Name: UCLA Dark Matter 2023
Start: 2023-03-29T07:15:00-07:00
End: 2023-04-01T15:00:00-07:00
Location: UCLA

UCLA Dark Matter 2023

from Wednesday, March 29, 2023 (7:15 AM) to Saturday, April 1, 2023 (3:00 PM)

Monday, March 27, 2023
Tuesday, March 28, 2023
Wednesday, March 29, 2023

7:15 AM

7:15 AM - 7:45 AM
Room: PAB- 1-425
7:45 AM
7:45 AM - 8:00 AM
Room: PAB- 1-425
Contributions

7:45 AM Welcome from our Department Chair - Stuart Brown (UCLA)

7:50 AM Announcements - Graciela Beatriz Gelmini (University of California Los Angeles (US))
8:00 AM
8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: PAB- 1-425
Contributions

8:00 AM Cosmic Anomalies? - Edward Wright (UCLA)

8:30 AM Dark Energy - Josh Frieman (Fermilab)

9:00 AM Structure Formation in the Universe - Mike Boylan-Kolchin

9:30 AM Dark Matter Searches with Strong Gravitational Lensing - Anna Nierenberg
10:00 AM Coffe Break
Coffe Break
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: PAB- 1-425
10:30 AM
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: PAB- 1-425
Contributions

10:30 AM Dark Matter and Tidal Streams - Jo Bovy

11:00 AM Indirect Dark Matter Detection - Tracy Slatyer

11:30 AM Dark Matter Searches with Neutrino Telescopes - FRANCIS HALZEN

12:00 PM Search for Dark Matter with IACTs and CTA - Elisa Pueschel
12:30 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Room: Faculty Center
1:30 PM
1:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: PAB- 1-425
Contributions

1:30 PM Dark Matter Particle Candidates - Kathryn Zurek (Caltech)

2:00 PM Axions and Axion-Like Particles Dark Matter - Surjeet Rajendran

2:30 PM Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter - George Fuller (UCSD)

3:00 PM Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter - Volodymyr Takhistov

3:30 PM Dark Matter Searches at Accelerators - Jonathan Lee Feng (University of California Irvine (US))
4:00 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: PAB- 1-425
4:30 PM
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: PAB- 1-425
Contributions

4:30 PM Direct Detection with Xenon - Elena Aprile (Columbia U.)

5:00 PM Direct Detection with Argon - Cristiano Galbiati (Princeton University)

5:30 PM Direct Detection Without Noble Gases - Priscilla Cushman

6:00 PM New Ideas for Sub-GeV Dark Matter Direct Detection - Rouven Essig (Stony Brook University)
7:00 PM
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Contributions

7:00 PM Detection of dark matter-baryon matter non-gravitational interaction - Marco Fedi (Ministero dell'Istruzione, Italy)

7:01 PM Developing Qubit-based Detectors for Low-threshold Dark Matter Searches in the LOUD Facility at Fermilab - Ryan Linehan

7:02 PM Toward a Dark Matter Search with Phonon-Mediated MKID Devices at NEXUS - Dylan Temples (Fermilab)

7:03 PM Amplified J-factors in the Galactic Center for velocity-dependent darkmatter annihilation in FIRE simulations - Daniel Mckeown (University of California-Irvine)

7:04 PM Interpretation of modulating amplitude and phase from the DAMA/LIBRA analysis method - Sophia Hollick (Ya)

7:05 PM Primordial Black Hole and Gravitational Wave Production from ALP String-Wall Networks - ANNA SIMPSON (UCLA) Jonah Hyman (UCLA)

7:06 PM Halo-independent analysis of direct DM detection through electron scattering - Muping Chen

7:07 PM Calibrating the DMRadio-50L Detector - Jessica Fry (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

7:08 PM Searching for Dark Matter From The Sun With Ten Years of IceCube Data - Jeffrey Lazar (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

7:09 PM Xenoscope — a full-scale vertical demonstrator for the DARWIN observatory - Laura Baudis

7:10 PM Exploration of Wire-Array Metamaterials for the Plasma Axion Haloscope - Nolan Kowitt (University of California Berkeley)

7:11 PM A mobile neutron spectrometer for the LNGS underground laboratory - Melih Solmaz

7:12 PM Towards Quantum Charge Parity Detectors with meV Resolution for sub-GeV Dark Matter Detection - Karthik Ramanathan

7:13 PM Backgrounds from Frenkel defects in direct detection experiments - Mukul Sholapurkar

7:14 PM Calibrating the Migdal Effect in Semiconductors - Daniel Baxter (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

7:15 PM Low energy calibration and characterization of solid-state dark matter detectors - Kelly Stifter (Fermilab)

7:16 PM Status for COSINE-100 Upgrade and COSINE-200 - Kim Jinyoung

7:17 PM A signal search for the dark axion portal in the NEON experiment - Byoung-cheol KOH

7:18 PM Experimental tests for the fundamental properties of the electron with COSINE-100 - Yujin Lee

7:19 PM DMRadio-50L Experiment Status and Overview - Alexander Friedrich Leder

7:20 PM DMRadio-m3: An Overview - Nicholas M. Rapidis (Stanford University)

7:21 PM Observing gravitational waves at sub-nanohertz frequencies - William De Rocco

7:22 PM Potential for definitive discovery of a 70 GeV dark matter WIMP with only second-order gauge couplings - Roland Allen

7:23 PM Searching for Light Dark Matter with Narrow-gap Semiconductors - the SPLENDOR Experiment - Samuel Watkins (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

7:24 PM Searches of light dark matter and B8 neutrino events at PandaX-4T - Shuaijie Li

7:25 PM The first Stars in the Universe as Dark Matter Laboratories - Cosmin Ilie (Colgate University)

7:26 PM Peering into the Gap: Learning about Dark Matter from the Pair Instability Mass Gap - Joshua Ziegler

7:27 PM Kinetic Simulations of Collisionless Shock Formation in the Dark Sector - Pierce Giffin

7:28 PM Analyzing High-Redshift Galaxy Candidates as Supermassive Dark Star Candidates with JWST Data - Jillian Paulin (Colgate University)

7:29 PM Probing Dark Matter with exoplanets - Caleb Levy

7:30 PM Searching for High-Frequency Gravitational Waves with ABRACADABRA-10cm - Kaliroe Pappas (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Laboratory For Nuclear Science)

7:31 PM 𝑆8 Tension in the Context of Dark Matter-Baryon Scattering - Adam He

7:32 PM Structure Formation and the Global 21-cm Signal in the Presence of Coulomb-like Dark Matter-Baryon Interactions - George Driskell (University of Southern California)

7:33 PM Recent progress on BSM and dark matter searches in CUORE - Rebecca Kowalski

7:34 PM Extremes in Mixing Angle Space: Constraining Sterile Neutrinos for the Next Generation of Searches - Cannon Vogel (UC Irvine) Helena Garcia Escudero (UCI)

7:35 PM Core Collapse in Self-Interacting Dark Matter Halos - Maya Silverman Sophia Gad-Nasr

7:36 PM Corrections to Hawking Radiation from Asteroid Mass Primordial Black Holes: I. Formalism of Dissipative Interactions in Quantum Electrodynamics - Gabriel Vasquez (The Ohio State University)

7:37 PM New technologies for future direct detection LXe TPCs: a large-diameter test platform and hermetic TPC - Adam Brown (University of Freiburg)

7:38 PM Dark matter particle mass and properties from scaling laws in galaxy rotation curves and N-body simulations - Zhijie (Jay) Xu (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
Thursday, March 30, 2023

7:00 AM

7:00 AM - 7:30 AM
Room: PAB- 1-425
7:30 AM
7:30 AM - 9:45 AM
Room: PAB- 1-425
Contributions

7:30 AM DM GHOSts: Anomalous low-mass structures induced by the supersonic relative velocity between dark matter and baryons - Claire Williams (University of California - Los Angeles)

7:45 AM Effect of the Large Magellanic Cloud on dark matter direct detection - Nassim Bozorgnia (University of Alberta)

8:00 AM The Primordial Black Holes Variations - Stefano Profumo

8:15 AM What does cosmology tell us about dark matter mass and interactions? - Vera Gluscevic (University of Southern California)

8:30 AM Self-Interacting Dark Matter and Small-Scale Structure - Hai-Bo Yu (University of California Riverside)

8:45 AM Pushing the Limits of Detectability: Mixed Dark Matter from Strong Gravitational Lenses - Ryan Keeley (UC Merced)

9:00 AM Early Dark Matter-less Star Clusters as tests to ΛCDM - William Lake

9:15 AM Dark Stars in JWST and Roman Space Telescope - Katherine Freese

9:30 AM Velocity-dependent J-factors in FIRE simulations of Milky-Way size galaxies for indirect detection experiments - James Bullock (University of California, Irvine)
9:45 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
9:45 AM - 10:15 AM
Room: PAB- 1-425
10:15 AM
10:15 AM - 12:35 PM
Room: PAB- 1-425
Contributions

10:15 AM Fuzzy dark matter constraints using a single VLBI observation of a gravitationally lensed radio jet - Devon Powell (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics)

10:30 AM Cosmological Simulations with Novel Dark Matter Physics - Ethan Nadler

10:45 AM How could we probe the angular dependence of dark matter self-interactions? - Moritz Fischer (University Observatory Munich)

11:00 AM A Model-Independent Radio Telescope Search for Dark Matter in the S Band - Aya Keller

11:15 AM Galaxies in the Epoch of Reionization in Alternative Dark Matter -- Insights from the Thesan Simulations - Xuejian Shen

11:30 AM Searching for the fundamental nature of dark matter in the cosmic large-scale structure - Keir Rogers

11:45 AM Small-scale clumping of dark matter and the mean free path of ionizing photons at z = 6 - Christopher Cain (University of California, Riverside)

12:00 PM Cosmic-Ray Antinuclei from Dark Matter and the GAPS Experiment - Philip Von Doetinchem (University of Hawaii at Manoa)

12:20 PM The GRAMS (Gamma-Ray and AntiMatter Survey) Project - Tsuguo Aramaki
12:35 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:35 PM - 1:30 PM
Room: Faculty Center
1:30 PM
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: PAB- 1-425
Contributions

1:30 PM Recent dark-sector results from Belle II - Steven Robertson (IPP / University of Alberta)

1:45 PM Recent Results of Dark Sector Searches with the BaBar Experiment - Brian Shuve (Harvey Mudd College)

2:00 PM New Results from the Heavy Photon Search Experiment - Cameron Bravo

2:15 PM First search for inelastic dark matter at the LHC with the CMS detector - Andre Frankenthal (Princeton University (US))

2:30 PM First results of the PADME Experiment and near-term plans - Andre Frankenthal (Princeton University (US))

2:45 PM The FASER experiment - David Casper (UC Irvine)
3:00 PM
3:00 PM - 4:05 PM
Room: PAB- 1-425
Contributions

3:00 PM Astrophysical Constraints on Warm Dark Matter - Kevork N. Abazajian

3:20 PM Search for keV-scale sterile neutrinos with KATRIN/TRISTAN - Andrew Gavin

3:35 PM The HUNTER Sterile Neutrino Search - Paul Hamilton (UCLA)

3:50 PM MAGNETO-ν: Searching for keV sterile neutrino dark matter in 241Pu beta decays - Geon-Bo Kim (LLNL)
4:05 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
4:05 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: PAB- 1-425
4:30 PM
4:30 PM - 7:15 PM
Room: PAB- 1-425
Contributions

4:30 PM Strong Supernova 1987A Constraints on Bosons Decaying to Neutrinos - Edoardo Vitagliano

4:45 PM Cosmology of Axion Rotation - Keisuke Harigaya (University of Chicago)

5:00 PM Dark matter direct detection from single phonons to nuclear recoils - Tongyan Lin

5:15 PM Light thermal dark matter and MeV gamma-ray observation - Shigeki Matsumoto (Kavli IPMU)

5:30 PM New Constraints on Dark Matter, Cosmic Neutrino Profiles, and Neutrino Masses through Gravity and Quantum Sensors - Yu-Dai Tsai (University of California, Irvine)

5:45 PM Axion detection with optomechanical cavities - Clara Murgui

6:00 PM SUSY dark matter: waxing, not waning - Howard Baer

6:15 PM Dark Matter Direct Detection and Collider Search Complementarity - Sven Heinemeyer (CSIC (Madrid, ES))

6:30 PM Spin 3/2 FIMP: direct detection and collider bounds - Francesco Costa

6:45 PM Constraints on Spin dependent and Spin Independent Dark Matter-Electron Scattering - Mukesh Kumar Pandey (National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan)

7:00 PM Experimental signatures for direct, indirect, and collider detection of a 70 GeV dark matter WIMP with precisely-defined second-order gauge couplings - Roland Allen
7:30 PM

7:30 PM - 10:00 PM
Friday, March 31, 2023

7:00 AM

7:00 AM - 7:30 AM
Room: PAB- 1-425
7:30 AM
7:30 AM - 9:45 AM
Room: PAB- 1-425
Contributions

7:30 AM Recent progress and plan of PandaX experiment - Ning Zhou

7:45 AM The NEWS-G light Dark Matter search experiment: Physics results from a 10 day exposure with pure methane gas - Daniel Durnford (University of Alberta)

8:00 AM Recent developments of the PICO dark matter detectors - Colin Moore

8:15 AM Dark Matter search results from the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Experiment - Maria Elena Monzani

8:30 AM XENONnT: first WIMP search results - Luca Grandi (The University of Chicago)

8:45 AM DarkSide-20k: The Next Stage in the Direct Dark Matter Search Using Liquid Argon - Thomas Nathan Thorpe (University of California Los Angeles (US))

9:00 AM Dark matter search in DEAP-3600: results and prospects - Michela Lai

9:15 AM DARWIN and the Future of Liquid Xenon Dark Matter Detectors - Abigail Kopec (UC San Diego)

9:30 AM New constraints on ultra heavy dark matter from the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment - Ibles Olcina Samblas
9:45 AM

9:45 AM - 10:15 AM
Room: PAB- 1-425
10:15 AM
10:15 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: PAB- 1-425
Contributions

10:15 AM Results and perspectives from DAMA/LIBRA - Pierluigi Belli

10:30 AM The SABRE project - Aldo Ianni (INFN LNGS)

10:45 AM ANAIS-112: testing the DAMA/LIBRA signal beyond 3 sigma - Maria Martinez

11:00 AM COSINUS - Progressing towards shedding light on the DAMA/LIBRA claim - Karoline Julia Schaeffner (Max-Planck Institute for Physics)

11:15 AM Dark Matter Direct Detection Searches with COSINE Experiment - Govinda Adhikari (Yale University)

11:30 AM Resolving DAMA - Reina Maruyama

11:45 AM Status and prospects of CDEX experiment - Hau-Bin Li (Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan)
12:00 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Room: Faculty Center
1:00 PM
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: PAB- 1-425
Contributions

1:00 PM The SNOLAB SuperCDMS experiment - Emanuele Michielin

1:15 PM Sub-GeV Dark Matter Searches with EDELWEISS and CRYOSEL - Jules GASCON

1:30 PM Status and first results of the DAMIC-M experiment - Jean-Philippe Zopounidis (Sorbonne University / LPNHE)

1:45 PM Sub-GeV dark matter searches with SENSEI - Kelly Stifter (Fermilab)

2:00 PM The Oscura experiment - Brenda Cervantes

2:15 PM Probing light Dark Matter with the CRESST-III experiment - Paolo Gorla

2:30 PM Search for Solar Boron-8 neutrino and light dark matter with XENON detectors - Fei Gao (Tsinghua University)

2:45 PM EXCESSES in low-mass dark matter and CEvNS experiments - Florian Reindl (Vienna University of Technology (AT))
3:00 PM
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: PAB- 1-425
Contributions

3:00 PM Background Determination for the LUX-ZEPLIN Experiment - Amy Cottle

3:15 PM The XENONnT Neutron Veto - Marco Selvi (INFN Bologna)

3:30 PM Radon mitigation strategies for current and future liquid xenon detectors - Florian Jörg (Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg)

3:45 PM From Photoelectrons to Bytes in DarkSide-20k - Andrea Capra (TRIUMF (CA))

4:00 PM First measurement of discrimination between helium and electron recoils in liquid xenon as a means for detecting sub-GeV dark matter (HydroX) - Scott Haselschwardt

4:15 PM Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detectors for Dark Matter Detection - Matthew Shaw (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
4:30 PM

4:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: PAB- 1-425
5:00 PM
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: PAB- 1-425
Contributions

5:00 PM Migdal Search in LUX-ZEPLIN Dark Matter Experiment - Jeanne Bang (Brown University)

5:15 PM Experimental result on measuring the Migdal effect with neutron-induced nuclear recoils at the keV level in liquid xenon - Jingke Xu (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

5:30 PM Phonon-mediated kinetic inductance detectors for sub-GeV dark matter searches - Osmond Wen

5:45 PM Results from the KDK experiement - Philippe Di Stefano

6:00 PM The innovative Underground Argon Project: the path from procurement to purification for search of Dark Matter - Federico Gabriele (Universita e INFN, Cagliari (IT))

6:15 PM A crystalline xenon TPC to reach the neutrino detection limit - Hao Chen

6:30 PM Update from the Scintillating Bubble Chamber (SBC) Collaboration - Eric Dahl

6:45 PM A Strategy for Low-Mass Dark Matter Searches with Cryogenic Detectors in the SuperCDMS SNOLAB Facility - Sunil Golwala
7:00 PM
7:00 PM - 7:35 PM
Room: PAB- 1-425
Contributions

7:00 PM Directional Dark Matter Detection - Sven Vahsen (University of Hawaii (US))

7:20 PM Directional dark matter detection in diamond: principles and experimental progress - Reza Ebadi
7:35 PM Dinner on your own (explore Westwood area)
Dinner on your own (explore Westwood area)
7:35 PM - 9:05 PM
Room: PAB- 1-425
Saturday, April 1, 2023

7:00 AM

7:00 AM - 7:30 AM
Room: PAB- 1-425
7:30 AM
7:30 AM - 8:15 AM
Room: PAB- 1-425
Contributions

7:30 AM The Snowball Chamber: Supercooled Water for Dark Matter, Neutrinos, and General Particle Detection - Matthew Szydagis

7:45 AM Mineral Detectors for Neutrinos and Dark Matter - Sebastian Baum (Stanford University)

8:00 AM The NOA Facility @ LNGS - Roberto Tartaglia
8:15 AM
8:15 AM - 9:30 AM
Room: PAB- 1-425
Contributions

8:15 AM An overview of Axion Dark Matter eXperiment: current status and future plans - Dan Zhang (University of Washington)

8:30 AM Low Mass Axion Searches from ABRACADABRA Results to the DMRadio Program - Maria Simanovskaia (Stanford University)

8:45 AM Searching for axion-like dark matter with precision NMR: the Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiments - Alexander Sushkov

9:00 AM Dark Matter Axion Search Using 18T High Temperature Superconducting Magnet - JONGHEE YOO (Seoul National University)

9:15 AM MADMAX: post-inflationary axion dark matter search - Chang Lee (Max Planck Society (DE))
9:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: PAB- 1-425
10:00 AM
10:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Room: PAB- 1-425
Contributions

10:00 AM The ORGAN Experiment: Results, Status, and Future Plans - Ben McAllister

10:15 AM Searching for axions with metamaterials: the ALPHA detector - Andrea Gallo Rosso

10:30 AM Probing the axion-photon coupling with the QUAX haloscope - Antonios Gardikiotis (Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany)

10:45 AM The Windchime Project - Rafael Lang

11:00 AM The TESSERACT Project - Bjoern Penning

11:15 AM Progress Toward a Superfluid 4He Detector for Light Dark Matter (HeRALD) - Scott Hertel

11:30 AM Search for dark matter axion with TASEH - Yung-Fu Chen (National Central University)

11:45 AM Broadband Reflector Experiment for Axion Detection (BREAD) - Andrew Sonnenschein (Fermilab)

12:00 PM New Results from HAYSTAC’s Phase II Operation with a Squeezed State Receiver - Michael Jewell (Yale University)
12:15 PM
12:15 PM - 12:45 PM
Room: PAB- 1-425
Contributions

12:15 PM FINAL TALK - Michael Turner

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