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)
Université Paris Cité (L’amphithéâtre Vulpian)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
15 Dec 2025
16 Dec 2025
17 Dec 2025
AM
09:30
Welcome coffee and registration (until 10:30)
10:30
Session I (until 12:30)
10:30 Introduction - Paul Colas (Université Paris-Saclay (FR)) Ioannis Giomataris (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 - Prof. 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  
09:00
Session IV (until 10:30)
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 ---
11:00
Session V (until 12:30)
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 - Prof. Yannis Semertzidis (IBS/CAPP and KAIST in Republic of Korea (South Korea))  
09:00
Session VIII (until 10:30)
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 ---
11:00
Session IX (until 12:40)
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)  
PM
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:30
Session II (until 16:10)
14:30 Searches for Dark Matter with Noble Liquid TPCs - Mr 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 ---
16:40
Session III (until 19:05)
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))  
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:30
Session VI (until 16:10)
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 ---
16:40
Session VII (until 17:50)
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 (until 19:45)
12:40 --- Lunch ---
14:30
Session X (until 15:45)
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 ---