Accelerating the Search for Disappearing Light Dark Matter — a Community Workshop

30 Sept 2026, 13:00 → 2 Oct 2026, 12:00 Europe/Berlin

Seminar Room bctp (Bethe Center for Theoretical Physics)

Poster_Lohengrin.pdf

Wednesday 30 September

13:00 → 13:15 Welcome

13:15 → 13:55 Light Dark Matter - Models, Mechanisms and Predictions

13:55 → 14:35 Light Dark Matter - Existing Limits from Astroparticle Physics, Cosmology and Particle Physics

14:35 → 15:15 Coffee

15:15 → 15:45 Overview: LDMX

15:45 → 16:15 Overview: Lohengrin

16:15 → 16:45 Overview: NA64

16:45 → 17:15 Overview: DarkShine

18:30 → 20:00 Welcome Reception

Thursday 1 October

09:00 → 09:20 Phenomenology: Signal Modelling

09:20 → 09:40 Phenomenology: QED Background

09:40 → 10:00 Phenomenology: Hadronic Backgrounds

10:00 → 10:30 Discussion Session: Generators and Detectorsimulation

10:30 → 11:15 Coffee

11:15 → 11:35 Accelerators: ELSA

11:35 → 11:55 Accelerators: SLAC

11:55 → 12:15 Accelerators: JLAB

12:15 → 12:35 Accelerators: CERN

12:35 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 14:30 Magnets

14:30 → 16:00 Panel Discussion: Target + Tracker

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee

16:30 → 18:00 Panel Discussion: Calorimeters

Friday 2 October

09:00 → 10:00 Panel Discussion: TDAQ

10:00 → 10:30 Existing Infrastructure

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee

11:00 → 11:30 Open Points and Issues

11:30 → 12:00 Closeout Session