DRD5 Collaboration meeting

from Thursday, 30 October 2025 (09:00) to Friday, 31 October 2025 (18:00)
CERN (503/1-001)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
30 Oct 2025
31 Oct 2025
AM
09:00 Welcome & update on DRD5 issues - Michael Doser (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))  
09:10
WP-2 (until 11:00)
09:10 WP-2: quick introduction - Christophe Dujardin Anna Paola Caricato  
09:15 Unicorn project: development of nanocomposites - Sergio Brovelli  
09:35 Contribution 1: Primer: QD's (colloidal, solid state, ...) - Rosana Turtos  
09:55 Contribution 2: Beam test results with QD's - Anne-Mazarine Lyon (CERN)  
10:15 Contribution 3: QD's in calorimetry and beyond - Yacine Haddad (Universitaet Bern (CH))  
10:35 Contribution 4: Characterization of stability and radiation hardness of quantum dots - Tribikram Choudhury (Institute of Engineering and Management (IN)) Rajdeep Mohan Chatterjee (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (IN))  
11:00 --- Coffee Break ---
11:20
WP-3 (until 13:00)
11:20 WP-3: overview - Andrea Giachero Dr Loredana Gastaldo (Kirchhoff Institute for Physics, Heidelberg University)  
11:40 Contribution 2: Beam tests results with SNSPD's - Adi Bornheim (California Institute of Technology (US)) Boris Alexander Korzh (Universite de Geneve (CH))  
12:00 Contribution 3: TES development at IHEP - Daikang Yan (IHEP, China)  
12:20 Contribution 1: Primer: TES, MMC, limitations - Prof. Sebastian Kempf  
12:45 Contribution 4  
09:00
WP-4 (until 10:40) (6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin)
09:00 WP-4: Overview - Sofia Qvarfort  
09:20 Contribution 1: Quantum sensing with motional states of trapped ions - Gabriel Araneda  
09:40 Contribution 2: Spins as detectors - Itay Bloch  
10:00 Contribution 3: Defect-based method for dark matter detection in silicon - Evangelos Leonidas Gkougkousis Dr Vagelis Gkougkousis (University of Zurich)  
10:40 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00
WP-5 (and WP-4) (until 13:10) (6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin)
11:00 WP-5: Overview - Dr Yevgeny Stadnik (The University of Sydney) Yevgeny Stadnik (The University of Sydney) Alberto Marino (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)  
11:20 Contribution 1: Primer: optomechanical systems - Andrew Geraci  
11:50 Contribution 2: Optimising magnetic resonance force microscopes for dark matter detection - Hani Zaheer  
12:10 Contribution 3: At the edge of perception: a new world visible through quantum sensing - Chelsea Bartram (Boston University) Chelsea Bartram Chelsea Bartram Chelsea Bartram (SLAC) Chelsea Bartram (UNC Chapel Hill)  
12:30 Contribution 4: Tweezer arrays of nanoparticles for nuclear and particle physics - David Moore (Stanford University) David Moore (Yale University)  
12:50 Contribution 5: Quantum Enhanced Impulse Measurements with Mechanical Sensors in the Search for Dark Matter - Sohitri Ghosh  
PM
13:00 --- Break ---
14:00
WP-1 (until 15:40)
14:00 WP-1: overview - Elina Fuchs David Hume (NIST)  
14:20 Contribution 1: "searching for new physics with exotic atoms and cryogenic detectors" - Ben Ohayon (Technion IIT) Ben Ohayon (Racah Institute of Physics)  
14:40 Contribution 2: Primer on atomic interferometers - Dr Charles Baynham  
15:00 Contribution 3: Primer on timing / frequency networks - Marco Pizzocaro  
15:20 Contribution 4  
15:40 --- Coffee Break ---
13:10 --- Break ---
14:10
WP-6 (until 16:00) (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
14:10 WP-6: Overview - Rajdeep Mohan Chatterjee (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (IN)) Georgy Kornakov (Warsaw University of Technology (PL))  
14:30 Contribution 1: summary of 1st infrastructure workshop (cryogenic beam test) - Maurizio Pierini (CERN)  
14:50 Contribution 2: COST action as an example for funds for networking - Georgy Kornakov (Warsaw University of Technology (PL))  
15:10 Contribution 3: Facilities overview - Michael Doser (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))  
15:30 Contribution 4: DRD5 dissemination, education, schools - Georgy Kornakov (Warsaw University of Technology (PL))  
16:00 --- Coffee Break ---
16:20
Discussions (until 17:20) (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)