Name: Accelerating the Search for Disappearing Light Dark Matter — a Community Workshop
Start: 2026-09-30T09:30:00+02:00
End: 2026-10-02T12:00:00+02:00
Location: Bethe Center for Theoretical Physics

Wednesday 30 September
- 1
  
  Welcome
  
  DinnerRestaurantMap.png
  
  RestaurantMap.png
- 2
  
  Light Dark Matter - Models, Mechanisms and Predictions
  
  Speaker: Patrick Foldenauer
  
  LDM_compressed.pdf
- 3
  
  Light Dark Matter - Existing Limits from Astroparticle Physics, Cosmology and Particle Physics
  
  Speaker: Dr Kai Schmidt Hoberg
  
  DM_Bonn_26.pdf
- 14:35
  
  Coffee
- 4
  
  Accelerators: ELSA
  
  Speaker: Dennis Proft (ELSA)
  
  vortrag.pdf
- 5
  
  Accelerators: SLAC
  
  Speaker: Mei Bai
  
  LESA4AcceleratingSearch4DM-workshop-Sept30-Oct2-2026.pdf
- 6
  
  Accelerators: JLAB
  
  Speaker: Patrick Achenbach
  
  Achenbach-LDMWorkshop-Bonn-2026.pdf
- 7
  
  Accelerators: CERN
  
  Speaker: Dipanwita Bannerjee
  
  LDM_Bonn2026_CERN_Beams_Banerjee.pptx
- 17:30
  
  Welcome Reception
Thursday 1 October
- 8
  
  Wakeup Session
- 9
  
  Overview: LDMX
  
  Speakers: Lauren Tompkins, Ruth Pöttgen
  
  Tompkins Bonn Workshop 2026.pdf
- 10
  
  Overview: Lohengrin
  
  Speakers: Cedric Breuning (University Bonn), Matthias Hamer (uni-bonn), Philip Bechtle (uni-bonn)
  
  Lohengrin-LDM-2026.pdf
- 10:30
  
  Coffee
- 11
  
  Overview: NA64
  
  Speaker: Paolo Crivelli
  
  AcceleratingLDM_NA64.pdf
- 12
  
  Discussion
- 12:35
  
  Lunch
- 13
  
  Magnets
  
  Speaker: Pierre Thonet
  
  LDM_Workshop_Thonet_1.pdf
- 14
  
  Tours
- 16:00
  
  Coffee
- 15
  
  Phenomenology: Signal Modelling
  
  Speaker: Martin Schürmann
  
  Theoretical Aspects of Invisible Light Dark Matter Searches in Fixed Target Experiments.pdf
- 16
  
  Phenomenology: Hadronic Backgrounds
  
  Speakers: Einar Elén, Laney Klipphahn (Universistät Bonn)
  
  HadronicBackgrounds-Lohengrin (2).pdf
  
  Lund introduction.pdf
- 17
  
  Phenomenology: QED Background
  
  Speaker: Nikita Blinov
  
  pres.pdf
- 18
  
  Discussion Session: Generators and Detectorsimulation
- 19:00
  
  Workshop Dinner
  
  Sudhaus (Friedensplatz)
Friday 2 October
- 19
  
  Wakeup Session
- 20
  
  Existing Infrastructure 1
  
  Speaker: Dirk Zerwas
  
  261002_Bonn.pdf
- 21
  
  Existing Infrastructure 2
  
  Speaker: Florido Paganelli
  
  261002LDCSBonn_final.pdf
- 10:30
  
  Coffee
- 22
  
  Open Points and Issues
- 23
  
  Closeout Session

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

Seminar Room bctp

Bethe Center for Theoretical Physics