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

Week1_ Cababie - DM-e technology comparison.pdf

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

MIAPbP Workshop 2026 Urquijo.pdf

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

Week1_Holger_Kluck_ELOISE.pdf

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

De_Romeri_MiaPbB.pdf

Mini_Workshop_Bridging_nu_DM.pdf

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

Reindl_EXCESS_MIAPbP.pdf

Week1_Florian_Reindl_Discrimination.pdf

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

Week1_Nora_Taufertshoefer_Excitonic_contributions_to_DM_e_scattering.pdf

14:30 - 14:45

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

Michal Iglicki

Iglicki_FtG_MIAPbP_v2.pdf

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

Garny_Slides.pdf

Week1_Mathias_Garny_Cosmology.pdf

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

CEvNS_Talk_MIAPbP_Atzori_Corona.pdf

LEE_For_Discoveries_NUCLEUS.pdf

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

LEE_For_Discoveries_NUCLEUS.pdf

14:50 - 15:10

"Diving into the LEE-fog"

Dominik Fuchs

MiaPbP_LEE-Fog.pdf

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

MIABP2026_talk_Kush.pptx

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

Lutz_Ziegele_MIAPbP_2026­.pdf

14:35 - 15:35

Mini-workshop chaired by Gonzalo Herrera

Time Talk
14:35 - 14:55

Talk by Ana Foguel

Ana Foguel

Theory_Pheno_subGeV_DM_Foguel.pdf

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

MIAPBP_Ternes.pdf

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

20260323_detector_miniworkshop_TOSHARE.pdf

14:30 - 14:45

Talk

Rotem Ovadia

Rotem_Ovadia_subMeV_DM.pdf

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

MIAPbP2026-talk-Trocsanyi.pdf

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

Rouven-Essig-MIAPbP-talk.pdf

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

Migdal_electron_excitation_MIAPbP_LiangliangSu.pdf

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

Migdal_EFT_McDuffie.pdf

14:45 - 15:00

Migdal Effect in Liquid Xenon

Duncan Adams

LXeMigdal_Adams.pdf

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

03_18_MIAPbP_Trickle.pdf

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

PhononDynamics4DM.pdf

15:00 - 15:15

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

Robin Junwen Xiong

fill_the_gap_20260318_disc_xjw.pdf

15:15 - 15:30

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

Marek Matas

Marek Matas Chiral phhonons as quantum sensors for DM detection.pptx

15:30 - 15:50

"Updates on the DM-electron scattering code QCDark"

Megan Hott

MIAPbP_2026_QCDark2_Megan_Hott.pdf

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

Morning Coffee

10:30 - 11:15

Morning Talk

David Lhuillier

MIAPbP_March2026_Lhuillier.pdf

11:15 - 12:00

Morning Talk

Shao-Feng Ge

260319_MIAPbP_SFGe.pdf

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

Calibrations_Zurowski.pdf

14:30 - 14:45

"Calibrating Cryogenic Calorimeters: An overview"

Giorgio Del Castello

Miapbp_DelCastello_LANTERN.pdf

14:45 - 15:00

New Calibration methods at low energies

Dominic Fuchs

CRESST_new_Calibration.pdf

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

Lenoci_DM-e_interactions_fill_the_gap.pdf

11:00 - 12:00

Morning Talk

Joseph Bramante

N2 Detection MIAPBP_Bramante_Mar_20.pdf

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

BenRoberts-RelativisticAtomicScattering.pdf

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 - 16:45

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 - 14:50

DM electromagnetic interactions in direct detection experiments

Merlin Reichard

Reichard_EMmoments_25.03.pdf

14:50 - 16:20

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

Difan Yi

12:00 - 14:00

Lunch

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