12th Symposium on Large TPCs for low-energy rare event detection
L’amphithéâtre Vulpian
Université Paris Cité
The 12th international symposium on “Large TPCs for low-energy rare event detection” will be held in Paris on the 15th-17th of December 2025. The purpose of the meeting is an extensive discussion of present and future projects using a large TPC for low-energy, low-background detection of rare events (low-energy neutrinos, double beta decay, dark matter, solar axions). There is an increasing number of experiments using or planning to use very large gaseous or liquid TPCs. A common feature of the detection scheme will be the measurement of the energy and direction of ion recoils. The search for light dark matter is a new challenge calling for low-energy threshold and light recoiling atoms. New ideas are emerging for detector concepts adapted to physics requirements. The use of gaseous micro-pattern detectors seems to be a promising way to reach this goal. The symposium will be held at Amphitheatre Vulpian, at Université Paris Cité, 12 rue de l'Ecole de Médecine, in the Latin Quarter of Paris. This is very close to Notre Dame de Paris, recently rebuilt after the fire which partially destroyed it in 2019. The physics and the present status of dark matter search, axion search, and neutrino studies will be reviewed together with discussions on evolving technologies relevant to these searches.
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Session I L’amphithéâtre Vulpian
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Université Paris Cité
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Introduction 20mSpeakers: Ioannis Giomataris (Université Paris-Saclay (FR)), Paul Colas (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))
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Direct detection of dark matter 35mSpeaker: David Cerdeño (Institute for Theoretical Physics (IFT-UAM/CSIC))
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Towards the ultimate xenon-based dark matter observatory 20mSpeaker: Prof. Marc Schumann (University of Freiburg (DE))
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R&Ds on charge detection for next generation LXe TPCs for Dark Matter detection 20mSpeakers: Luca Scotto Lavina (CNRS/IN2P3, LPNHE), Luca Scotto Lavina (CNRS), Yajing Xing
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Session II L’amphithéâtre Vulpian
L’amphithéâtre Vulpian
Université Paris Cité
12 rue de l'école de Médecine 75006 Paris-
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Searches for Dark Matter with Noble Liquid TPCs 20mSpeaker: Mr Ako Jamil (Princeton University)
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Low-energy threshold demonstration in TREX-DM 20mSpeaker: Oscar Pérez Lázaro
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DarkSPHERE: Searching for sub-GeV particle dark matter with Spherical Proportional Counters 20mSpeaker: Konstantinos Nikolopoulos (Hamburg University (DE))
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Sensor development for Spherical Proportional Counters 20mSpeaker: Philippe Gros
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Session III L’amphithéâtre Vulpian
L’amphithéâtre Vulpian
Université Paris Cité
12 rue de l'école de Médecine 75006 Paris-
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CYGNO 20mSpeaker: Elisabetta Baracchini (Gran Sasso Science Institute)
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Performance of the Optical-TPC of the MIGDAL experiment 20mSpeaker: Lex Millins (University of Birmingham (GB))
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The ARIADNE+ Detector; bringing novel 3D optical dual-phase LArTPCs to the large scale 20mSpeaker: k Mavrokoridis (University of Liverpool (GB))
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ICARUS 20mSpeaker: Francesco Poppi (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT))
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Session IV L’amphithéâtre Vulpian
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Université Paris Cité
12 rue de l'école de Médecine 75006 Paris-
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Experimental review on neutrino physics and oscillations. 35mSpeaker: Claudio Giganti (LPNHE Paris (IN2P3/CNRS))
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T2K upgrade 20mSpeaker: Samira Hassani (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))
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The Short Baseline Near Detector: status after first year of physics data 20mSpeaker: Miquel Nebot-Guinot
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Session V L’amphithéâtre Vulpian
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Micromegas detectors for the BabyIAXO project 20mSpeaker: Theopisti Dafni (CAPA/Universidad de Zaragoza)
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Next generation axion dark matter experiments in the range 1-10 GHz and 10 - 50 GHz 20mSpeaker: Prof. Yannis Semertzidis (IBS/CAPP and KAIST in Republic of Korea (South Korea))
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Université Paris Cité
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Session VI L’amphithéâtre Vulpian
L’amphithéâtre Vulpian
Université Paris Cité
12 rue de l'école de Médecine 75006 Paris-
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ProtoDUNE HD: Latest test beam results and perspectives 20mSpeaker: Richie Diurba
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ProtoDUNE VD: Latest test beam results and perspectives 20mSpeaker: Yoann Kermaidic (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))
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Dune Far Detector 3 and 4: Current Status 20mSpeaker: Saba Parsa (University of Bern)
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BSM Physics Opportunities with the DUNE TPCs 20mSpeaker: Alexandre Sousa (University of Cincinnati)
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Session VII L’amphithéâtre Vulpian
L’amphithéâtre Vulpian
Université Paris Cité
12 rue de l'école de Médecine 75006 Paris-
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Latest results on neutrinos and supernovae 20mSpeaker: Maria Cristina Volpe
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Near Detector-GAr 20mSpeaker: Francisco Martinez Lopez (Queen Mary University of London (GB))
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GanESS: a Gaseous Time Projection Chamber for Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering 20mSpeaker: Liancheng Ji (Donostia International Physics Center)
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Univeristé Paris Cité
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Session VIII L’amphithéâtre Vulpian
L’amphithéâtre Vulpian
Université Paris Cité
12 rue de l'école de Médecine 75006 Paris-
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High pressure TPC 35mSpeakers: Zhiyong ZHANG (Institute of High Energy Physics, The Chinese Academy of Scienc), Zhiyong Zhang (University of Science and Technology of China (CN))
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Rydberg TPC 20mSpeaker: Georgy Kornakov (Warsaw University of Technology (PL))
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Session IX L’amphithéâtre Vulpian
L’amphithéâtre Vulpian
Université Paris Cité
12 rue de l'école de Médecine 75006 Paris-
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DESI results on dark energy and neutrino masses 20mSpeaker: Eric Armengaud (CEA Saclay)
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nuSCOPE physics and detectors performance 20mSpeaker: Luca Meazza (Universita & INFN, Milano-Bicocca (IT))
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Advancements in PICOSEC Micromegas Detectors for Precise Timing Applications 20mSpeaker: Alexandra Kallitsopoulou (CEA / IRFU / Université Paris-Saclay (FR))
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Q-Pix: Research and Development towards kiloTon scale pixelated liquid argon time projection chambers 20mSpeaker: Jonathan Asaadi (Syracuse University)
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L’amphithéâtre Vulpian
Université Paris Cité
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Session X L’amphithéâtre Vulpian
L’amphithéâtre Vulpian
Université Paris Cité
12 rue de l'école de Médecine 75006 Paris-
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Scaling Up TPCs for Rare Event Searches: Instrumental Effects and Mitigation Strategies 20mSpeaker: Roberto Santorelli (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES))
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An unorthodox approach: Prospect of a ton-Scale Xenon Gas TPC 0νββ Experiment at Atmospheric Pressure 20mSpeaker: Krishan Mistry
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Spectral Components of Argon Light Emission and their Impact on Next-Generation TPCs 20mSpeaker: Guillermo Vera
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