Light Dark World 2025

from Tuesday, 16 September 2025 (09:00) to Friday, 19 September 2025 (17:00)
IFT UAM/CSIC

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
16 Sep 2025
17 Sep 2025
18 Sep 2025
19 Sep 2025
AM
09:30
Fixed Target Exps (I) (until 10:40) ()
09:30 Overview of FIP searches at fixed-target experiments - Maksym Ovchynnikov   ()
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
Coffee Break (until 11:10) ()
11:10
Fixed Target Exps (II) (until 12:40) ()
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)   ()
09:30
Dark Matter (I) (until 10:40) ()
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
Coffee Break (until 11:10) ()
11:10
Dark Matter (II) (until 12:30) ()
11:10 Light DM detection in neutrino experiments - Jong-Chul Park   ()
11:40 New results of DAMIC-M - Olivier Deligny   ()
12:05 Inelastic DM constraints and viable scenarios - Renata Zukanovich Funchal   ()
09:30
Light scalars and axion-like particles (until 10:40) ()
09:30 Phenomenology of axion and axion-like particles - Javier Redondo   ()
10:00 Axion dark matter from heavy quarks - Mohammad Aghaie Moghadam Ozbak (University of Pisa and INFN Pisa)   ()
10:20 Constraints on ultralight scalars from compact stars - Dr. Tanmay Kumar Poddar   ()
10:40
Coffee Break (until 11:10) ()
11:10
Astrophysics (II) (until 12:30) ()
11:10 Searches for axions and DM using indirect detection - Dr. Elena Pinetti (Flatiron Institute)   ()
11:40 DM in celestial bodies - Sandra Robles   ()
12:05 Neutrino Self-Interactions: Solar and Astrophysical Constraints - Saeid Foroughi-Abari   ()
PM
13:45
Registration (until 14:15) ()
13:45 Registration   ()
14:15
Welcome (until 14:25) ()
14:25
Forward Physics Experiments and Colliders (until 16:05) ()
14:25 Overview of BSM searches at forward physics experiments - Felix Kling   ()
14:55 Dark Sector searches at Belle II - Enrico Graziani   ()
15:20 FIP/LLP searches at LHCb - Andrii Usachov   ()
15:45 Inelastic Dark Matter at ProtoDUNE - Sara Bianco (DESY Hamburg)   ()
16:05
Coffee Break (until 16:35) ()
16:35
Rich dark sectors and Heavy Neutral Leptons (until 17:45) ()
16:35 Overview: rich dark sectors and non-minimal HNL models - Silvia Pascoli (Bolognia University)   ()
17:05 Heavy Neutral Lepton searches at ICARUS-NuMI - Dr. 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
Lightning Talks (until 18:00) ()
17:45 Invisible Higgs decay from dark matter freeze-in at stronger coupling - Vinícius Oliveira (Lund University)   ()
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 - Mr. 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
Cocktail + Poster Session (until 19:30) ()
12:40
Lunch (until 14:30) ()
14:30
Cosmology (until 16:00) ()
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 - Dr. 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
Coffee Break (until 16:30) ()
16:30
Astrophysics (I) (until 17:50) ()
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))   ()
12:30
Lunch (until 14:30) ()
14:30
Very light and ultra-light DM (until 15:40) ()
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 - Dr. Eric Madge (IFT-UAM/CSIC)   ()
15:20 Scattering meets absorption in dark matter detection - Anh Vu Phan (Radboud University; Nikhef)   ()
15:40 --- Group Photo ---
16:00
Coffee Break (until 16:30) ()
16:30
Millicharged particles / Kaon Experiments (until 17:50) ()
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
Dinner (until 22:00) ()
12:30
Closing (until 12:40) ()