DarkLight Collaboration Meeting @ SBU, May 18 - 19, 2026

18 May 2026, 08:00 → 19 May 2026, 21:00 America/New_York

C-120 (Stony Brook)

This meeting of the DarkLight @ ARIEL Collaboration will be held May 18 - 19, 2026 at Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, USA.

This meeting's focus will be on the analysis of the commissioning data, and planning for the future 30 and 50 MeV runs.

Monday 18 May

09:00 → 11:00 DarkLight Commissioning wrap-up

09:20 Introduction & Welcome

Speaker: Jan Bernauer (Stony Brook University)

Jan 2026 DL Collaboratiom Meeting Welcoming.pdf

09:30 Commissioning Summary

Speaker: Laura Miller

DLCollabMeeting_May2026_Commissioning.pdf

10:00 Overview of Analysis Topics & Papers

Speaker: Ethan Cline (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Analysis_Topics.pdf

10:30 Simulation Status

Speaker: Win Lin (Stony Brook University)

Simulation Status DL Collboration Meeting 05_18_2026.pdf

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee

11:30 → 13:00 Detector/DAQ status and plans

11:30 Trigger Analysis & Detector Status

Speakers: Dean Reiter, Mike Hasinoff (The University of British Columbia)

CM-2026-MH.pdf

Dean-Collaboration-051826.pdf

12:00 GEM Analysis & Detector Status

Speaker: Manjukrishna Suresh

GEM Analysis & Detector Status_DLCollabMeeting2026.pdf

12:30 DAQ Performance, Status, and Planned Improvements

Speaker: Jan Bernauer (Stony Brook University)

daq.pdf

14:00 → 15:30 Reconstruction Updates

14:00 Tracking Efficiency

Speaker: Mahmoud Alstaty

Collaboration_Meeting_May18_v2.pdf

14:30 Vertex Reconstruction

Speaker: Xavier Braun

Vertex_Reconstruction.pdf

15:00 ML Techniques & Mass Reconstruction

Speaker: Sid Gupte

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main.pdf

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee

16:00 → 18:00 Reconstruction Updates

17:00 Detector Discussion

Speaker: Kate Pachal (TRIUMF)

Detector discussion input.pdf

18:30 → 20:30 Collaboration Dinner

Tuesday 19 May

09:00 → 10:30 30 MeV Planning

09:00 Plans for 30 MeV Run

Speaker: Kate Pachal (TRIUMF)

30-mev-future.pdf

09:30 Upgrades for 30 MeV

Speaker: Douglas K Hasell (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Upgrade for 30 MeV.pdf

10:00 50 MeV Update and Plans

Speakers: Kate Pachal (TRIUMF), Stephanie Diana Rädel (TRIUMF)

50-mev-future.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee

11:00 → 12:30 30 MeV Detector Upgrades

11:00 GEM Upgrades for 30 MeV

Speaker: Michael Kohl

GEM_upgrades_30MeV_MichaelKohl.pdf

11:30 Accelerator Readiness for 30 MeV

Speaker: Stephanie Diana Rädel (TRIUMF)

Readiness.pdf

12:00 Trigger Upgrades for 30 MeV

Speakers: Konstantin Olchanski (TRIUMF), Mike Hasinoff (The University of British Columbia)

13:30 → 15:00 X17 Update and Future Plans

13:30 Status of X-17 Searches

Speaker: Ross Corliss (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

DarkLight.Physics.Update.2026.05.19.pdf

14:00 Future Measurement Plans

Speaker: Laura Miller

50 MeV for DL 2026 CM-1.pdf

14:30 O16 Update

Speaker: Richard Milner (MIT)

CTAG_collab.pptx

15:00 → 15:20 Coffee

15:20 → 16:30 Open discussion

15:20 Coincidence Search

Speaker: Win Lin (Stony Brook University)

Dark Photon Search Update (1).pdf

15:40 Moller Scattering Update

Speaker: Ethan Cline (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Moller_Scattering.pdf