Ultraheavy Dark Matter and Neutrinos from Muon Pair Production

• Dan Hooper (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

The CCD program for rare-event searches

• Ana Martina Botti (Fermilab)

Solving the Fundamental Challenges of meV-GeV Dark Matter Searches with Calorimeters

• Matt Pyle (Berkeley)

The Role of Molecules in the Search for Dark Matter.

• Carlos Blanco

A Moving Target: Direct Detection in the Light DM Landscape

• Robert McGehee (University of Minnesota)

Breathing new life into 131 GeV scattering targets

• Peter Sorensen (LBL / Berkeley Lab)

The SuperCDMS SNOLAB Experiment and Beyond

• Enectali Figueroa-Feliciano (Northwestern University)

Probing benchmark models of hidden-sector dark matter with DAMIC-M

• Danielle Norcini (Johns Hopkins University)

Direct Detection With Magnons

• Tanner Trickle

To directly detect dark matter significantly lighter than a GeV, experiments must utilize the sub-eV energy excitations in condensed matter systems. Phonons, collective excitations of lattice vibrations, naturally have energies in the 1-100 meV range and are promising targets for spin-independent dark matter interactions. However, their response is generally suppressed for spin-dependent dark matter couplings. In such cases, magnons, collective excitations of spin waves, offer a more favorable detection pathway, exhibiting similar kinematic properties to phonons but enhanced sensitivity to spin-dependent interactions. In this talk we'll discuss calculating the dark matter-magnon scattering rate from both a first-principles approach and a data-driven approach using neutron scattering data collected with the MAPS spectrometer at the ISIS Neutron and Muon Source. Additionally, we'll explore how magnons can also be used to search for electron-coupled axion dark matter.

Cosmic Stability of Dark Matter from Pauli Blocking

• Brian Thomas Batell

Dark QCD: the Next Frontier in Dark Matter

• Kevin Pedro (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

There has been a surge of interest in hidden valley models with new, strong forces, sometimes called "dark QCD". These models propose asymmetric, composite dark matter in the form of "dark hadrons" that would evade direct and indirect bounds as well as typical collider DM searches for large missing transverse momentum accompanied by radiation. However, evidence of these models can still be found in collider datasets by targeting their unique phenomenological signatures, which include semivisible jets, emerging jets, and soft unclustered energy patterns. We will present the latest experimental results for these signatures and discuss the significant strides in exploring the vast space of dark QCD models. We will further discuss the prospects for dramatic expansions in sensitivity via machine learning.

Dark Sector Searches at Fixed (Thin) Target Experiments

• Lauren Alexandra Tompkins (Stanford University (US))

Searches for Dark Sector Particles at CMS and SpinQuest/DarkQuest

• David Sperka (Boston University (US))

Gravitational Wave and Ultralight Dark Matter Detection with Binary Resonances

• Josh Foster (Fermilab)

Finding the Unknown

• Dan Hayden

Using Ancient Rocks to Look for Neutrinos and Dark Matter

• Joshua Spitz (University of Michigan)

Observing Dark Matter Decays to Gravitons via Graviton-Photon Conversion

• Gordan Krnjaic (Fermilab)

Searching for millicharged particles from the LHC to LANL

• Matthew Daniel Citron (University of California Davis (US))

Higgs and Flavor Physics, and Quantum Entanglement

• Carlos E.M. Wagner

Dark Matter Direct Detection with Xenon

• Scott Kravitz (University of Texas at Austin)

Progress on liquid-noble bubble chambers: The SBC-LAr10 detector at Fermilab

• Eric Dahl

Qubit sensors with meV resolution for rare-event searches

• Karthik Ramanathan

Superradiant interactions of cosmic noise

• Asimina Arvanitaki (Perimeter Institute)