research activity plan for 2023

WIMP Direct Detection:

SABRE South:

• Construction and assembly of SABRE South in SUPL

• Phase 1 Commissioning of the experiment

• Technical design report and white paper theory experiments

R&D Cygnus:

• Augmentation of CYGNUS-1 prototype with intensified camera readout

• Indentification of translation applications and focus on fast neutron detection

• Development of CYGNUS-Oz underground directional detection program

• 8th CYGNUS workshop on Directional Recoil Detection to be hosted by UoS

Current and next generation liquid xenon TPCs:

• Contributions to simulations and detector monitoring sensors

• XLZD design and sensitivity studies

Axion and WISP Direct Detection:

• ORGAN Phase 1b and ORGAN-Q operations and data analysis

• R&D on novel quantum technologies and to produce cavity resonators for ORGAN Phase 2

• Investigate cryogenic implementation of UPLOAD

• Increase the range of axion masses covered by the ADMX and ORGAN experiments

• ADMX sensitivity studies for future dark matter high and low mass extensions

• Improve the sensitivity of Scalar DM detection experiments to extend their scope to search for WIMPs and gravitational waves

Precision metrology (nuclear):

• Continued development of an AMS capacity to measure 210Pb at ANSTO accelerator

• Commissioning of the integrated fast isotope switching / timeof-flight detection systems

• Commissioning a new low background germanium detector at the ANU

• Progress ICP-MS measurement sensitivity and capability for 40K and other relevant naturally occurring radionuclides

LHC:

• Complete searches for invisible Higgs decays and final states with jets and missing transverse momentum

• Extend analyses techniques for further novel searches for Dark Matter

• Production and QC of the silicon detectors for the ATLAS inner tracker upgrade for High luminosity LHC

Theory:

• Project the sensitivity of Migdal-effect constraints on light dark matter in new experimental configurations

• Study the thermalisation of dark matter in neutron stars

• Determine the effect of a dark photon on high energy scattering data

• Better understand and quantify the impact of nuclear structure on dark matter direct detection rates

• Perform global fits to dark matter direct detection data, incorporating nuclear, astrophysical and quenching uncertainties

• Determine constraints on and potential new signatures of wellmotivated dark matter models.