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

02 - 27 March 2026

Karoline Schäffner, Josef Pradler, Francesco Vissani, Riccardo Catena, Vanessa Zema

Week 1
Mon 02/03/2026
Time Session
9:30 - 9:50

Morning Coffee
9:50 - 10:00

MIAPbP Welcome Talk
10:00 - 10:30

Introduction - "Who Is Who"
10:30 - 12:00

Morning Talk

Ranny Budnik
12:00 - 14:30

Lunch
14:30 - 16:30

Afternoon Session
Tue 03/03/2026
Time Session
9:30 - 10:30

Morning Coffee
10:30 - 12:00

Morning Talk

Mariano Cababie
12:00 - 14:00

Lunch
14:00 - 16:30

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

Time Talk
14:00 - 14:30

Speaker and chair of the session

Phillip Urquijo
14:30 - 15:00

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

Kush Aggarwal
15:00 - 15:15

“Measurements of Energy Loss Functions with ELOISE”

Holger Kluck
15:15 - 15:30

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

Lorenzo Pagnanini
15:30 - 16:15

Discussion
17:00 - 19:00

Social event - "Bavarian Brotzeit"
Wed 04/03/2026
Time Session
9:30 - 10:30

Morning Coffee
10:30 - 12:00

Morning Talk

Gianni Profeta
12:00 - 14:00

Lunch
14:00 - 16:30

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

Time Talk
14:00 - 14:30

Chairs: Mattia Atzori Corona, Valentina De Romeri, Christoph Ternes
14:30 - 16:00

Dicussion
Thu 05/03/2026
Time Session
9:30 - 10:30

Morning Coffee
10:30 - 12:00

Morning Talk

Florian Reindl
12:00 - 14:00

Lunch
14:00 - 16:30

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

Time Talk
14:00 - 14:30

Speaker and chair of the session

Nora Taufertshöfer
14:30 - 14:45

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

Michal Iglicki
14:45 - 15:45

Dicussion
Fri 06/03/2026
Time Session
9:30 - 10:30

Morning Coffee
10:30 - 12:00

"Probing dark sectors with cosmology"

Mathias Garny
12:00 - 14:00

Lunch
14:00 - 16:00

Afternoon Session
Week 2
Mon 09/03/2026
Time Session
9:30 - 9:50

Morning Coffee
10:30 - 10:40

MIAPbP Welcome Talk
10:40 - 12:00

Morning Talk/Introduction "Who Is Who"

Marco Vignati
12:00 - 14:00

Lunch
14:00 - 16:00

Afternoon Session
Tue 10/03/2026
Time Session
9:30 - 10:00

Morning Coffee
10:00 - 11:00

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

Mattia Atzori Corona
12:00 - 14:00

Lunch
14:00 - 16:00

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

Time Talk
14:00 - 14:30

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

Margarita Kaznacheeva
14:30 - 14:50

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

Mattia Atzori Corona
14:50 - 15:10

"Diving into the LEE-fog"

Dominik Fuchs
17:00 - 19:00

Social event - "Wine and Cheese"
Wed 11/03/2026
Time Session
9:30 - 10:30

Morning Coffee
10:30 - 12:00

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

Gonzalo Herrera
12:00 - 14:00

Lunch
14:00 - 14:35

Afternoon Session

Time Talk
14:00 - 14:15

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

Kush Aggarwal
14:15 - 14:35

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

Lutz Ziegele
14:35 - 15:35

Mini-workshop chaired by Gonzalo Herrera

Time Talk
14:35 - 14:55

Talk by Ana Foguel

Ana Foguel
14:55 - 15:15

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

Pablo Figueroa
Thu 12/03/2026
Time Session
9:30 - 10:30

Morning Coffee
10:30 - 12:00

Morning Talk

Christoph Andreas Ternes
12:00 - 14:00

Lunch
14:00 - 16:00

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

Time Talk
14:00 - 14:30

Speaker and chair of the session

Felix Wagner
14:30 - 14:45

Talk

Rotem Ovadia
Fri 13/03/2026
Time Session
9:30 - 10:30

Morning Coffee
10:30 - 11:00

Morning Talk

Valentina De Romeri
11:30 - 12:00

Morning Talk

Zoltán Trócsányi
12:00 - 14:00

Lunch
14:00 - 16:00

Afternoon Session
Week 3
Mon 16/03/2026
Time Session
9:30 - 9:50

Morning Coffee
9:50 - 10:00

MIAPbP Welcome Talk
10:00 - 10:30

Introduction - "Who Is Who"
10:30 - 12:00

Morning Talk

Rouven Essig
12:00 - 14:00

Lunch
Tue 17/03/2026
Time Session
9:30 - 10:30

Morning Coffee
10:30 - 12:00

Morning Talk

Liangliang Su
12:00 - 14:00

Lunch
14:00 - 16:30

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

Time Talk
14:00 - 14:30

Speaker and chair of the session

Mukul Sholapurkar
14:30 - 14:45

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

Megan McDuffie
14:45 - 15:00

Migdal Effect in Liquid Xenon

Duncan Adams
15:00 - 16:00

Discussion
17:00 - 19:00

Social event - "Pizza"
Wed 18/03/2026
Time Session
9:30 - 10:30

Morning Coffee
10:30 - 12:00

Morning Talk

Tanner Trickle
12:00 - 14:00

Lunch
14:00 - 16:00

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

Time Talk
14:00 - 15:00

Chair of the session

Martí Raya Moreno
15:00 - 15:15

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

Robin Junwen Xiong
15:15 - 15:30

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

Marek Matas
15:30 - 15:50

"Updates on the DM-electron scattering code QCDark"

Megan Hott
Thu 19/03/2026
Time Session
9:30 - 10:30

Morning Coffee
10:30 - 11:15

Morning Talk

David Lhuillier
11:15 - 12:00

Morning Talk

Shao-Feng Ge
12:00 - 14:00

Lunch
14:00 - 16:30

Afternoon Session - Mini-workshop: W3-2 Calibration

Time Talk
14:00 - 14:30

Speaker and chair of the session

Madeleine Zurowski
14:30 - 14:45

"Calibrating Cryogenic Calorimeters: An overview"

Giorgio Del Castello
14:45 - 15:00

Novel calibration methods for cryogenic detectors”

Dominic Fuchs
15:00 - 16:00

Dicussion
Fri 20/03/2026
Time Session
9:00 - 10:00

Morning Coffee
10:00 - 11:00

Morning Talk

Alessandro Lenoci
11:00 - 12:00

Morning Talk

Joseph Bramante
12:00 - 14:00

Lunch
Week 4
Mon 23/03/2026
Time Session
9:30 - 10:30

Morning Coffee
10:30 - 12:00

Morning Talk

Christopher McCabe
12:00 - 14:00

Lunch
Tue 24/03/2026
Time Session
9:30 - 10:30

Morning Coffee
10:30 - 11:15

Morning Talk

Pyungwon Ko
11:15 - 12:00

Morning Talk

Benjamin Roberts
12:00 - 14:00

Lunch
14:00 - 16:30

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

Time Talk
14:00 - 14:30

Chair of the session

Christopher McCabe
14:50 - 16:00

Dicussion
17:00 - 19:00

Social event - "Wine and Cheese"
Wed 25/03/2026
Time Session
9:30 - 10:30

Morning Coffee
10:30 - 11:30

Morning Talk

Matthew Dolan
12:00 - 14:00

Lunch
14:00 - 16:30

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

Time Talk
14:00 - 14:30

Speaker on the applications of the computing tool WimPyC

Gaurav Kumar Tomar
14:30 - 16:00

Dicussion
Thu 26/03/2026
Time Session
9:30 - 10:30

Morning Coffee
10:30 - 12:00

Morning Talk

Madeleine Zurowski
12:00 - 14:00

Lunch
14:00 - 16:30

Afternoon Session: Mini-workshop: W4-3 Migdal

Time Talk
14:00 - 14:30

Chair of the session

Rouven Essig
14:30 - 16:00

Dicussion
Fri 27/03/2026
Time Session
9:30 - 10:30

Morning Coffee
10:30 - 12:00

Morning Talk
12:00 - 14:00

Lunch
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