • Dongming Mei

    • University of South Dakota

  • Sanjay Bhattarai

    • University of South Dakota

  • Narayan Budhathoki

    • University of South Dakota

  • Kunming Dong

    • University of South Dakota

  • Austin Warren

    • University of South Dakota

  • SHASIKA PANAMALDENIYA

    • University of South Dakota

  • Athul Prem

    • University of South Dakota

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• Searching for Light Dark Matter with Narrow-Gap Semiconductors: The SPLENDOR Experiment

  Oral-In-person

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

  Presenters

  • Owen Andrews

    • California State University, East Bay

  Authors

  • Owen Andrews

    • California State University, East Bay

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• Search for Dark Sector Particles Using CsI(Tl) Detectors and Radioactive Sources via the Missing-Gamma Approach

  Oral-In-person

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

  Presenters

  • Sharada Sahoo

    • Texas A&M University College Station

  Authors

  • Sharada Sahoo

    • Texas A&M University College Station

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• Dark Matter Searches at PICO

  Oral-In-person

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

  Presenters

  • Mayank Tripathi

    • University of Chicago

  Authors

  • Mayank Tripathi

    • University of Chicago

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• Unified Cloud-Native Metadata Discovery with Trino, Superset and Ibis in the LZ Dark Matter Experiment

  Oral-In-person

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

  Presenters

  • Eli Mizrachi

    • SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

  Authors

  • Eli Mizrachi

    • SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

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• Dark Matter as Antimatter Galaxies in the Composite Photon Theory

  Oral-In-person

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

  Publication: Walton A. Perkins, (2025) Dark Matter as Antimatter Galaxies in the Composite Photon Theory. Journal of Modern Physics, 16, 1409-1414.

  Presenters

  • Walton Perkins

    • Thorium Vision Corporation

  Authors

  • Walton Perkins

    • Thorium Vision Corporation

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