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Annora Sundararajan08/04/2026, 18:00Poster
Axions remain one of the most compelling dark matter candidates, arising from the Peccei–Quinn solution to the strong CP problem. Detecting them requires sensitivity to microwave signals with power levels below
10^−22W.Haloscope experiments search for photons generated through axion–photon conversion in resonant cavities embedded in strong magnetic fields. Achieving the required...
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Lizzie Bloomfield (University of Oxford)08/04/2026, 18:01Poster
QUEST-DMC is a dark matter direct detection experiment aiming for world-leading sensitivity to interactions with sub-GeV mass dark matter. The experiment is comprised of a superfluid helium-3 bolometer equipped with a NEMS acting as our detector and a SQUID readout system. A Geant4 model of the detector and surrounding cryostat has been developed to simulate the background energy deposits in...
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Jonathan Gutteridge (Boulby Underground Laboratory)08/04/2026, 18:02Poster
Delivering high-quality public engagement and outreach from 1.1km underground introduces a unique set of challenges. Restricted access to site, an unfamiliar and extreme environment, and a wide range of science that cuts across disciplines make the Boulby Underground Laboratory science programme difficult to convey to a varied audience. This poster covers the goals of the laboratory's outreach...
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Penghui Li (university of edinburgh)08/04/2026, 18:03Neutrino PhysicsPoster
The SuperNEMO Demonstrator is a double-beta-decay detector currently taking physics data at the LSM, France. It has a unique ability to measure the full topology of decay events, providing strong background rejection for $\beta\beta$ decay searches. However, extremely rare backgrounds from high-energy beta emitters can mimic $\beta\beta$-like signatures via secondary interactions. An important...
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Saule Piguleviciute (University of Manchester)08/04/2026, 18:04Poster
Direct detection experiment data is typically interpreted in terms of a single non-relativistic effective theory (NREFT) operator, for instance liquid argon detector data is historically interpreted only in terms of spin-independent dark matter interactions due to the zero nuclear spin of argon. However, in the NREFT framework multiple operators contribute. While the contribution of the...
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Robyn Evren (university of sheffield)08/04/2026, 18:05Poster
The LUX-ZEPLIN experiment is a low-background 7-tonne dual-phase xenon time projection chamber based at Sanford Underground Research Facility in South Dakota, USA. While the primary physics motivation is the search for WIMP dark matter interactions, investigations of other rare physics processes such as neutrinoless double beta decay are also being pursued.
If observed, neutrinoless...
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21. Production Modelling of the ATLAS ITk Strip Detector Using the ITk Project Production SimulationFawaz Mutllaq S. Alhawiti (University of Sheffield (GB))08/04/2026, 18:06Poster
The High-Luminosity LHC upgrade of the ATLAS detector requires the large-scale, distributed production of the Inner Tracker (ITk), posing significant challenges in scheduling, logistics, yield management, and risk mitigation. To support this effort, the ITk Project Production Simulation (IPPS) has been developed as a flexible, process-based discrete-event simulation framework that models the...
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Holly Lea Rose Davies (University of Sheffield (GB))08/04/2026, 18:07Poster
The reconstruction of electrons and photons in ATLAS, produced from proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), is based on the performance of the Topo-Clustering algorithm developed for electron and photon reconstruction in Run-4. To extract the signal, the algorithm reconstructs three-dimensional energy deposits in the calorimeter by grouping neighbouring cells with signal...
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Adam Ting (Royal Holloway, University of London)08/04/2026, 18:08Poster
We present a calculation from first-principles of the dark matter scattering rates in a superfluid $^3$He target, for both spin-independent and spin-dependent dark matter interactions. This study develops a complementary approach to studying the dark matter signal, accounting for the many-body physics of the target using the dynamic structure function. We find this both validates previous...
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Nicola Wilson (University of Liverpool, GSI Darmstadt)08/04/2026, 18:09Poster
The ALICE experiment at the LHC studies the quark-gluon plasma (QGP), a state of matter formed at extreme temperatures/densities with partonic degrees of freedom produced in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Jets, generated in the initial hard scatterings, are valuable for probing QGP properties. As they traverse through the QGP medium, their energy and structure are modified by medium...
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Ms Kayleigh Johnson (STFC - Boulby Underground Laboratory)08/04/2026, 18:10Poster
The Boulby Underground Laboratory provides a world class material screening suite for the radioassay of materials for rare-event particle research. This poster will present the Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer which is one of four instruments used at Boulby for the quantification of long-lived naturally occurring radionuclides Uranium-238 and Thorium-232 to high sensitivities....
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Haoxiang Zhan08/04/2026, 18:11Poster
DarkSide-20k is a direct dark-matter detection experiment which is under construction underground at LNGS. It deploys a 50 tonne dual-phase liquid-argon TPC designed for nearly instrumental background-free operation. DarkSide-20k is projected to probe spin-independent dark matter-nucleon scattering down to 7.4 x 10-48 cm2 for a 1 TeV/c2 dark matter candidate, approaching the neutrino floor....
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Andrew Mastronikolis (Imperial College (GB))08/04/2026, 18:12Poster
The High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) will operate with up to 200 simultaneous proton–proton interactions per bunch crossing, requiring upgraded detector readout, triggering, and data acquisition systems. The Phase-2 CMS Outer Tracker introduces new detector modules and a trigger architecture designed to contribute to online trigger decisions within 12.5 $\mu$s. Demonstrating the performance and...
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William Wang (The University of Edinburgh)08/04/2026, 18:13Poster
Many current forefront precision neutrino experiments are studying neutrinos and their properties, including the MicroBooNE experiment. The MicroBooNE detector employs a liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC), a detector technology at the forefront of the field due to its excellent capabilities in tracking, calorimetry, and particle identification. However, like most LArTPCs, the...
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Beth Green (Boulby Underground Laboratory)08/04/2026, 18:14Poster
Boulby Underground screening facility is our work class assay suite. This poster will contain a description of the different Ultra Low Background Germanium detectors at Boulby Underground laboratory, how they work and their properties. It will also explain the contributions our Germanium detectors make to world class science and the different projects we collaborate with on a global scale. Our...
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Cheng Jiang (University of Edinburgh)08/04/2026, 18:15Poster
High precision calorimeter simulation is essential for particle reconstruction, and precision measurements at the LHC and its High-Luminosity LHC upgrade. In precision channels such as H→γγ, accurate photon shower modeling directly impacts the diphoton mass resolution and signal sensitivity. Achieving the required precision demands very large Monte Carlo samples to constraint systematic...
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George Ramsey (The University of Edinburgh (GB))08/04/2026, 18:16
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Deb Sankar Bhattacharya (The University of Edinburgh (GB))08/04/2026, 18:17Poster
The Boulby Underground Technology Testbed for Observing Neutrinos (BUTTON-30) is a technology demonstrator installed in the Boulby Underground Laboratory (BUL) in the north-east of England. Situated at a depth of 1070 m in a polyhalite mine, BUL provides an ideal low-background environment for studying neutrinos and searching for dark matter. BUTTON-30 will study the performance of novel...
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