Name: 20th Patras Workshop on Axions, WIMPs and WISPs
Start: 2025-09-22T08:30:00+01:00
End: 2025-09-26T14:20:00+01:00
Location: No location set

20th Patras Workshop on Axions, WIMPs and WISPs

from Monday, 22 September 2025 (08:30) to Friday, 26 September 2025 (14:20)

Monday, 22 September 2025
08:30 Monday: Registration and Welcome
Registration and Welcome
08:30 - 09:20
Contributions

08:30 Registration

09:00 Welcome
09:20 Morning - 1: Monday
Monday
09:20 - 10:40
Contributions

09:20 Looking at Stars, Aiming for Axions - Georg Raffelt (Max Planck Institute for Physics, Garching)

10:00 Light dark matter search in XENONnT - Yongyu Pan

10:20 Dilaton phase transitions and axion relic pockets - David Marsh (Stockholm University)
10:40 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:40 - 11:00
11:00 Morning - 2: Monday
Monday
11:00 - 13:00
Contributions

11:00 Dark photons, ALPs, and the microwave spectrum - Bryce CYR

11:20 No Dark Matter Axion During Minimal Higgs Inflation - Claire Rigouzzo (King's College London)

11:26 Highlights from the NA64 experiment - Benjamin Banto Oberhauser (Institute for Particle Physics and Astrophysics (IPA), ETH Zurich)

11:46 Dark matter search results with a 0.2 ng detector - Friederike Januschek (DESY)

12:06 Investigating unidentified sources in the 4FGL-DR4 Fermi-LAT catalog as potential dark matter subhalos - Fernando Valenciano-Ruano (IAC)

12:12 Influence of Quadratic Axion-Matter Interaction on the Direct Detection of Dark Matter - Yeray Garcia del Castillo (UNSW)

12:18 Superradiant interactions of cosmic noise - Marios Galanis (Perimeter Institute)

12:38 MAGPI and GALILEO - Surjeet Rajendran
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:20
14:20 Afternoon - 1: Monday
Monday
14:20 - 16:06
Contributions

14:20 Searches of Axions/ALPS with (Baby)IAXO - Uwe Schneekloth (DESY)

14:40 Electron capture decays in the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment - Olivia Valentino (Imperial College London)

14:46 Cogenesis by QCD axion - Eung Jin Chun Chun (Korea Institute for Advanced Study)

15:06 Status of the CRESST-III Experiment - Dominik Fuchs (TU Wien / HEPHY)

15:26 Exploring New Axion Parameter Space with The ORGAN Experiment: ORGAN-Q, ORGAN-LF, & Work Towards Phase 2 - Ben McAllister (Swinburne University of Technology)

15:46 Towards post-Gaia new-physics constraints with globular clusters - Olga Ryutina (Saint-Petesburg State University)
16:06 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:06 - 16:20
16:20 Afternoon - 2: Monday
Monday
16:20 - 18:20
Contributions

16:20 Constraining Axions with Quantum Technology - Sreemanti Chakraborti (IPPP, Durham University)

16:40 Quantum Sensors for Dark Matter - Rakshya Khatiwada (Fermilab)

17:00 Updates on the Axion Longitudinal Plasma Haloscope (ALPHA) Phase I Construction - Max Silva-Feaver (Yale University)

17:20 Recent Progress on Axions in String Theory

17:40 Angular redshift fluctuations as an alternative cosmological probe in times of cosmic tensions - Carlos Hernández-Monteagudo (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias)

18:00 Axion Quark Nuggets as strongly interacting DM objects in Earth's atmosphere - Ariel Zhitnitsky (University of British Columbia)
Tuesday, 23 September 2025
09:00 Morning - 3: Tuesday
Tuesday
09:00 - 10:38
Contributions

09:00 The ORGAN Experiment: Progress and Future Directions in High-Mass Axion Searches - Michael Tobar

10:00 Axion Polarimeteric Experiment (APE) - Qazal Rokn (Maxplanck institute for gravitational physics)

10:06 Exploring Dark Matter Features with SNIPE Hunt and DALI Experiments - Abaz Kryemadhi (Messiah University)

10:26 Thermal design and modeling of the Tenerife Microwave Spectrometer: towards high precision spectral measurements of the microwave sky at 10-20GHz - Angela Maria Arriero Lopez (instituto de astrofisica de canarias)

10:32 FAxE: A Gigahertz Fabry-Perot Resonator for Axion Dark Matter Detection - Jacob Egge (University of Hamburg)
10:40 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:40 - 11:00
11:00 Morning - 4: Tuesday
Tuesday
11:00 - 13:00
Contributions

11:00 Are axion-like particles required to explain the observations of very high-energy photons from GRB221009A? - Manuel Meyer (University of Southern Denmark)

11:20 Dark matter from the dark axion portal - Paola Arias

11:40 Stringent Constraints on New Pseudoscalars from Precision Hyperfine Splitting Measurements - Cedric Quint (Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics)

11:46 First observation of reactor antineutrinos by coherent scattering with CONUS+ - Edgar Sánchez García (MPIK)

12:06 Thermal Friction on Axion Domain Walls from Nonequilibrium Quantum Field Theory - Amedeo Maria Favitta (Università degli Studi di Palermo)

12:26 Towards a Cavity Haloscope with a GHz Tuning System Using Galvanically Contacted Transmon Qubits - Kan Nakazono (The University of Tokyo)

12:32 Searching for Spin-2 Ultralight Dark Matter with Gravitational Wave Detectors - Paola C. M. Delgado (CEICO - FZU - The Czech Academy of Sciences)
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:40
14:40 Afternoon - 3: Tuesday
Tuesday
14:40 - 16:06
Contributions

14:40 Probing axion-like particles with multimessenger observations of neutron star mergers - Francesca Lecce (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

15:00 Data Analysis for the ALPS II Experiment's Initial Science Campaign - Daniel Brotherton (University of Florida)

15:06 Current Status of the Axion Dark Matter eXperiment - Dan Zhang

15:26 Axion strings - Javier Redondo (Universidad de Zaragoza)

15:46 From CAPP to DMAG - Sungwoo Youn
16:06 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:06 - 16:20
16:20 Afternoon - 4: Tuesday
Tuesday
16:20 - 18:20
Contributions

16:20 Exploring Axion Dark Matter with Quantum Sensors in the RADES Collaboration - David Díez Ibáñez (University of Zaragoza - CAPA)

16:40 Axion-like Particles in the Very-High-Energy Sky: From MAGIC to CTAO - Ivana Batkovic (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

17:00 First searches for axion and dark photon dark matter with MADMAX - Béla Majorovits (MPI für Physik)

17:20 0.5 eV QCD Axion Dark Matter - Noah Bray-Ali (Science Synergy)

17:40 The hunt for high frequency gravitational waves — GravNet: a global network of HFGW detectors - Kristof Schmieden (University of Bonn)

18:00 New Physics searches at the NA62 experiment - Tomas Blazek
Wednesday, 24 September 2025
09:00 Morning - 5: Wednesday
Wednesday
09:00 - 10:38
Contributions

09:00 Axions and the formation of supermassive black holes at cosmic dawn - Pierre Sikivie (UFL)

09:40 Millimeter-wave probes of axion dark matter with neutron stars - Evanthia Hatziminaoglou (European Southern Observatory / Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias)

10:00 Sensitivity of CTAO to axion-like particles from blazars: a machine learning approach - Francesco Schiavone (Università degli Studi di Bari & INFN Bari)

10:06 Investigating the isolated S1 backgrounds in the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment - Linda Di Felice (Imperial College London)

10:12 DOSUE-RR Experiment: The First Direct Search for Dark Photon Dark Matter at 1 meV Mass - Keigo Hanimura (Kyoto University)

10:18 Observing the string axiverse - Francesca Chadha-Day (IPPP, Durham University)
10:38 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:38 - 11:00
11:00 Morning - 6: Wednesday
Wednesday
11:00 - 12:38
Contributions

11:00 Axion, ALP, and HFGW Searches Across Complementary Experimental Frontiers - Marios Maroudas (University of Hamburg)

11:20 Supernova limits on light dark sectors - Jorge Martin Camalich (IFIC-Valencia)

11:40 Polarimetric Searches for Axions and High Frequency Gravitational Waves - Laura Roberts (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics)

11:46 Spin-2 ULDM Detection with Levitated Superconductors - Valentina Danieli (CEICO - FZU)

12:06 Feasibility Study of Hidden Photon Dark Matter Searches with an Itinerant Single Microwave Photon Detector - Chikara Kawai (The University of Tokyo)

12:12 Supernova bounds on new scalars from resonant and soft emission - Anton Sokolov (University of Oxford)

12:32 Axion searches with HTS coated cavities in RADES - Cristian Cogollos (Max Planck Institute for Physics, Munich)
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:20

14:20 Social events: Excursion
Excursion
14:20 - 18:00
Thursday, 25 September 2025
09:00 Morning - 7: Thursday
Thursday
09:00 - 10:40
Contributions

09:00 ANAIS-112 Experiment: searching for the WIMP wind under the Pyrenees to solve the DAMA/LIBRA puzzle - María Luisa Sarsa (CAPA, University of Zaragoza)

09:40 DALI: A Novel Magnetized Phased Array Haloscope for Axion Dark Matter Searches - Antonios Gardikiotis (Institute of Quantum Computing and Quantum Technology, NCSR “Demokritos”, Athens, Greece)

10:00 A High-Energy Neutrino Detection with KM3NeT - Irene Di Palma (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute))

10:20 Dark Matter Axion Search with the HAYSTAC Experiment - Reina Heeger Maruyama
10:40 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:40 - 11:00
11:00 Morning - 8: Thursday
Thursday
11:00 - 12:58
Contributions

11:00 Latest results from the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) dark matter experiment - Emily Perry (LBNL)

11:20 The ALPS II Optical System - Henry Frädrich (DESY)

11:26 WISP searches on a fiber interferometer under a strong magnetic field (WISPFI) - Josep Maria Batllori Berenguer

11:32 The Canfranc Axion Detection Experiment (CADEx): a novel haloscope search for Dark Matter axions in the mass range 330–460 μeV - Bradley Kavanagh

11:52 A Dark Photon Dark Matter Search with a Widely-Tunable SRF Cavity - Raphael Cervantes

12:12 Fine-grained dark matter substructure and axion haloscopes - Giovanni Pierobon

12:32 Grenoble Axion Haloscope (GrAHal) projects in collaboration with DMAG/IBS for Axion Dark Matter Search - Pierre Pugnat (LNCMI-Grenoble, CNRS & Université Grenoble-Alpes)

12:52 Machine Learning–Enabled Searches for Axions and Gravitational Waves with DMRadio-50L and ABRACADABRA - Jessica Fry (MIT)
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:20
14:20 Afternoon - 5: Thursday
Thursday
14:20 - 15:20
Contributions

14:20 Understanding Dwarf Galaxies to Understand Dark Matter - Alyson Brooks (Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey)

14:40 Status of the Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment - Jonathan Agil (Helmholtz Institute Mainz, JGU)

15:00 Detection of light-mass and ultralight dark matter particles with the TESSERACT experiment - Daniel McKinsey
15:20 Coffee break and Poster walk
Coffee break and Poster walk
15:20 - 16:50
16:50 Afternoon - 6: Thursday
Thursday
16:50 - 17:30
Contributions

16:50 Hunting axions with the James Webb Space Telescope - Elena Pinetti (Fermilab)

17:10 Towards a Measurement of Vacuum Magnetic Birefringence with ALPS II - Todd Kozlowski
18:15 Social events: Excursion and Dinner
Excursion and Dinner
18:15 - 22:30
Contributions

18:15 La Laguna cultural visit

20:00 Dinner
Friday, 26 September 2025
09:20 Morning - 9: Friday
Friday
09:20 - 10:18
Contributions

09:20 Searching for Spin-Dependent Exotic Interactions - Lei Cong (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)

09:40 The DELight Experiment - Anna Bertolini (Heidelberg University)

10:00 DMRadio-GUT: quantum advantage at the GUT scale - Nicholas Rapidis (Stanford University)

10:06 Phenomenology of axion-like particle emission by type Ia supernovae - Daniil Davydov (Institute for Nuclear Research (INR) of the Russian Academy of Sciences)

10:12 Search for Hidden Photon Dark Matter Using Direct Excitation of Superconducting Qubits - Karin Watanabe (Tokyo University)
10:38 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:38 - 11:00
11:00 Morning - 10: Friday
Friday
11:00 - 13:00
Contributions

11:00 Looking for ultra-light axions using dwarf galaxies - Andrea Caputo

11:20 Ultra-deep astronomical imaging to probe the dark matter properties - Ignacio Trujillo

11:40 Tunable haloscope at 10 GHz probing up to KSVZ QCD axion models - Giosue' Sardo Infirri (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

12:00 The stellar distribution in ultra-faint dwarf galaxies challenges collisionless cold dark matter - Jorge Sanchez Almeida (Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias)

12:20 SRG/eROSITA and the first uncontaminated view of the diffuse soft X-ray sky - Konrad Dennerl

12:40 A Novel Spiral-Based Tuning Mechanism for Plasma Haloscopes - Junu Jeong (Stockholm University)
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:20

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