1st bulletin (2025 Oct. 1st)
Dear Colleagues,
It is a great honor to announce that the 9th edition of the international CYGNUS Workshop on Directional Recoil Detection will take place in Kobe (Japan) from 23rd to 25th February 2026.
The aim of the 9th CYGNUS workshop is to bring together experimentalists and theorists interested in developing detectors with the capability of detecting the directions of recoiling particles, especially for low-energy applications. The scientific scope of the workshop is broad and will cover applications from across particle physics, astroparticle physics, and nuclear physics. Some of the specific topics that will be captured by the workshop include:
• Directional detection of dark matter
• Directional neutrino detection
• Directional neutron detection
• R&Ds and applications of Gas TPCs, MPGDs, and their readout electronics
• Novel directional detection technologies
• Recoil simulation tools
• Detection of rare nuclear decays
The programme will consist of three days of keynote and contributed talks. All days will be scheduled into plenary (rather than parallel) sessions, and time will be devoted to allow for extended discussions. Abstract submission is open now.
The workshop is held at Kobe University Integrated Research Center, 7 Chome-1-48 Minatojima Minamimachi, Chuo Ward, Kobe, Hyogo 650-0047, Japan. Daily on-site lunches and coffee breaks, and a conference dinner will foster opportunities for informal interaction and scientific exchange. The Workshop is organized by the Faculty of Science, Kobe University.
For any questions, please
contact the organizers at cygnus2026-loc@cern.ch
We look forward to welcoming you to Kobe.
On behalf of the Local Organizing Committee,
Satoshi Higashino
Chair of 9th CYGNUS workshop
-Important dates:
2025/10/1 WEB page open, abstract submission starts
2025/12/8 abstract submission deadline
2026/1/23 registration with workshop dinner close
2026/2/23-25 workshop
- Local organising committee
Satoshi Higashino (Kobe University) chair
Kentaro Miuchi (Kobe University) co-chair
Junpei Maeda (Kobe University)
Hiroshi Itoh (Kobe University)
Tatsuhiro Naka (Toho University)
Hiroyuki Sekiya (University of Tokyo)
Masashi Yoshida (University of Tokyo)
Kiseki Nakamura (Tohoku University)
Keishi Hosokawa (Tohoku University)
Masatoshi Kobayashi (Nagoya University)
Takuya Shiraishi (Kanagawa University)
Keiko Nagao (Okayama University of Science)
- International advisory committee
James Battat (Wellesley College)
Elisabetta Baracchini (GSSI)
Phillip Barbeau (Duke University)
David Caratelli (UCSB)
Paolo Gondolo (University Utah)
Elena Gramellini (Manchester University)
Greg Lane (The Australian National University)
Dinesh Loomba (University of New Mexico)
Katie Mack (Perimeter Institute)
Kentaro Miuchi (Kobe University)
Ciaran O'Hare (University of Sydney)
Daniel Santos (LPSC (Grenoble-Alpes University/ CNRS-IN2P3))
Kate Scholberg (Duke University)
Neil Spooner (Sheffield University)
Louis Strigari (Texas A&M University)
Tom Thorpe (LANL)
Sven Vahsen (University of Hawaii)
