Name: 12th Symposium on Large TPCs for low-energy rare event detection
Start: 2025-12-15T08:30:00+01:00
End: 2025-12-17T17:15:00+01:00
Location: Université Paris Cité

12th Symposium on Large TPCs for low-energy rare event detection

from Monday, 15 December 2025 (08:30) to Wednesday, 17 December 2025 (17:15)

Monday, 15 December 2025

09:30 Welcome coffee and registration

09:30 - 10:30
Room: L’amphithéâtre Vulpian
10:30 Session I
10:30 - 12:30
Room: L’amphithéâtre Vulpian
Contributions

10:30 Introduction - Ioannis Giomataris (Université Paris-Saclay (FR)) Paul Colas (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))

11:00 Direct detection of dark matter - David Cerdeño (Institute for Theoretical Physics (IFT-UAM/CSIC))

11:40 Towards the ultimate xenon-based dark matter observatory - Marc Schumann (University of Freiburg (DE))

12:05 R&Ds on charge detection for next generation LXe TPCs for Dark Matter detection - Luca Scotto Lavina (CNRS/IN2P3, LPNHE) Luca Scotto Lavina (CNRS) Yajing Xing
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:30
Room: L’amphithéâtre Vulpian
14:30 Session II
14:30 - 16:10
Room: L’amphithéâtre Vulpian
Contributions

14:30 Searches for Dark Matter with Noble Liquid TPCs - Ako Jamil (Princeton University)

14:55 Low-energy threshold demonstration in TREX-DM - Oscar Pérez Lázaro

15:20 DarkSPHERE: Searching for sub-GeV particle dark matter with Spherical Proportional Counters - Konstantinos Nikolopoulos (Hamburg University (DE))

15:45 Sensor development for Spherical Proportional Counters - Philippe Gros
16:10 Coffee
Coffee
16:10 - 16:40
Room: L’amphithéâtre Vulpian
16:40 Session III
16:40 - 19:05
Room: L’amphithéâtre Vulpian
Contributions

16:40 CYGNO - Elisabetta Baracchini (Gran Sasso Science Institute)

17:05 Performance of the Optical-TPC of the MIGDAL experiment - Lex Millins (University of Birmingham (GB))

17:30 The ARIADNE+ Detector; bringing novel 3D optical dual-phase LArTPCs to the large scale - k Mavrokoridis (University of Liverpool (GB))

17:55 ICARUS - Francesco Poppi (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT))
Tuesday, 16 December 2025
09:00 Session IV
09:00 - 10:30
Room: L’amphithéâtre Vulpian
Contributions

09:00 Experimental review on neutrino physics and oscillations. - Claudio Giganti (LPNHE Paris (IN2P3/CNRS))

09:40 T2K upgrade - Samira Hassani (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))

10:05 The Short Baseline Near Detector: status after first year of physics data - Miquel Nebot-Guinot
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: L’amphithéâtre Vulpian
11:00 Session V
11:00 - 12:30
Room: L’amphithéâtre Vulpian
Contributions

11:00 Highlights on axions - Raffaele-Tito D'Aggnolo

11:40 Micromegas detectors for the BabyIAXO project - Theopisti Dafni (CAPA/Universidad de Zaragoza)

12:05 Next generation axion dark matter experiments in the range 1-10 GHz and 10 - 50 GHz - Yannis Semertzidis (IBS/CAPP and KAIST in Republic of Korea (South Korea))
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:30
Room: L’amphithéâtre Vulpian
14:30 Session VI
14:30 - 16:10
Room: L’amphithéâtre Vulpian
Contributions

14:30 ProtoDUNE HD: Latest test beam results and perspectives - Richie Diurba

14:55 ProtoDUNE VD: Latest test beam results and perspectives - Yoann Kermaidic (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))

15:20 Dune Far Detector 3 and 4: Current Status - Saba Parsa (University of Bern)

15:45 BSM Physics Opportunities with the DUNE TPCs - Alexandre Sousa (University of Cincinnati)
16:10 Coffee
Coffee
16:10 - 16:40
Room: L’amphithéâtre Vulpian
16:40 Session VII
16:40 - 17:50
Room: L’amphithéâtre Vulpian
Contributions

16:40 Latest results on neutrinos and supernovae - Maria Cristina Volpe

17:05 Near Detector-GAr - Francisco Martinez Lopez (Queen Mary University of London (GB))

17:30 GanESS: a Gaseous Time Projection Chamber for Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering - Liancheng Ji (Donostia International Physics Center)
18:30 Cocktail/Dinner

18:30 - 19:45
Room: Galerie Saint Germain
Wednesday, 17 December 2025
09:00 Session VIII
09:00 - 10:30
Room: L’amphithéâtre Vulpian
Contributions

09:00 High pressure TPC - Zhiyong ZHANG (Institute of High Energy Physics, The Chinese Academy of Scienc) Zhiyong Zhang (University of Science and Technology of China (CN))

09:40 Barium tagging in NEXT - Mikel Elorza

10:05 Rydberg TPC - Georgy Kornakov (Warsaw University of Technology (PL))
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: L’amphithéâtre Vulpian
11:00 Session IX
11:00 - 12:40
Room: L’amphithéâtre Vulpian
Contributions

11:00 DESI results on dark energy and neutrino masses - Eric Armengaud (CEA Saclay)

11:25 nuSCOPE physics and detectors performance - Luca Meazza (Universita & INFN, Milano-Bicocca (IT))

11:50 Advancements in PICOSEC Micromegas Detectors for Precise Timing Applications - Alexandra Kallitsopoulou (CEA / IRFU / Université Paris-Saclay (FR))

12:15 Q-Pix: Research and Development towards kiloTon scale pixelated liquid argon time projection chambers - Jonathan Asaadi (Syracuse University)
12:40 Lunch
Lunch
12:40 - 14:30
Room: L’amphithéâtre Vulpian
14:30 Session X
14:30 - 15:45
Room: L’amphithéâtre Vulpian
Contributions

14:30 Scaling Up TPCs for Rare Event Searches: Instrumental Effects and Mitigation Strategies - Roberto Santorelli (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES))

14:55 An unorthodox approach: Prospect of a ton-Scale Xenon Gas TPC 0νββ Experiment at Atmospheric Pressure - Krishan Mistry

15:20 Spectral Components of Argon Light Emission and their Impact on Next-Generation TPCs - Guillermo Vera
15:45 Bye-Bye Coffee
Bye-Bye Coffee
15:45 - 16:15
Room: L’amphithéâtre Vulpian