Dark Matter Beyond the Weak Scale IV

Contribution List

20. From Atoms to Machine-Learned Molecules: Dark Matter Detection at Low Energies

Jack Shergold

23/03/2026, 14:00

21. Probing sub-GeV dark matter scattering through sidereal modulation

Tetiana Kozynets

23/03/2026, 14:45

22. Beyond WIMPs in Direct Dark Matter searches (xenon realm)

Sergey Burdin

23/03/2026, 16:00

5. Dark matter at the smallest scales: New signatures of particle dark matter

M. Sten Delos

24/03/2026, 09:30

I will present prompt cusps, a recently identified class of compact dark matter structures with ρ∝r^-1.5 density profiles that form at the onset of structure formation and persist at halo centers. These systems enable new constraints on warm dark matter from dwarf galaxy kinematics, strengthen limits on annihilating dark matter, and offer detection prospects for general cold dark matter...

6. WIMP Dark Matter and New-Physics Interpretations of the PTA Signal are Incompatible

Yann Gouttenoire

24/03/2026, 10:15

Explaining the large amplitude of the nano-Hertz stochastic gravitational-wave background observed by pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) typically requires extremely energetic primordial sources. Such mechanisms generically produce large curvature perturbations, which subsequently collapse into ultra-compact mini-halos (UCMHs). If
dark matter consists of weakly interacting massive particles...

4. Astrophysical probes of ultralight particles: pulsar spindown, birefringence, and superradiance

Tanmay Poddar

24/03/2026, 11:30

26. Community discussion on navigating an evolving funding landscape

24/03/2026, 13:45

1. Ultralight Dark Matter at Colliders and Quantum Sensors

Martin Bauer

24/03/2026, 14:30

23. Electroweak Dark Matter: Generalised Framework and Direct and Indirect Search Prospects

Spencer Griffith

24/03/2026, 15:45

3. Status report on the QSHS axion search

Ed Daw

24/03/2026, 16:30

8. Dark Showers from Sneaky Dark Matter

Fatemeh Elahi

25/03/2026, 09:30

9. Probing the nature of dark matter with galaxies and Black Holes

Malcolm Fairbairn

25/03/2026, 10:45

12. Stellar cooling limits on dark dimensions

Henry Stubbs

25/03/2026, 11:30

Nearly 30 years since the ADD proposal to solve the hierarchy problem via large extra dimensions, such scenarios have seen a resurgence in interest in the context of the ‘dark dimension’ - an extra dimension of micron scale motivated by the swampland program. We will begin by reviewing the features of the dark dimension, including the possibility that dark matter could consist of Kaluza-Klein...

11. Stellar microlensing constraints on Primordial Black Holes

Anne Green

25/03/2026, 13:45

13. Searching for Dark Matter Microlensing Signals with Machine Learning

Miguel Crispim Romao

25/03/2026, 14:30

24. Discussion session / BeyondWimps report

25/03/2026, 15:15

27. Conference dinner

25/03/2026, 19:00

15. Talk

Ashlea Kemp

26/03/2026, 09:15

16. Cosmological tests of the nature of dark matter

Keir Rogers

26/03/2026, 10:00

The fundamental nature of dark matter so far eludes direct detection experiments, but it has left its imprint in the cosmic large-scale structure. Disentangling this imprint requires accurate modelling of structure formation in non-standard dark matter models, careful handling of astrophysical uncertainties and consistent observations in independent cosmological probes. I will review a...

17. Beyond WIMPs: Perspectives on Beyond Elastic Recoil Searches

Jocelyn Monroe

26/03/2026, 11:15

25. Conference dinner

2. Intro + logistics

10. Primordial black hole formation in nonstandard epochs

Sukannya Bhattacharya

7. Talk

14. Talk

18. Talk

19. Talk