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

Sep 30, 2026, 1:00 PM → Oct 2, 2026, 12:00 PM Europe/Berlin

Seminar Room bctp (Bethe Center for Theoretical Physics)

Poster_Lohengrin.pdf

Wed, September 30

1:00 PM → 1:15 PM Welcome

1:15 PM → 1:55 PM Light Dark Matter - Models, Mechanisms and Predictions

1:55 PM → 2:35 PM Light Dark Matter - Existing Limits from Astroparticle Physics, Cosmology and Particle Physics

2:35 PM → 3:15 PM Coffee

3:15 PM → 3:45 PM Overview: LDMX

Speakers: Lauren Tomkins, Ruth Pöttgen

3:45 PM → 4:15 PM Overview: Lohengrin

Speakers: Cedric Breuning (University Bonn), Matthias Hamer (uni-bonn), Philip Bechtle (uni-bonn)

4:15 PM → 4:45 PM Overview: NA64

Speaker: Paolo Crivelli

6:30 PM → 8:00 PM Welcome Reception

Thu, October 1

9:00 AM → 9:20 AM Phenomenology: Signal Modelling

Speaker: Martin Schürmann

9:20 AM → 9:40 AM Phenomenology: QED Background

9:40 AM → 10:00 AM Phenomenology: Hadronic Backgrounds

Speakers: Einar Ele, Laney Klipphahn (Universistät Bonn)

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

10:30 AM → 11:15 AM Coffee

11:15 AM → 11:35 AM Accelerators: ELSA

Speaker: Dennis Proft (ELSA)

11:35 AM → 11:55 AM Accelerators: SLAC

11:55 AM → 12:15 PM Accelerators: JLAB

Speaker: Patrick Achenbach

12:15 PM → 12:35 PM Accelerators: CERN

Speaker: Dipanwita Bannerjee

12:35 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch

2:00 PM → 2:30 PM Magnets

Speaker: Pierre Thonet

2:30 PM → 4:00 PM Panel Discussion: Target + Tracker

4:00 PM → 4:30 PM Coffee

4:30 PM → 6:00 PM Panel Discussion: Calorimeters

Fri, October 2

9:00 AM → 10:00 AM Panel Discussion: TDAQ

10:00 AM → 10:30 AM Existing Infrastructure

Speakers: Dirk Zerwas, Florido Paganelli

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee

11:00 AM → 11:30 AM Open Points and Issues

11:30 AM → 12:00 PM Closeout Session