Blois 2022: 33rd Rencontres de Blois on "Exploring the Dark Universe"

22 May 2022, 15:00 → 27 May 2022, 13:45 Europe/Paris

Gaston d'Orléans

Christophe Grojean (DESY (Hamburg) and Humboldt University (Berlin)), Jacques Dumarchez (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

This will be the 33rd meeting in this series of annual international multidisciplinary meetings, created in 1989 by Jean Trân Than Vân and which has in the past covered many topics in physics, astronomy and biology. All sessions take place in the Château of Blois, a beautiful renaissance castle which has housed many French kings, and notably François 1st. The 33rd Rencontres de Blois on "Exploring the Dark Universe" (Blois2022) review the most recent status of the field of Dark Matter, a lively and exciting scientific domain related to Cosmology, Astroparticles and Particle Physics. it will emphasize the big questions concerning the nature of Dark Matter and Dark Energy as seen both from high energy accelerator based physics and from deep underground experiments as well as from astrophysics and cosmology. The conference will consist of plenary sessions for invited in-depth oral presentations (review talks) and contributed papers, in the form of relatively short oral papers. We will aim to achieve a balance between review talks, provocative talks given by recognized specialists, and shorter contributions. Special emphasis is being placed on active participation by younger researchers and post-docs. Parallel sessions are foreseen, and are being organised as the need arises.

Sunday 22 May

15:00 → 19:00 Registration

19:00 → 20:00 Reception

20:00 → 22:00 Dinner

Monday 23 May

09:00 → 09:45 Opening

Convener: Jean TRAN THANH VAN

09:45 → 10:15 Coffee Break

10:15 → 12:30 Highlights

Convener: Jacques Dumarchez (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

10:30 Observational Signatures of Quantum Gravity: Searching for UV Physics in the Infrared

Speaker: Kathryn Zurek (Caltech)

22_Blois_KathrynZurek.pdf

11:10 Black hole superradiance to search for new particles

Speaker: Diego Blas (UAB/IFAE)

03_blas.pdf

11:50 The Antares Adventure

Speaker: Antoine David Kouchner (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

04_kouchner.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:30 Dark Matter direct detection

Convener: Gilles Gerbier (Queen's Univesrity)

14:00 The Status and Prospects for Liquid Noble Dark Matter Experiments

Speaker: Bjoern Penning (Brandeis University)

05_Blois2022_Penning.pdf

14:30 Dark Matter in 2022: A (parameter) Space Odyssey

Speaker: Aaron Vincent (Queen's University)

02_vincent.pdf

15:00 Cryogenic Solid-State Detectors

Speaker: Ziqing Hong (University of Toronto)

03_hong.pdf

15:30 → 15:40 Conference Photograph

15:40 → 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 → 17:00 Light DM scenarios / new experimental searches

Convener: Gérard Fontaine (LLR)

16:00 New materials for light DM detection

Speaker: Yonatan Kahn (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

04_kahn.pdf

16:30 Searching for Light and Ultralight Dark Matter:The SENSEI and NASDUCK

Speaker: Tomer Volansky (Tel Aviv University (IL))

05_volansky.pdf

17:00 → 18:30 Visit of the Chateau

20:00 → 22:00 Dinner

Tuesday 24 May

09:00 → 10:30 GW probes of Dark Sectors

Convener: Juan Garcia-Bellido Capdevila (Universidad Autonoma Madrid)

09:00 Gravitational-wave signatures of dark matter around black holes

Speaker: Danid Nichols (University of Virginia)

NicholsTalk.pdf

09:30 Adopting axion dark matter ideas to detect high-frequency gravitational waves

Speaker: Camilo Garcia Cely (IFIC Valencia)

BloisGarciaCely.pdf

10:00 Dark Energy: recent results and prospects for the upcoming era of multi-messenger studies

Speaker: Marcelle Soares-Santos (Brandeis University)

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:30 FIPS / ALPS

Convener: Corinne Augier (IP2I - Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1)

11:00 News from sub-GeV FI(N)Ps

Speaker: Joerg Jaeckel (ITP Heidelberg)

Joerg Jaeckel.pdf

11:30 Dark photon stars

Speaker: Edward Hardy

Blois_Hardy_2.pdf

12:00 Axion searches at DESY: ALPS II, BabyIAXO and MADMAX

Speaker: Axel Lindner

06_lindner.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:30 DM indirect detection

Convener: Emmanuel Moulin (CEA Saclay)

14:00 Dark Stars: A Dark Matter-Powered Phase of Stellar Evolution

Speaker: Pearl Sandick

sandick.pdf

14:30 Cosmic antiparticles: is there room for dark matter?

Speaker: Yoann Genolini (LAPTh)

02_Yoann_GENOLINI.pdf

15:00 The Landscape of Dark Matter Indirect Detection

Speaker: Nicholas Llewellyn Rodd (CERN)

IDLandscape.pdf

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 → 19:30 Parallel Session Tuesday-Cosmology

Convener: Gérard Fontaine (LLR Palaiseau)

16:15 Exploring the Dark Universe with the South Pole Telescope

Speaker: Alexandra Rahlin

blois_2022_rahlin.pdf

16:35 An Independent Measurement of H0 from Lensed Quasars

Speaker: Kenneth Wong

ken_wong.pdf

16:55 Detection of Cosmological 21cm Emission with CHIME

Speaker: Simon Foreman

sforeman_blois_slides.pdf

17:15 Data Acquisition and Control Software for the Simons Observatory

Speaker: Lauren Saunders

Saunders Blois Parallel Talk.pdf

17:35 Constraining decaying dark matter with BOSS data and the effective field theory of large-scale structures

Speaker: Théo Simon

Presentation_TheoSIMON.pdf

17:55 Status of QUBIC, the Q\&U Bolometric Interferometer for Cosmology

Speaker: Louise Mousset (IRAP)

QUBIC_Mousset_Louise_Blois2022

18:15 Cosmological results from the eBOSS collaboration

Speaker: Andreu Font-Ribera (Institut de Física d'Altes Energies (IFAE))

eBOSS_FontRibera.pdf

16:00 → 19:30 Parallel Session Tuesday-Dark Matter

Convener: Emmanuel Moulin (CEA Saclay)

16:15 Upper limits on the dark matter content in globular clusters

Speaker: Javier Reynoso (University of Turin)

reynoso.pdf

16:35 SuperCDMS SNOLAB Status and Plans

Speaker: Rupak Mahapatra (Texas A&M University)

SuperCDMS_Blois_Mahapatra.pdf

SuperCDMS_Blois_Mahapatra.pptx

16:55 Search for light WIMP recoils on methane with NEWS-G

Speaker: Francisco Andres Vazquez de Sola

FVazquez_NEWSG_Blois2022.pdf

17:15 First 100 eV nuclear recoil ionization yield measurement in Si from IMPACT

Speaker: Benjamin Schmidt (Northwestern Univsersity)

4.2022_05_24_IMPACT_BLOIS_BenSchmidt_Final.pdf

17:35 Direct dark matter detection with NaI-based low-temperature scintillating detectors in COSINUS

Speaker: Moritz Kellermann

2022_Moritz_Blois_pdf_v2.pdf

17:55 The CYGNO experiment for directional Dark Matter searches

Speaker: Andrea Messina (Sapienza Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT))

Cygno-messina-Blois2022.pdf

18:15 Recent results on Dark matter and axion-like particle searches

Speaker: Ivana Batković (University of Padova and INFN Padova)

Batkovic.pdf

18:35 Search for Axions on the MINER experiment

Speaker: Rupak Mahapatra (Texas A&M University)

MINER_Axion_Blois_Mahapatra.pdf

MINER_Axion_Blois_Mahapatra.pptx

16:00 → 19:30 Parallel Session Tuesday-Neutrinos

Convener: Sotiris Loucatos (Université Paris-Saclay (FR) and APC)

16:15 Mass spectrum-consistent neutrino decay lifetime constraint

Speaker: Joe Chen (The University of New South Wales)

Blois_2022_J_Chen_export.pdf

16:35 Recent neutrino mass results from the KATRIN experiment

Speaker: Stephanie Hickford

2 HICKFORD-2021-09-slides.pdf

16:55 Observing our Sun with Borexino

Speaker: Ömer Penek (Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH)

3 Penek-Solar_Blois_France_24th_May_2022_vFInal.pdf

17:15 Ptolemy

Speaker: Angelo Esposito

4_Esposito - Blois 2022.pdf

17:35 The recent neutrinoless double beta decay results from KamLAND-Zen 800

Speaker: Spencer Axani (MIT)

5 Rencontres de Blois -- the first results from KLZ800 -- saxani.pdf

17:55 Status of the JUNO experiment and physics potential to detect low-energy neutrinos from the DSNB, the CCSN, the Sun and the inner Earth

Speaker: Frederic Perrot (Université de Bordeaux)

6-RencontresBlois-JUNO-talk-Perrot-final.pdf

18:15 Latest results from MicroBooNE

Speaker: Marianette Wospakrik (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

7 uBooNE_Rencontres_de_Blois_2022_rev.pdf

20:00 → 21:30 Dinner

Wednesday 25 May

08:00 → 12:00 Excursion to Chateau de Chenonceau

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:30 Collider probes of Dark Sectors

14:00 Probes of the Dark sector from the ATLAS and CMS experiments

Speaker: Long Wang (University of Maryland (US))

probe of dark sector.pdf

14:30 Probes of the Dark sector from the Belle II experiment

Speaker: Laura Zani (CPPM - Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille)

zani_darkSectorProbes_belleII_final_v4.pdf

15:00 Probes of the Dark sector from the LHCb experiment

Speaker: Serhii Cholak (EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne (CH))

lhcbDM_Cholak.pdf

15:30 → 16:15 Coffee Break

16:15 → 19:00 Parallel Session Wednesday-Colliders probes

16:15 Phenomenology of the Dark Matter sector in the Two Higgs Doublet Model with Complex Scalar Singlet extension

Speaker: Juhi Dutta

JD.pdf

16:35 Dark Matter searches with the BABAR detector

Speaker: Georges Vasseur

vasseur-blois2022.pdf

16:55 Searches for dark Higgsstrahlung and invisible Z' at Belle II

Speaker: Huw Haigh (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))

haigh.pdf

17:15 Search for invisible decays of the Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector

Speaker: Claudia Merlassino (University of Oxford (GB))

merlassino.pdf

17:35 Searches for dark photons in CMS

Speaker: Simranjit Singh Chhibra (CERN)

20220525_DPwithCMS_Blois2022_schhibra.pdf

17:55 Searches for exotic decays of the Higgs boson as a window to the dark sector with the ATLAS detector

Speaker: Huacheng Cai (University of Pittsburgh (US))

hcai_blois2022.pdf

18:15 Searching for semivisible jets in CMS

Speaker: Thomas Klijnsma (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

klijnsma_semivisible_jets.pdf

18:35 Searches for dark matter with the ATLAS detector

Speaker: Marco Rimoldi (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))

MRimoldi_Talk_Blois_2022.pdf

16:15 → 19:00 Parallel Session Wednesday-Cosmology

Convener: Jacques Dumarchez (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

16:15 Shedding light on the dark Universe with Gamma-Ray Bursts

Speaker: Lorenzo Amati (INAF - OAS Bologna)

01_amati_blois22.pdf

16:35 The string theory swampland in the Euclid, SKA and Vera Rubin observatory era

Speaker: Killian Martineau

Blois-2022-Martineau.pdf

16:55 Generalizing models with variations of the fine-structure constant driven by scalar fields: extended Bekenstein models coupled to the dark sector

Speaker: João Dias

Joao_Dias_BLOIS.pdf

17:15 Simons Observatory

Speaker: Steve Choi (Cornell University)

SChoi_Blois_talk_220525.pdf

17:35 The new measurement of the Hubble Constant from the SH0ES team

Speaker: Louise Breuval (Johns Hopkins University)

Rencontres_de_Blois_Breuval_20220525.pdf

17:55 BICEP/Keck

Speaker: Denis Barkats (Harvard University)

20220525_Barkats_Blois.pdf

18:15 Emulating 2-body decaying dark matter with neural networks and effects on cosmological observables

Speaker: Jozef Bucko (University of Zurich)

bucko.pdf

16:15 → 19:00 Parallel Session Wednesday-Dark Matter

Convener: Gilles Gerbier (Queen's Univesrity)

16:15 DarkSide-20k and the Future Liquid Argon Dark Matter Program

Speaker: Julie Rode (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

DS_RencontresBlois.pdf

16:35 Status of the LUX-ZEPLIN Dark Matter Experiment

Speaker: Jim E Y Dobson

LZStatus_BLOIS2022_JimDobson.pdf

16:55 The DAMIC-M Experiment: Status and First Results

Speaker: Claudia De Dominicis

DeDominicis-DAMICM-Blois.pdf

17:15 Sub-GeV Dark Matter Searches with EDELWEISS: New results

Speaker: Elsa Guy (IP2I Lyon)

GUY_EDW_Blois2022.pdf

17:35 Dark matter search with COSINE-100

Speaker: Young yu Ko (IBS Daejeon)

220525_Blois_COSINE_yjko.pdf

17:55 The TESSERACT Project

Speaker: Daniel Mckinsey

McKinsey_TESSERACT_Blois.pdf

18:15 The NEWSdm experiment for directional dark matter searches

Speaker: Valeri Tioukov (INFN NAPOLI)

2022.05-Blois-V.Tioukov.pdf

20:00 → 22:00 Dinner

20:30 → 22:00 Conférence Grand Public (in french)

Convener: Jean TRAN THANH VAN

20:30 Climat: du diagnostic à l'action - échanger, réfléchir ensemble

Speaker: Jean Jouzel

22:00 → 23:00 Sound and Light Show

Thursday 26 May

09:00 → 10:30 Cosmological connections of neutrinos

Convener: Sotiris Loucatos (Université Paris-Saclay (FR) and APC)

09:00 Massive neutrinos and cosmology

Speaker: Yvonne Wong

YvonneWong.pdf

09:30 Light Sterile Neutrinos

Speaker: Stefano Gariazzo (INFN, Turin)

220526_Blois.pdf

10:00 An overview of Leptogenesis

Speaker: Jessica Turner

Blois_Turner_2022.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:30 Modified Gravity / PBH

Convener: Yann Gouttenoire

11:00 Experimental tests of antigravity

Speaker: Gabriel Chardin (CNRS)

Experimental tests of antigravity Chardin.pdf

11:30 Primordial Black Holes

Speaker: Juan Garcia-Bellido Capdevila (Universidad Autonoma Madrid)

Blois_GarciaBellido.pdf

12:00 Compact objects in gravity theories

Speaker: Christos Charmousis (Paris-Sud University)

06_charmoussis.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:40 Dark energy / Inflation

Convener: Daniel Mckinsey

14:00 Direct tests of dark energy

Speaker: Philippe Brax (CEA)

Brax_blois2022new.pdf

Brax_blois2022new.pptx

14:30 First measurements from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI)

Speaker: Andreu Font-Ribera (Institut de Física d'Altes Energies (IFAE))

DESI_FontRibera.pdf

15:00 A lightning overview of W-boson mass measurements

Speaker: Daniel Froidevaux (CERN)

Blois22_Wmassoverview_260522.pdf

15:40 → 16:10 Coffee Break

16:10 → 18:10 Parallel Session Thursday-ALPS/FIPS/LLP

Convener: Sotiris Loucatos (Université Paris-Saclay (FR) and APC)

16:10 Primordial black holes from supercooled first-order phase transition

Speaker: Yann Gouttenoire

Yann_Gouttenoire.pdf

16:30 The scotogenic model with scalar dark matter connected to Long-lived

Speaker: Ivania Maturana Ávila (Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez)

02_talk_LLP_France.pdf

16:50 Impact of self-scattering on dark matter relic density

Speaker: Andrzej Hryczuk

03_Hryczuk_Blois2022.pdf

17:10 Light dark matter vis-à-vis non-standard mechanisms and its possible probes

Speaker: Sreemanti Chakraborti (Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India)

blois_sc.pdf

16:10 → 18:10 Parallel Session Thursday-Dark Matter

Convener: Corinne AUGIER (IP2I - Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1)

16:10 DEAP-3600

Speaker: Michela Lai (INFN - National Institute for Nuclear Physics)

Last results from DEAP_Michela Lai_compressed.pdf

16:30 Status and first results from XENONnT

Speaker: Sid El Moctar AHMED MAOULOUD

xenon-blois-2022.pdf

16:50 Status of the PICO-40L Bubble Chamber

Speaker: Colin Moore

Moore_Blois.pdf

17:10 Searches for Dark Matter with the ANTARES Neutrino Telescope

Speaker: Adrian Saina

Talk_Blois_ANTARES_Adrian_Saina.pdf

17:30 Precision Predictions for the Migdal Effect

Speaker: Peter Cox (The University of Melbourne)

PeterCox-Blois2022.pdf

20:00 → 23:00 Dinner: Cocktail and Conference Dinner

Friday 27 May

08:30 → 10:00 Cosmology / H0 tension / LSS

Convener: Christophe Grojean (DESY (Hamburg) and Humboldt University (Berlin))

08:30 Probing cosmological inflation

Speaker: Sébastien Renaux-Petel (IAP)

Blois-2022-Renaux-Petel.pdf

09:00 Current status of the H0 tension and suggested solutions

Speaker: Vivian Poulin (LUPM, CNRS, France)

Blois_HubbleTension_Poulin.pdf

09:30 Dark matter searches in the cosmic large-scale structure

Speaker: Keir Rogers (University of Toronto)

DM_LSS_plenary_Blois_2022_Rogers_KK.pdf

10:00 → 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 → 11:15 Summary Talk

Convener: Jean TRAN THANH VAN

Gia_Talk_Blois__Oct_22_21_ccc.pdf

10:30 Perspectives on the Dark Sector: Concluding Remarks

Speaker: Robert Brandenberger (McGill University)

brandenberger.pdf

11:15 → 11:25 Concluding Remarks

11:30 → 13:00 Lunch