Name: Accelerating the Search for Disappearing Light Dark Matter — a Community Workshop
Start: 2026-09-30T13:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-10-02T12:00:00+02:00
Location: Bethe Center for Theoretical Physics

Wednesday 30 September
- 1
  
  Welcome
- 2
  
  Light Dark Matter - Models, Mechanisms and Predictions
  
  Speaker: Patrick Foldenauer
- 3
  
  Light Dark Matter - Existing Limits from Astroparticle Physics, Cosmology and Particle Physics
- 14:35
  
  Coffee
- 4
  
  Overview: LDMX
  
  Speakers: Lauren Tomkins, Ruth Pöttgen
- 5
  
  Overview: Lohengrin
  
  Speakers: Cedric Breuning (University Bonn), Matthias Hamer (uni-bonn), Philip Bechtle (uni-bonn)
- 6
  
  Overview: NA64
  
  Speaker: Paolo Crivelli
- 18:30
  
  Welcome Reception
Thursday 1 October
- 7
  
  Phenomenology: Signal Modelling
  
  Speaker: Martin Schürmann
- 8
  
  Phenomenology: QED Background
- 9
  
  Phenomenology: Hadronic Backgrounds
  
  Speakers: Einar Ele, Laney Klipphahn (Universistät Bonn)
- 10
  
  Discussion Session: Generators and Detectorsimulation
- 10:30
  
  Coffee
- 11
  
  Accelerators: ELSA
  
  Speaker: Dennis Proft (ELSA)
- 12
  
  Accelerators: SLAC
  
  Speaker: Mei Bai
- 13
  
  Accelerators: JLAB
  
  Speaker: Patrick Achenbach
- 14
  
  Accelerators: CERN
  
  Speaker: Dipanwita Bannerjee
- 12:35
  
  Lunch
- 15
  
  Magnets
  
  Speaker: Pierre Thonet
- 16
  
  Panel Discussion: Target + Tracker
- 16:00
  
  Coffee
- 17
  
  Panel Discussion: Calorimeters
Friday 2 October
- 18
  
  Panel Discussion: TDAQ
- 19
  
  Existing Infrastructure
  
  Speakers: Dirk Zerwas, Florido Paganelli
- 10:30
  
  Coffee
- 20
  
  Open Points and Issues
- 21
  
  Closeout Session

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

Seminar Room bctp

Bethe Center for Theoretical Physics