Fill the Gap: Signatures of Electronic Excitations in Dark Matter and Neutrino Direct Detection Experiments

2 Mar 2026, 08:00 → 27 Mar 2026, 17:00 Europe/Berlin

Seminar Room (MIAPbP)

Monday 2 March

09:30 Morning Coffee

1 MIAPbP Welcome Talk

2 Introduction - "Who Is Who"

3 Morning Talk

Speaker: Ranny Budnik

12:00 Lunch

4 Afternoon Session

Tuesday 3 March

09:30 Morning Coffee

5 Morning Talk

Speaker: Mariano Cababie

12:00 Lunch

Afternoon Session - Mini-workshop: W1-1 Technology comparison

6 Speaker and chair of the session

Speaker: Phillip Urquijo

7 "Electronic Excitations in Skipper CCDs: Detection Mechanisms and Sub-GeV Dark Matter Sensitivity in DAMIC-M

Speaker: Kush Aggarwal

8 “Measurements of Energy Loss Functions with ELOISE”

Speaker: Holger Kluck

9 “Current and (future?) R&D activity at LNGS"

Speaker: Lorenzo Pagnanini

10 Discussion

17:00 Social event - "Bavarian Brotzeit"

Wednesday 4 March

09:30 Morning Coffee

11 Morning Talk

Speaker: Gianni Profeta

12:00 Lunch

Afternoon Session - Mini-workshop: W1-3 Atomic Physics Inputs in Electron Scattering: Bridging Dark Matter and Neutrino Interactions

12 Chairs: Mattia Atzori Corona, Valentina De Romeri, Christoph Ternes

13 Dicussion

Thursday 5 March

09:30 Morning Coffee

14 Morning Talk

Speaker: Florian Reindl

12:00 Lunch

Afternoon Session - Mini-workshop: W1-2 Detection mechanisms and sensors (Part A)

15 Speaker and chair of the session

Speaker: Nora Taufertshöfer

16 "Scattering rate of sub-GeV DM in materials: a theoretical upper bound"

Speaker: Michal Iglicki

17 Dicussion

Friday 6 March

09:30 Morning Coffee

18 "Probing dark sectors with cosmology"

Speaker: Mathias Garny

12:00 Lunch

19 Afternoon Session

Monday 9 March

09:30 Morning Coffee

20 MIAPbP Welcome Talk

21 Morning Talk/Introduction "Who Is Who"

Speaker: Marco Vignati

12:00 Lunch

22 Afternoon Session

Tuesday 10 March

09:30 Morning Coffee

23 Morning Talk "Exploring the Frontiers of Neutrino Physics through Coherent Neutrino–Nucleus Scattering”

Speaker: Mattia Atzori Corona

12:00 Lunch

Afternoon Session - "Towards Reliable sub-100 eV Discoveries with Cryogenic Detectors in the Presence of the Low-Energy Excess"

24 Speaker and chair of the session-"Low-Energy Excess in cryogenic detectors: Empirical Properties and Modeling Strategies"

Speaker: Margarita Kaznacheeva

25 "Tackling the Low‑Energy Excess to Probe New Physics with NUCLEUS"

Speaker: Mattia Atzori Corona

26 "Diving into the LEE-fog"

Speaker: Dominik Fuchs

17:00 Social event - "Wine and Cheese"

Wednesday 11 March

09:30 Morning Coffee

27 Morning Talk - : "New frontiers in neutrino and dark matter detection"

Speaker: Gonzalo Herrera

12:00 Lunch

Afternoon Session

28 Speaker of "Calibrating the Migdal Effect in Silicon with Neutron-Induced Sub-keV Nuclear Recoils”

Speaker: Kush Aggarwal

29 Talk by Lutz Ziegele "Development of Cryogenic Single-Photon Detectors to Study the Light Output of Sodium Iodide Crystals for Rare Event Searches"

Speaker: Lutz Ziegele

Mini-workshop chaired by Gonzalo Herrera

30 Talk by Ana Foguel

Speaker: Ana Foguel

31 Talk by Pablo Figueroa - "Sub-GeV Dark Matter meets Neutrinos at Xe Detectors"

Speaker: Pablo Figueroa

Thursday 12 March

09:30 Morning Coffee

32 Morning Talk

Speaker: Christoph Andreas Ternes

12:00 Lunch

Afternoon Session - Mini-workshop: W2-2 (Part B) Detector development and sensors

33 Speaker and chair of the session

Speaker: Felix Wagner

34 Talk

Speaker: Rotem Ovadia

Friday 13 March

09:30 Morning Coffee

35 Morning Talk

Speaker: Valentina De Romeri

36 Morning Talk

Speaker: Zoltán Trócsányi

12:00 Lunch

37 Afternoon Session

Monday 16 March

09:30 Morning Coffee

38 MIAPbP Welcome Talk

39 Introduction - "Who Is Who"

40 Morning Talk

Speaker: Rouven Essig

12:00 Lunch

Tuesday 17 March

09:30 Morning Coffee

41 Morning Talk

Speaker: Liangliang Su

12:00 Lunch

Afternoon Session - Mini-workshop: W3-1 Theoretical aspects of the Migdal Effect

42 Speaker and chair of the session

Speaker: Mukul Sholapurkar

43 An EFT approach to calculating the Migdal effect in semiconductors for sub-GeV dark matter direct detection, with a particular focus on spin-dependent interactions

Speaker: Megan McDuffie

44 Migdal Effect in Liquid Xenon

Speaker: Duncan Adams

45 Discussion

17:00 Social event - "Pizza"

Wednesday 18 March

09:30 Morning Coffee

46 Morning Talk

Speaker: Tanner Trickle

12:00 Lunch

Afternoon session: Mini-workshop: phonons and lattice dynamics in detector design

47 Chair of the session

Speaker: Martí Raya Moreno

48 “Limitations of phonon-mediated detection channels and potentials of electronic excitations; what about neutrinos? ”

Speaker: Robin Junwen Xiong

49 "Chiral phonons as a new quantum sensor for the detection of dark matter"

Speaker: Marek Matas

50 "Updates on the DM-electron scattering code QCDark"

Speaker: Megan Hott

Thursday 19 March

09:30 Morning Coffee

51 Morning Talk

Speaker: David Lhuillier

52 Morning Talk

Speaker: Shao-Feng Ge

12:00 Lunch

Afternoon Session - Mini-workshop: W3-2 Calibration

53 Speaker and chair of the session

Speaker: Madeleine Zurowski

54 "Calibrating Cryogenic Calorimeters: An overview"

Speaker: Giorgio Del Castello

55 New Calibration methods at low energies

Speaker: Dominic Fuchs

56 Dicussion

Friday 20 March

09:00 Morning Coffee

57 Morning Talk

Speaker: Alessandro Lenoci

58 Morning Talk

Speaker: Joseph Bramante

12:00 Lunch

Monday 23 March

09:30 Morning Coffee

59 Morning Talk

Speaker: Christopher McCabe

12:00 Lunch

Tuesday 24 March

09:30 Morning Coffee

60 Morning Talk

Speaker: Pyungwon Ko

61 Morning Talk

Speaker: Benjamin Roberts

12:00 Lunch

Afternoon Session: Mini-workshop: W4-1 Theoretical aspects of the comparison between liquid vs solid targets (follow up)

62 Chair of the session

Speaker: Christopher McCabe

63 Dicussion

17:00 Social event - "Wine and Cheese"

Wednesday 25 March

09:30 Morning Coffee

64 Morning Talk

Speaker: Matthew Dolan

12:00 Lunch

Afternoon Session: Mini-workshop: W4-2 Computing tools - Hands-on

65 Speaker on the applications of the computing tool WimPyC

Speaker: Gaurav Kumar Tomar

66 DM electromagnetic interactions in direct detection experiments

Speaker: Merlin Reichard

67 Dicussion

Thursday 26 March

09:30 Morning Coffee

68 Morning Talk

Speaker: Madeleine Zurowski

12:00 Lunch

Afternoon Session: Mini-workshop: W4-3 Migdal

69 Chair of the session

Speaker: Rouven Essig

70 Dicussion

Friday 27 March

09:30 Morning Coffee

71 Morning Talk

Speaker: Difan Yi

12:00 Lunch