DMUK meeting at Birmingham

Thursday, May 5, 2022 - 9:00 AM


        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
May 5, 2022
AM
9:00 AM --- Arrivial period - coffee will be served ---
10:00 AM
Session 1 - Ioannis Katsioulas (University of Birmingham) (until 12:00 PM) ()
10:00 AM Introduction - Christopher McCabe (King's College London)   ()
10:10 AM Status and Plans for Dark Matter work at Boulby underground Laboratory. - Sean Paling   ()
10:30 AM Neutron spectroscopy with Spherical Proportional Counters in Boulby - Ioannis Manthos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) Ioannis Manthos Ioannis Manthos (University of Birmingham (GB))   ()
10:50 AM Muon-induced background in a next-generation dark matter experiment based on liquid xenon - Vitaly Kudryavtsev   ()
11:10 AM When the Evaporation of Primordial Black Holes Messes Up with Dark Matter Production - Lucien Heurtier (IPPP, Durham, England)   ()
11:30 AM Design of a compact SiPM array for the Xenia detector - Andrew Stevens (Imperial College London)   ()
11:45 AM Intergalactic Dark Matter - Paul Frampton (University of Salento)   ()
PM
12:00 PM --- Lunch ---
1:00 PM
Session 1 - Christopher McCabe (King's College London) (until 2:50 PM) ()
1:00 PM FlameNEST: Explicit Profile Likelihoods with the Noble Element Simulation Technique - Robert James (UCL)   ()
1:20 PM SAMBA: A cross-platform DAQ software for rare-event searches - Mark William Slater (University of Birmingham (GB))   ()
1:35 PM Searching for dilaton fields in the Ly$\alpha$ forest - Louis Hamaide   ()
1:50 PM DM searches in colliders - James Frost (University of Oxford (GB))   ()
2:10 PM Status of the MIGDAL experiment - Tom Neep (University of Birmingham (GB))   ()
2:30 PM Progress report on the QSHS hidden sector dark matter project - Ian Bailey (Lancaster University / Cockcroft Institute of Accelerator Science and Technology)   ()
2:50 PM --- Coffee break ---
3:30 PM
Session 1 - Konstantinos Nikolopoulos (University of Birmingham (GB)) (until 5:00 PM) ()
3:30 PM Status of the DarkSide-20k experiment - Daria Santone (Royal Holloway, University of London)   ()
3:50 PM Status of the NEWS-G experiment - Patrick Ryan Knights (University of Birmingham (GB))   ()
4:10 PM Status of the LZ experiment - Sally Shaw (UCSB)   ()
4:30 PM Quantum-enhanced interferometry for axion searches - Denis Martynov (University of Birmingham)   ()
4:45 PM QSNET project: A network of clocks for measuring the stability of fundamental constants - Leonid Prokhorov (University of Birmingham)   ()