DMUK - Lancaster University

Europe/London
FAR - Cavendish LT (Lancaster University)

FAR - Cavendish LT

Lancaster University

Christopher McCabe (King's College London), Paolo Franchini (Royal Holloway University of London - Lancaster University), Tom Neep (University of Birmingham (GB))
Description

This is a one-day meeting for the UK's Dark Matter community to meet up, present research, and discuss the latest progress in the field (see DMUK webpage for more information).
The meeting will take place from 09:00 to 18:00 at the Lancaster University, Faraday Complex, Cavendish Lecture Theatre.

We would like this to be an in-person meeting, but a zoom connection will also be made available (below) for those who are not able to travel.

 

 

We will be meeting for dinner Sunday 12th, 7pm, at Greaves Park. A table has been reserved for 30 people.

Deadline for registration: 30th April



Accommodation
can be provided on campus with the choice of the

you can make your own booking taking into account that there is limited availability. Another alternative can be staying in town.

Directions: the 4 and 4X bus services operate between Lancaster Railway Station (platform 3 exit, bus stop on the opposite side of the road) and Lancaster University every 30 minutes. The journey time is around 25".
Taxis are also available at the station.
Alternatively, at walking distance, the bus station is situated on Damside Street in the city centre and most buses also stop at Common Garden Street: 1/1A, 100, 4, 4X, 40, 41 and 42.
More details: https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/about-us/maps-and-travel.

Parking: visitors coming by car, can park on campus.


 

Participants
    • 09:00 09:10
      Welcome 10m
    • 09:10 09:40
      Theory overview 30m
      Speaker: Juri Smirnov
    • 09:40 10:05
      DarkSide-20k: Overview and Veto Production 25m
      Speaker: Dr Paolo Franchini (Royal Holloway University of London - Lancaster University)
    • 10:05 10:25
      DarkSide-20k: vPDU testing 20m
      Speaker: Alice Hamer (University of Edinburgh)
    • 10:25 10:55
      Coffee 30m
    • 10:55 11:20
      Status of the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment 25m
      Speaker: Dr Sally Shaw (UCSB)
    • 11:20 11:45
      Commissioning of the MIGDAL detector with fast neutrons at NILE/ISIS 25m
      Speaker: Dr Pawel Majewski (STFC/Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)
    • 11:45 12:00
      Molecular sieve vacuum swing adsorption purification and radon reduction system 15m
      Speaker: Robert Renz Marcelo Gregorio (Queen Mary University London)
    • 12:00 12:25
      Boulby Underground Lab 25m
      Speaker: Paul Scovell (STFC)
    • 12:25 12:30
      Input to STFC PPAN Roadmap from PAAP 5m
      Speaker: Sergey Burdin (University of Liverpool (GB))
    • 12:30 13:30
      Lunch 1h
    • 13:30 13:55
      XLZD@Boulby 25m
      Speaker: Henrique Araujo
    • 13:55 14:20
      Superfluid Helium-3 Calorimetry with Quantum Sensor Readout in the QUEST-DMC experiment 25m
      Speaker: Robert Smith
    • 14:20 14:45
      SOLAIRE 25m
      Speaker: Darren Price (University of Manchester (GB))
    • 14:45 15:10
      NEWS-G: Searching for dark matter with Spherical Proportional Counters 25m
      Speaker: Patrick Knights (University of Birmingham)
    • 15:10 15:40
      Coffee 30m
    • 15:40 15:55
      Forbidden Dilaton Dark Matter 15m
      Speaker: James Ingoldby (ICTP (Trieste))
    • 15:55 16:10
      Listening for ultra-heavy dark matter with underwater acoustic detectors 15m
      Speaker: Damon Cleaver (King's College London)
    • 16:10 16:30
      Progress and Status of QSHS's Axion Dark Matter Experiment: The Coldest Place in South Yorkshire 20m
      Speaker: Mr Claude Mostyn
    • 16:30 16:45
      Levitated sensor probes of axion dark matter 15m
      Speaker: Louis Hamaide
    • 16:45 17:00
      Quantum optomechanical sensors for dark matter detection 15m
      Speaker: Prof. Peter Barker (University College London)
    • 17:00 17:20
      Testing for dark matter with levitated mechanics 20m
      Speaker: Hendrik Ulbricht
    • 17:20 17:40
      Ultra-light dark matter searches with AION 20m
      Speaker: John Carlton
    • 17:40 17:50
      Thanks and goodbye 10m