Light Dark World 2025 (16-19 September 2025)

Light Dark World 2025

from Tuesday, 16 September 2025 (09:00) to Friday, 19 September 2025 (17:00)

Monday, 15 September 2025
Tuesday, 16 September 2025
13:45
13:45 - 14:15
Contributions

13:45 Registration
14:15
14:15 - 14:25
Contributions

14:15 Welcome slides - Pilar Coloma
14:25
14:25 - 16:05
Contributions

14:25 Overview of BSM searches at forward physics experiments - Felix Kling

14:55 Dark Sector searches at Belle II - Graziani

15:20 FIP/LLP searches at LHCb - Andrii Usachov

15:45 Inelastic Dark Matter at ProtoDUNE - Sara Bianco (DESY Hamburg)
16:05

16:05 - 16:35
16:35
16:35 - 17:45
Contributions

16:35 Overview: rich dark sectors and non-minimal HNL models - Silvia Pascoli (Bologna University)

17:05 Heavy Neutral Lepton searches at ICARUS-NuMI - Josu Hernandez-Garcia (IFIC, CSIC-UV)

17:25 The cosmic origin of matter from exact proton stability - Xavier Ponce Diaz (University of Basel)
17:45
17:45 - 18:00
Contributions

17:46 New probes of supernovae axion-like particles in neutrino water Cherenkov detectors - David Alonso-González (IFT (UAM-CSIC))

17:47 Constraining eV-scale axion-like particle dark matter: insights from the M87 Galaxy - Pratick Sarkar (Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science)

17:48 Ceilings from the Floor: Constraining light mediators with solar neutrino scattering - Pablo Blanco (IFT UAM/CSIC)

17:49 Neutrinos from Dark Matter scatterings around blazars - Jacopo Nava (U. Bologna)

17:50 Heavy neutral lepton searches in cosmic ray beam dump experiments - Baibhab Pattnaik (Instituto de Física Corpuscular (Universidad de Valencia-CSIC))

17:52 A Monte Carlo approach for simulating photon-ALP interconversion at gamma-ray energies in astrophysical environments - Gaetano Di Marco (IFT UAM/CSIC)

17:53 A Search for Dark Sectors Using Lasers - Silvia Lucia Correa Angel (Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte -UFRN, International Institute of Physics - IIP)

17:54 New benchmarks for direct detection of freeze-in dark matter - Rafael Lopez Noe (IFT UAM-CSIC)

17:55 Dark Matter in an Evanescent Three-Brane Randall-Sundrum Scenario - Alejandro Muñoz Ovalle (IFIC (CSIC/UV))
18:00

18:00 - 19:30
Wednesday, 17 September 2025
09:30
09:30 - 10:40
Contributions

09:30 Overview of FIP searches at fixed-target experiments - Maksym Ovchynnikov (CERN, Department of Theoretical Physics)

10:00 Long-lived particles at Spallation Neutron Sources - Salvador Urrea González (IJCLab)

10:20 Single pion production from interactions with dark matter - Jaime Hoefken Zink (Narodowe Centrum Badań Jądrowych (NCBJ))
10:40

10:40 - 11:10
11:10
11:10 - 12:40
Contributions

11:10 Overview of the X17 anomaly (20'+ 5') - Luc Darmé

11:35 PADME results on X17 searches (15'+5') - Mario Antonelli (INFN)

11:55 Latest results from NA64 (20'+5') - Paolo Crivelli

12:20 Exploring the Light Dark World with NA64 (15'+5') - Víctor Martín Lozano (IFIC/UV)
12:40

12:40 - 14:30
14:30
14:30 - 16:00
Contributions

14:30 Overview of recent results from cosmological observations and implications for particle physics - Eleonora Di Valentino

15:00 Detecting Ultralight Dark Matter with Matter Effect - Xucheng Gan (DESY)

15:20 New approach for study of dynamics of neutrinos in the primordial era - Vsevolod Syvolap (Instituto de Física Teórica)

15:40 Phasing-in dark matter - Henda Mansour (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
16:00

16:00 - 16:30
16:30
16:30 - 17:50
Contributions

16:30 Overview of astrophysical constraints on light dark sectors - Seokhoon Yun

17:00 Core-collapse supernova explosions hindered by eV-mass sterile neutrinos - Kanji Mori (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan)

17:25 The CMZ anomalous Ionization rate explained by MeV DM - Pedro De la Torre Luque (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid & Institute of theoretical physics (IFT-UAM))
Thursday, 18 September 2025
09:30
09:30 - 10:40
Contributions

09:30 Direct detection of light dark matter - Kimberly Palladino

10:00 Sub-GeV Thermal Relics Enabled by a Light Higgs Portal - Vishnu Padmanabhan Kovilakam (Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Münster)

10:20 From ANAIS-112 to ANAIS+: eight years of dark matter search at the Canfranc Underground Laboratory - Iván Coarasa Casas (CAPA - Universidad de Zaragoza)
10:40

10:40 - 11:10
11:10
11:10 - 12:30
Contributions

11:10 Light DM detection in neutrino experiments - Jong-Chul Park (Chungnam National University)

11:40 New results of DAMIC-M - Sravan Munagavalasa

12:05 Inelastic DM constraints and viable scenarios - Renata Zukanovich Funchal
12:30

12:30 - 14:30
14:30
14:30 - 15:40
Contributions

14:30 New approaches in light DM detection - Christina Gao

15:00 The Dawn of Nuclear Supremacy: First Bounds on Ultralight Dark Matter from the Thorium Isomer Transition - Eric Madge (IFT-UAM/CSIC)

15:20 Scattering meets absorption in dark matter detection - Anh Vu Phan (Radboud University; Nikhef)
15:40 Group Photo
Group Photo
15:40 - 16:00

16:00

16:00 - 16:30
16:30
16:30 - 17:50
Contributions

16:30 Millicharged particles - Yu-Dai Tsai

17:00 FIP/LLP searches at NA62 - Jan Jerhot

17:25 Searches for Dark Sectors at the Kaon experiments (NA62, KOTO) - Evgueni Goudzovski
20:00

20:00 - 22:00
Friday, 19 September 2025
10:00
10:00 - 11:10
Contributions

10:00 Phenomenology of axion and axion-like particles - Javier Redondo

10:30 Axion dark matter from heavy quarks - Mohammad Aghaie Moghadam Ozbak (University of Pisa and INFN Pisa)

10:50 Constraints on ultralight scalars from compact stars - Tanmay Kumar Poddar
11:10

11:10 - 11:40
11:40
11:40 - 13:00
Contributions

11:40 Searches for axions and DM using indirect detection - Elena Pinetti (Flatiron Institute)

12:10 DM in celestial bodies - Sandra Robles (Fermilab)

12:35 Neutrino Self-Interactions: Solar and Astrophysical Constraints - Saeid Foroughi-Abari
13:00

13:00 - 13:10