21st Patras Workshop on Axions, WIMPs and WISPs

Session

Monday Morning Sessions

9 Nov 2026, 09:00

University of Western Australia

48. SABRE South at SUPL Status and Physics Prospects

Prof. Elisabetta Barberio (University of Melbourne)

09/11/2026, 10:30

Invited Presentation

SABRE South is located at the Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory (SUPL), the only deep underground laboratory in the Southern Hemisphere, 1025 m underground (~2900 m water equivalent) in the Stawell Gold Mines, Victoria. The detector uses ultra-high-purity NaI(Tl) crystals with purity comparable to DAMA, combined with an active liquid scintillator and muon veto system. Together with its...

98. The COSINUS Experiment: From Commissioning Towards First Dark Matter Data

Alexander Bohmer (Vienna University of Technology (AT))

09/11/2026, 10:50

Oral Presentation

COSINUS is a cryogenic direct detection experiment for dark matter located at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) Underground Laboratory in Italy. Its primary goal is to provide a model-independent crosscheck of the long-standing annual modulating claim by DAMA/LIBRA. Therefore, COSINUS uses the same absorber material (NaI) as in DAMA/LIBRA, but operates it with a...

50. Dark Matter Search with Optical Quantum Sensors

Dr Leanne Duffy (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

09/11/2026, 11:05

Oral Presentation

Optical Quantum Sensors (OQS) are extremely sensitive ambient-temperature magnetometers which can be applied in axion dark matter searches using an inductor-capacitor (LC) circuit. At Los Alamos National Laboratory, we recently proposed to develop a sensitive search for ultralight axion dark matter by pushing OQS sensitivity to a world first level of 60 aT/Hz$^{1/2}$. Combining this OQS with a...

72. Recent results from the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment

Robert James (The University of Melbourne)

09/11/2026, 11:20

Invited Presentation

Dual-phase xenon time projection chambers are the leading technology in the search for WIMP dark matter. The LUX- ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment is the largest of its kind currently operating, deploying a 7 tonne liquid xenon active volume and two veto subsystems deep underground at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota, USA. LZ currently boasts world-leading constraints on...

44. XLZD - the next-generation dark matter and rare event observatory

Theresa Fruth (University of Sydney)

09/11/2026, 11:40

Oral Presentation

Currently running two-phase xenon time-projection chambers are at the forefront of the search for dark matter interactions via nuclear recoils in the mass range above a few $\textrm{GeV}/\textrm{c}^{2}$. The XLZD collaboration brings together the expertise of the XENON, LUX-ZEPLIN and DARWIN collaborations to construct a next-generation experiment capable of exploring the WIMP parameter space...