Dark Interactions: Standard Model Measurements and Searches for Dark Sector States (DI2026)

Dark Interactions (DI) is a biennial workshop that brings together world-leading physicists from diverse fields—including particle theorists, experimentalists, cosmologists, and astrophysicists—to discuss recent progress and explore new directions in the search for dark matter and dark sectors. The DI2026 workshop will be hosted at CERN (Switzerland) and will run for five days (Oct 5–9, 2026). The program will feature focused plenary and contributed talks covering topics such as precision measurements and deviations from the Standard Model, theoretical overviews of dark sectors, the current status and future perspectives of collider and non-collider experiments, astrophysical and cosmological probes, implications from the neutrino sector, gravitational probes of dark sectors, and the use of quantum sensors for new physics.

Note: All plenary talks are by invitation only. If you're interested in presenting a contributed talk, please register first and then submit your abstract. All requests for talks are subject to approval by the organizing committee.

The workshop will cover the following topics:

• Precision measurements and deviations from the Standard Model
• Theory overview of dark sectors
• Current status and future perspectives from collider and non-collider experiments
• Astrophysical and cosmological probes of dark sectors Implications from the neutrino sector

• Implications from the neutrino sector

• Gravitational probes of dark sectors
• Quantum sensors for new physics

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