Name: CPAD 2025 at Penn
Start: 2025-10-07T08:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-10-10T13:30:00-04:00
Location: Inn at Penn, University of Pennsylvania

CPAD 2025 at Penn

from Tuesday 7 October 2025 (08:00) to Friday 10 October 2025 (13:30)

Monday 6 October 2025
Tuesday 7 October 2025

08:00 Registration
Registration
08:00 - 09:00

09:00 Introduction
Introduction
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Woodlands AB

10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00

11:00 Agency & International
Agency & International
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Woodlands AB

12:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 16:00
Contributions

14:00 LAr Scintillating Bubble Chambers for Rare Event Searches - Daniel Pyda (Drexel University)

14:20 CrystaLiZe: Towards a neutrino-limited dark matter search with Crystal Xenon - Dan Hunt (University of Texas at Austin)

14:40 Calibrating the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Dark Matter Detector - Jack Genovesi (Pennsylvania State University)

15:00 Calibration and Performance of the ICARUS Detector at Fermilab - Matteo Vicenzi (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

15:20 The Noble Liquid Test Facility at Fermilab - Flor de Maria Blaszczyk (Fermilab)
RDC3
RDC3
14:00 - 16:00
Room: Woodlands AB
Contributions

14:00 Evidence for mitigated thermal stress with interposers in extended thermocycling of ATLAS ITk strip modules - Jesse Liu (New York University)

14:20 Machine-Detector Interface for the MAIA Detector at a 10 TeV Muon Collider - Benjamin John Rosser (University of Chicago (US))

14:40 4D Pixel Detector Demonstrator Project - Timon Heim (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

15:00 α, β pulse shape discrimination in silicon detectors - Louis Varriano (University of Washington)
14:00 - 16:00
Room: Woodlands CD
Contributions

14:00 Development of Iridium Platinum Bilayer-based Athermal Phonon Detectors - Gensheng Wang (Argonne National Laboratory)

14:15 Superconducting Hafnium films for detectors - Kaja Rotermund (LBNL)

14:30 Development of microwave multiplexed readout for athermal phonon TES-based detectors - John Groh (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

15:00 Toward a meV Kinetic Inductance Phonon-Mediated (KIPM) detector for low mass dark matter searches - Junwen Xiong (Caltech)

15:15 Phonon sensitive kinetic inductance device with low-Tc hafnium for light dark matter search - Xinran Li (Lawrence Berkeley national laboratory)

15:30 Radiation-Induced Correlated Events in Layered Superconducting Detectors - Samuel Watkins (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA)

15:45 Enhanced Phonon Collection Efficiency in Aluminum MKIDs with Phonon Reflective Coating - Kungang Li (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)
14:00 - 16:00

16:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:00 - 16:30
16:30
16:30 - 18:30
Contributions

16:30 Properties and mitigation strategies of high-voltage phenomena measured at the Stanford Liquid Xenon High-Voltage Observatory - Lin Si (Stanford University)

16:50 Optimizing Dual-phase LArTPCs for Sub-keV siignals - Shawn Westerdale

17:10 Initial Results of Liquid Argon Doping Studies with TinyTPC - Hannah McCright (University of Maryland, College Park)

17:30 Simulation of Noble Element Detectors with NEST - Kian Trengove (University at Albany, SUNY)
16:30 - 18:30
Contributions

16:30 Power conversion for HEP using piezoelectric elements - Adrian Nikolica (University of Pennsylvania (US))

16:50 CMS HGCAL ECON-D ASIC : Impact of CMOS fabrication process tuning on performance and radiation tolerance - Jim Hirschauer (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

17:10 Functional and Single Event Effects (SEE) Triplication Verification of the ATLAS ITk Strip Tracker HCCStar and AMACStar Front-end ASICs - Paul Keener (University of Pennsylvania (US))

17:30 Amplitude Walk in Fast Timing: The Role of Dual Thresholds - Sebastian White (University of Virginia (US))

17:50 El-Pho: Electro-Photonic Integrated Platform for Near-Sensor Processing in Extreme Environments within the MEERCAT MSRC - Grzegorz Deptuch (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))
16:30 - 18:30
Contributions

16:30 Transmon-based single microwave photon detectors for QCD axion searches in the classical window - Osmond Wen (Stanford University)

16:45 Progress of Qubit-based Sensors for meV Phonon Detection - Brandon Sandoval (Caltech)

17:00 Environmental Engineering of Qubit-Based Detectors - Daniel Molenaar (Illinois Institute of Technology)

17:15 Examining the effect of various radioactive sources on superconducting qubits protected through gap-engineering - Doug Pinckney (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

17:30 Utilizing the Quantum Zeno Effect in superconducting qubit based particle sensors - Olivia Seidel

17:45 Design and Performance of a Cryogenic THz Calibration System for Ultra-Sensitive Detectors - Emily Perry (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL))

18:00 Quantum Charge Sensing with cCPT Amplifiers for Modular Rare-Event Detectors - Caleb Fink (Syracuse University)
16:30 - 18:30

18:30 Reception (snacks)
Reception (snacks)
18:30 - 20:00
Wednesday 8 October 2025

09:00 National Initiatives: AI, QIS, Microelectronics, Penn HEP group
National Initiatives: AI, QIS, Microelectronics, Penn HEP group
09:00 - 10:30

10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 RDC 3&4 Solid State & ASICS
RDC 3&4 Solid State & ASICS
11:00 - 12:40
Room: Woodlands AB
Contributions

11:00 ePIC Silicon Vertex Tracker for the EIC – The Largest MAPS-Based Detector - Grzegorz Deptuch (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

11:20 Measuring Beta Particle Momentum with CMOS Sensors and Scintillating Detectors for Sterile Neutrino Detection - Daniel Kodroff (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)

11:40 Laboratory characterization of ARCADIA MAPS sensors, and status of future developments at Fermilab - Artur Apresyan (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

12:00 Megapixel Monolithic Active Pixel Sensor Prototype with Event-Driven Readout and Pathway to Electro-Photonic Integration - Grzegorz Deptuch (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

12:20 MAPS with improved timing performance for low-duty cycle accelerators - Lorenzo Rota (SLAC National Laboratory)
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 Research and Development efforts towards a Carbon-Fiber Wire Drift Chamber - Caden Glenn (Purdue University (US))

11:20 A straw tracker for FCC-ee experiments - Junjie Zhu (University of Michigan (US))

11:40 A High-Precision, Fast, Robust, and Cost-Effective Muon Detector for the FCC-ee - Jianming Qian (University of Michigan (US))

12:00 Embedded ML Solutions for Real-time Processing in Future Drift Chamber Detectors - Liangyu Wu (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 Geant4 Condensed Matter Physics Simulations of Kinetic Inductance Phonon-Mediated Detectors - Selby Dang (Stanford University/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

11:15 Phonon and Quasiparticle Transport in Superconductors and novel materials - Israel Hernandez (Illinois Institute of Technology)

11:30 Accurate Phonon Transport Across Interfaces in G4CMP for sub-eV Detector Simulations in the BeEST Experiment - Caitlyn Stone-whitehead (Colorado School of Mines)

11:45 Readout and Noise Sensing Schemes for Qubit-Based Detectors - Kester Anyang (Illinois Institute of Technology)

12:00 Event reconstruction analysis on radiation-induced correlated errors in superconducting qubits - Emanuela Celi (Northwestern University)
11:00 - 12:30

12:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 14:00
14:00 RDC 3&4&11 Solid State & ASICS & Fast Timing
RDC 3&4&11 Solid State & ASICS & Fast Timing
14:00 - 16:20
Room: Woodlands AB
Contributions

14:00 ML processing and compression of signal shared AC-LGADs - Samantha Sunnarborg (Brown University)

14:20 Towards 6D Tracking: using fast-timing to determine track position, time, and angles - Victor Turbiner (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

14:40 Development of AC-LGAD Detectors for Electron-Ion Collider - Yu Hu (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

15:00 Performance of AC-LGADs for ePIC and beyond - Simone Michele Mazza (University of California,Santa Cruz (US))

15:20 5D tracking active target development for the PIONEER experiment - Simone Michele Mazza (University of California,Santa Cruz (US))

15:40 Stress Tests on Low Gain Avalanche Diodes and AC-coupled Low Gain Avalanche Diodes - Trevor Russell (Brown University)

16:00 Mortality of ultra-thin LGADs from high energy deposition - Abraham Tishelman-Charny (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))
14:00 - 16:00
14:00 - 16:00
Contributions

14:00 A High-Pressure Gaseous-Argon TPC R&D Effort for Neutrinos and Rare Events: Simulation Studies - Brenna McConnell (Indiana University Bloomington)

14:20 Electronics testing and development for high-pressure argon-based detectors - Francisco Martínez López (Indiana University)

14:40 Triple-GEM Characterization for High-Pressure Gas Argon-Based Operation - Tanaz Mohayai (Indiana University)

15:00 Development of a scaleable 40L gaseous TPC module with micromegas strip readout for directional reconstruction of low-energy nuclear recoils - Michael Litke (University of Hawaii at Manoa)

15:20 Improvements on directional nuclear recoil measurements with BEAST TPCs - Shashank Jayakumar (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa)

15:40 Development of an Ideal Gaseous TPC Detector - Tanner Polischuk (University of Hawaii at Manoa)
14:00 - 16:20
Contributions

14:00 Dual-sided Skipper-CCDs for sub-GeV dark matter searches - Sho Uemura (Fermilab)

14:20 LEGEND: Search for neutrinoless double beta decay in high-purity 76Ge-enriched detectors - Louis Varriano (University of Washington)

14:40 The KIPM Detector Consortium - Dylan Temples (Fermilab)

15:00 SPLENDOR's Modular Detector System Designed for meV Charge Signals with Novel Semiconductors - Caleb Fink (Syracuse University) Jadyn Anczarski (Stanford/SLAC/KIPAC)

15:20 Advancing TES-Based Detectors for Sub-GeV Dark Matter Detection - Aditi Pradeep (SLAC/Stanford)

15:40 Progress of the TESSERACT Dark Matter Experiment - William Matava (University of California at Berkeley)

16:00 Progress on the HeRALD Experiment - Joanna Wuko (UMass Amherst)
16:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:00 - 16:30
16:30 RDC 3&4&11 Solid State & ASICS & Fast Timing
RDC 3&4&11 Solid State & ASICS & Fast Timing
16:30 - 18:50
Room: Woodlands AB
Contributions

16:30 Response of AC-LGADs to Ionizing and Non-ionizing Radiation Damage - Sally Seidel (University of New Mexico (US))

16:50 Optimization of Ultrafast Silicon Detectors for Timing Applications in Future High Luminosity Collider Experiments - Bridget Mack (Syracuse University (US))

17:10 Design and characterization of the FCFD chip for strip AC-LGAD readout - Artur Apresyan (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

17:30 Characterization of Low Gain Avalanche Diodes Using Diverse Particle Beams - Mohamed Hijas Mohamed Farook (University of New Mexico (US))

17:50 Design and characterization of 28nm readout ASICs for 3D-integrated LGAD sensors - Bojan Markovic (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

18:10 Performance of HPSoCv2: measurements on a very high Channel Density Waveform Digitizer with sub-10ps resolution - Luca Macchiarulo (Nalu Scientific, LLC)

18:30 Optical Characterization of Low-Gain Avalanche Diodes - Gabriele Giacomini (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))
16:30 - 18:30
16:30 - 18:50
Contributions

16:30 Ultra-Pure Nickel for Structural Components of Low-Radioactivity Instruments - Tyler Schlieder (Pacific Northwest National Lab)

16:50 Cosmogenic tritium in silicon: measurement, mitigation, and removal - Richard Saldanha

17:10 Measuring the optical scattering in n-type GaAs that could explain its high cryogenic scintillation luminosity - Cecilia Ferrari (MIT)

17:30 Imaging nuclear recoils with light sheet microscopy - Sam Hedges (Virginia Tech)

17:50 Characterizing single-electron backgrounds in Skipper-CCDs - Yikai Wu (Stony Brook University)

18:10 Development of Carbon-based Dark Matter Detectors with Magnetic Phonon Sensors - Geon-Bo Kim (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
16:30 - 18:30
Contributions

16:30 A quantum-enhanced two-cavity Haloscope for high-mass QCD axion detection - Christian Boutan (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

16:45 Axion Search with HAYSTAC Phase III Multi-Rod Cavity Upgrade - Claire Laffan (Yale University)

17:00 A Dark Photon Dark Matter Search with a Widely-Tunable SRF Cavity - Raphael Cervantes

17:30 The QUAntum LImited PHotons In the Dark Experiment - Ritoban Basu Thakur

17:45 Searching for Axions with Magnetic Resonance Force Microscopes - Muhammad Hani Zaheer (University of Delaware)
18:30 (snacks)
(snacks)
18:30 - 20:00
Contributions

18:30 Network intelligence for fault tolerance and data load balancing - Maurice Garcia-Sciveres (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))
Thursday 9 October 2025

09:00 Early career
Early career
09:00 - 10:30

10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 RDC 1&2&7 Noble & Photo & Low background
RDC 1&2&7 Noble & Photo & Low background
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Woodlands AB
Contributions

11:00 Development of pTP Coatings for Wavelength Shifter with Industrial Scale in LAr Detectors - Yichen Li

11:20 Quartz fluorescence backgrounds in liquid xenon TPCs - Peter Sorensen (LBL / Berkeley Lab)

11:40 Testing of the CRYO ASIC for in-liquid-xenon ionization readout - Brian Lenardo (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

12:00 Development of an Ultrasensitive ICP-MS Assay Method for the Determination of Uranium, Thorium and Potassium in Gadolinium Used in Scintillator Materials - Isaac Arnquist (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 Thin Film Detectors - Jessica Metcalfe (Argonne National Laboratory (US))

11:20 InAs/GaAs Semiconductor Quantum Dot Scintillation Detector: Real and Projected Performance for 4D Tracking - Michael Hedges (Fermilab)

11:40 Radiation-Hard Ga₂O₃ Solid-State Detectors for Extreme Environments in High-Energy Physics - Ge Yang (Department of Nuclear Engineering, North Carolina State University)

12:00 Time Resolution Studies of 4H-SiC LGADs for Fast Timing Applications - Tao Yang (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
11:00 - 12:40
Contributions

11:00 The Analog Photon Processor ASIC - Adrian Nikolica (University of Pennsylvania (US))

11:20 Possible new iterations of the VMM chip for MPGD readout - Gianluigi De Geronimo (University of Michigan, Stony Brook University, dgcircuits.com)

11:40 Modern Electronics Education with AI/ML and FPGA - Keisuke Yoshihara (University of Hawaii at Manoa)

12:00 A Smart Readout ASIC with Digital Signal Processing and Machine Learning Integrated into the Front-End - Prashansa Mukim (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

12:20 Smartpixels: Developing ASICs for high-energy particle detectors with on-chip neural networks in 28 nm CMOS - Danush Shekar (University of Illinois Chicago (US))
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 Development of Thin Gap GEM-μRWELL Hybrid Detectors at Jefferson Lab - Kondo Gnanvo (Southeastern Universities Research Association, Inc. (US))

11:20 Plans for EIC generic R&D based on MPGD technology - Sourav Tarafdar (Jefferson Lab)

11:40 Design and production of GEM modules for the MOLLER experiment - James Shirk (Stony Brook University)

12:00 Large-area MPGDs for Physics Experiments at Jefferson Lab - Huong Nguyen (University of Virginia)
12:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 14:00
14:00 RDC 4&5 ASICS & TDAQ
RDC 4&5 ASICS & TDAQ
14:00 - 16:00
Room: Woodlands CD
Contributions

14:00 Aligning data to better than one picosecond. - Roger Rusack (University of Minnesota (US))

14:20 Generic Hardware Platform for future high-bandwidth detector readout - Shaochun Tang (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

14:40 High Speed DAQ Solution for Small-scale Particle Physics Experiment - Pranava Surukuchi Yuvaraj Elangovan (University of Pittsburgh (US))

15:00 SparsePixels: Efficient Convolution for Sparse Data on FPGAs - Ho Fung Tsoi (University of Pennsylvania (US))

15:20 On-sensor regression of particle kinematics - Jennet Elizabeth Dickinson (Cornell University (US))

15:40 PQuant: Streamlining ML Model Compression to Deployment for Next-Gen Detector Systems - Arghya Ranjan Das (Purdue University (US))
RDC 7&8 Low background & Quantum
RDC 7&8 Low background & Quantum
14:00 - 16:00
Room: Woodlands AB
Contributions

14:00 Toward a general-purpose ultra-low-external interference quantum device holder - Yen-Yung Chang (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley)

14:20 Calibrating Interactions in Low-Threshold, Phonon-Mediated Qubit Detectors - Grace Bratrud (Northwestern University)

14:40 Effect of Defect Formation on Low-Threshold Detector Physics - Nader Mirabolfathi (Texas A&M University)

15:00 Stored energy releases: material problem in dark matter search and quantum computing - sergey pereverzev (LLNL)

15:20 Suppressing high energy events in superconducting devices in a shallow underground laboratory - Jacob Bargemann (Pacific Northwest National Lab)

15:40 Understanding the Origin of Non-Ionizing Phonon Bursts seen in Phonon Calorimeters and Superconducting QUBITs. - Matt Pyle (University of California Berkeley)
14:00 - 16:00
Contributions

14:00 Relieving Thermal Stress in ATLAS ITk Strip Modules - Anne Winifred Fortman (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

14:20 Temperature dependent thermal conductivity measurements and their effects on the thermal management predictions for Silicon Detector Support Structures - Pau Simpson

14:40 Global Mechanics Challenges for Materials and Structures in Future Collider Detectors - Giorgio Vallone (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

15:00 Production of Vessel and Mirrors for the pfRICH Detector at the EIC - Charles Joseph Naim (Stony Brook University (CFNS))
14:00 - 16:00
Contributions

14:00 High performance RICH detector concept with HRPPD sensors for EIC Generic R&D - Laura Brittany Havener (Yale University (US))
16:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:00 - 16:30

16:30

16:30 - 18:00
Room: Room 603 (Sixth floor)
16:30 - 18:05
Contributions

16:30 LArPix Pixelated Charge Readout System - Brooke Russell (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

16:45 A readout ASIC on CMOS 28 nm for SiPM/PMT readout at cryogenic temperatures - Llorenc Fanals-i-Batllori

17:00 Q-Pix: Pixelated Charge Readout Design, Prototyping, & Simulation - Kalindi Gosine (University of Texas at Arlington)

17:15 Cryogenic Testing of CRYO ASIC for Photon Readout - Liang Yang (UC San Diego)

17:30 Cryogenic Modeling of Open-Source Skywater 130nm Process Design Kit at 77K for High Energy Physics - Faith Beall (The University of Texas at Arlington)

17:45 Development of a 28 nm Cryogenic PDK for Next-Generation HEP Detectors - Brian Lenardo
16:30 - 18:00
Contributions

16:30 High Energy Particle Detection with Large Area Superconducting Microwire Array - Christina Wenlu Wang (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

16:45 Investigation of Low-Energy Event Detection through Meissner Screening probed by a Superconductor–NV Center ensemble - Pratyanik Sau (University of Texas at Arlington)

17:00 Towards long-distance phase coherence for large-area quantum sensors. - Andrew Cameron (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

17:30 On-Sky Demonstration of a Superconducting Filter Bank Spectrometer on SPT-SLIM - Cyndia Yu (UChicago/ANL)

17:45 The SuperCDMS-HVeV Program: Results and New Directions - Enectali Figueroa-Feliciano (Northwestern University)
18:30 Banquet
Banquet
18:30 - 20:30
Friday 10 October 2025

08:25 High Priority Big Projects: US Higgs Factory, US Muon Collider, DUNE Phase II, EIC, Facility status and needs
High Priority Big Projects: US Higgs Factory, US Muon Collider, DUNE Phase II, EIC, Facility status and needs
08:25 - 10:30

10:30 Coffee break and morning snack
Coffee break and morning snack
10:30 - 11:00

11:00 RDC Highlights, Award ceremony [DPF instrumentation senior & early career, Graduate instrumentation Award, Poster prizes], Closeout!
RDC Highlights, Award ceremony [DPF instrumentation senior & early career, Graduate instrumentation Award, Poster prizes], Closeout!
11:00 - 13:30

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