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Sergio Calatroni (CERN)16/06/2026, 10:00Oral contribution
AICE: A long-baseline atom interferometry facility at CERN
The Atom Interferometer CERN Experiment (AICE) is a proposed long-baseline quantum sensing facility to be installed in the PX46 support shaft at CERN’s LHC Point 4. The project builds on a growing international programme of national pathfinder experiments in atom interferometry, including AION in the UK, MAGIS-100 in the US, VLBAI...
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Chiara Arcangeletti (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)16/06/2026, 10:20Oral contribution
The PADME experiment at the Frascati National Laboratory of INFN has performed a
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search for the hypothetical X17 particle, by observing the product of the collisions
of the positron beam from the BTF facility of LNF on a diamond fixed target.
The beam energy has been varied in the range
265–300 MeV, corresponding to values of √s between 16.4 and 17.5 MeV,
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Dr Luca Marsicano (INFN e Universita Genova (IT))16/06/2026, 10:40Oral contribution
The light dark matter (LDM) hypothesis provides a compelling framework in which dark matter consists of sub-GeV particles interacting with Standard Model states via a new feebly coupled mediator, such as a dark photon.
The NA64 experiment at CERN’s SPS is specifically designed to probe this scenario through a broad fixed-target program based on missing-energy and missing-momentum...
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VIRGINIA MAZZA (INFN Bologna)16/06/2026, 14:00Oral contribution
XENONnT is the latest detector of the XENON program for the direct detection of dark matter, currently operating at the INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso. It employs a dual-phase liquid xenon time projection chamber with a 5.9-tonne active target, achieving extremely low background levels and a low energy threshold, making it highly sensitive to rare interactions.
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Eleonora Rebecca Cipelli (Max Planck Society (DE))16/06/2026, 14:20Oral contribution
The Cryogenic Rare Event Search with Superconducting Thermometers (CRESST) is a direct dark matter detection experiment, located at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) in Italy.
It employs cryogenic calorimeters instrumented with Transition Edge Sensors (TESs) and operates at millikelvin temperatures (~15 mK). This technology enables CRESST to achieve outstanding nuclear recoil...
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Andrea Melchiorre (LNGS-INFN)16/06/2026, 14:40Oral contribution
The DAREDEVIL (DARk-mattEr-DEVIces-for-Low-energy-detection) is a new project aiming
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to develop a novel class of detectors to study Dark Matter candidates with mass below 1
GeV/c²
. The detection channel is DM-electron scattering, where the excitation energies of
the electrons should be matched to the transferred momenta. The only materials with energy
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Anna Bertolini (Heidelberg University (DE))16/06/2026, 15:00Oral contribution
The low-mass region of the dark matter (DM) parameter space remains largely unexplored, as detecting Light Dark Matter (LDM) requires both nuclear recoil thresholds below 100 eV and an approach capable of increasing exposures. The Direct search Experiment for Light dark matter (DELight) aims to address this challenge by using superfluid helium-4 as a target material, exploiting its low nuclear...
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Nahuel Ferreiro Iachellini16/06/2026, 15:20Oral contribution
Cryogenic detectors have demonstrated sub-keV sensitivity to both electron and nuclear recoils, enabling the exploration of dark matter candidates—such as sub-GeV particles and ALPs—that are otherwise hardly accessible to conventional solid-state detectors. Despite significant advancements in cryogenic technology and detector performance, scalability remains a primary challenge, largely due to...
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Culetu16/06/2026, 15:40Oral contribution
A static geometry with applications in microphysics is studied in this paper. The source of curvature is given by an anisotropic stress tensor and the spacetime is a traversible wormhole. The null and timelike radial geodesics are investigated and found to represent hyperbolae, but with different accelerations. Due to the very high acceleration, close to the maximum one given by Caianiello,...
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Rebecca Kowalski16/06/2026, 16:30Oral contribution
The Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE) is the first tonne-scale experiment using cryogenic calorimeters. The detector is located underground at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso and consists of 988 TeO2 crystals operated in a dilution refrigerator at a base temperature of about 10 mK. Thanks to the large exposure, sharp energy resolution, segmented structure and...
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Ms Laura Trombetta (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca)16/06/2026, 16:50Oral contribution
Axions and axion-like particles (ALPs) are well-motivated dark matter candidates. We present the potential of the RES-NOVA experiment, originally designed for astrophysical neutrino detection via CEνNS, to probe axion interactions using ultra-low background cryogenic detectors based on archaeological Pb. RES-NOVA employs PbWO4 crystals grown from ultra-radiopure archaeological Pb and operated...
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Usha Raut (Milwaukee School of Engineering)16/06/2026, 17:101Oral contribution
Several attempts have been made over the decades to integrate gravity into the Standard Model of the elementary particles, the most notable being the AdS/CFT gauge-gravity scenarios. However, none of these attempts have yielded satisfactory results. In this work, a novel BSM (Beyond Standard Model) theoretical framework is introduced to describe a possible integration of gravity into the...
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Dr Daniele Guffanti (University & INFN Milano-Bicocca)18/06/2026, 14:00Oral contribution
The next generation of large underground neutrino detectors will enable a broad physics program beyond neutrino oscillation measurements, including searches for physics beyond the Standard Model. In this context, the search for Boosted Dark Matter (BDM) in the large Liquid Argon TPCs (LArTPCs) of the DUNE far detector complex represents a particularly interesting opportunity. BDM models extend...
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Jose Javier Cuenca Garcia18/06/2026, 14:20Oral contribution
QROCODILE (Quantum Resolution-Optimized Cryogenic Observatory for Dark matter Incident at Low Energy) is a direct dark matter detection experiment based on superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) operated at cryogenic temperatures. By exploiting the exceptionally low energy threshold of these devices, QROCODILE is sensitive to dark matter interactions producing energy...
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Camilla Bonomo (Sapienza University of Rome and INFN - Roma 1)18/06/2026, 14:40Oral contribution
BULLKID-DM is a new experiment designed to search for low-mass WIMP-like dark matter particles (1~GeV/c$^2$ or below) with nucleon cross-sections below 10$^{-41}$~cm$^2$. The detector consists of an 800~g array of over 2000 silicon dice, each acting as a particle absorber instrumented with multiplexed Kinetic Inductance Detectors (KIDs). Background rejection is achieved through a fully active...
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