Publications & Key Research

A list of all papers can be found here . Recent research work and publications of about the last five years:
 

Key Research Areas  

The group is deeply engaged in the design, construction and operation of present and future dark matter searches using noble‑gas and cryogenic technologies.

• 2025 – Dark Matter at Bedretto Laboratory
• 2024 – LXe measurements for XLZD using XENOSCOPE
• 2024 – Operation and analysis of QROCODILE SNSPD‑based DM experiments
• 2022‑2025 – Outer Detector Operations Manager on LZ, TPC calibration and event reconstruction
• 2021‑2024 – L2 manager for simulations on Tesseract
• 2020‑today – L2 manager for detector shielding and cryostat on Tesseract

Publications

Only selected contributions with primary contributions are shown.
Penning's current h‑index: 184 (full list at inspirehep.net).

• B. Penning et al., Characterisation of the Bedretto Underground Site for Fundamental Physics Experiments, 12 2025. arXiv:2512., submitted to EPJC
• LZ Collaboration, Searches for Light Dark Matter and Evidence of Coherent Elastic Neutrino‑Nucleus Scattering …, 12 2025. arXiv:2512.08065
• LZ Collaboration, Search for New Physics via Low‑Energy Electron Recoils …, 11 2025. arXiv:2511.17350
• E. Barillier et al., Setting limits on blazar‑boosted dark matter with xenon‑based detectors, Phys. Rev. D 113 (2026) 023005
• TESSERACT Collaboration, First Limits on Light Dark Matter Interactions …, PRL 135 (2025) 161002
• QROCODILE Collaboration, First Sub‑MeV Dark Matter Search …, PRL 135 (2025) 081002
• XLZD Collaboration, Neutrinoless double beta decay sensitivity …, J. Phys. G 52 (2025) 045102
• XLZD Collaboration, The XLZD Design Book …, EPJC 85 (2025) 1192
• LZ Collaboration, Dark Matter Search Results from 4.2 Tonne‑Years …, PRL 135 (2025) 011802
• LZ Collaboration, Probing the scalar WIMP–pion coupling …, Commun. Phys. 7 (2024) 292
• LZ Collaboration, The data acquisition system of LZ: FADR, NIM A 1068 (2024) 169712
• LZ Collaboration, The design, implementation and performance of the LZ calibration systems, JINST 19 (2024) P08027
• LZ Collaboration, Constraints on Covariant Dark‑Matter–Nucleon EFT Interactions …, PRL 133 (2024) 221801
• LZ Collaboration, New constraints on ultraheavy dark matter …, Phys. Rev. D 109 (2024) 112010
• LZ Collaboration, First constraints on WIMP–nucleon EFT couplings …, Phys. Rev. D 109 (2024) 092003
• LZ Collaboration, Search for new physics in low‑energy electron recoils …, Phys. Rev. D 108 (2023) 072006
• SPICE/HeRALD Collaboration, Demonstration of the HeRALD superfluid helium detector concept, Phys. Rev. D 110 (2024) 072006
• A. Biekert et al., A portable and monoenergetic 24 keV neutron source …, JINST 18 (2023) P07018
• LZ Collaboration, Background determination for the LZ experiment, Phys. Rev. D 108 (2023) 012010
• R. Anthony‑Petersen et al., A stress‑induced source of phonon bursts …, Nat. Commun. 15 (2024) 6444
• LZ Collaboration, First Dark Matter Search Results …, PRL 131 (2023) 041002
• A. Biekert et al., A backing detector for order‑keV neutrons, NIM A 1039 (2022) 166981
• J. Albers et al., A next‑generation liquid xenon observatory …, J. Phys. G 50 (2022) 013001
• LZ Collaboration, Cosmogenic production of Ar‑37 …, Phys. Rev. D 105 (2022) 082004
• Tesseract Collaboration, Scintillation yield in superfluid He‑4, Phys. Rev. D 105 (2022) 092005
• LZ Collaboration, Projected sensitivity … double β decays of 134Xe, Phys. Rev. C 104 (2021) 065501
• LZ Collaboration, Projected sensitivities … low‑energy electron recoils, Phys. Rev. D 104 (2021) 092009

Conference Presentations & Seminars

2026 – Moriond EW, France
2025 – Bristol, England; TeVPA, Valencia, Spain
2024 – ETH Zürich (Physics, Geology), Universität Bern, UF Espírito Santo (Brazil), Heidelberg University, PSI Baden, Karlsruhe, EDSU France
2023 – Univ. Alabama; Univ. Zürich; DM@UCLA
2022 – DESY Hamburg; Univ. Nebraska; Univ. Kansas; Snowmass; Blois (France)
2021 – Univ. South Dakota; EPS 2021 (Hamburg)

Academic Awards & Grants

• 2025 – SNF Project Grant for TESSERACT (967k CHF)
• 2024 – FLARE Grant for LXe DM (748k CHF)
• 2024 – AGORA Grant (50k CHF)
• 2024 – SNF Project Grant for LZ (692k CHF)
• 2023 – DOE HEP ReNEW Initiative ($1.15M)
• 2022 – UoM Tenure Track Faculty Initiative ($3k)
• 2021 – DoE Grant ($612k)

Professional Service

• 2026 – Dark Matter convener, ICHEP 2026
• 2025‑ Swiss representative at APPEC
• 2025‑ Zurich Instruments award committee
• 2024‑ DECTRIS Instruments award committee
• 2025 – Promotion committee UZH
• 2025 – Organiser, ICRC 2025
• 2024 – Organiser, CHIPP Winter School
• 2022 – Hiring committee, Univ. Michigan
• 2021 – Chair, Astro‑HEP seminar (Michigan)
• 2021 – Chair, Graduate Instrumentation Research Award committee
• 2022 – Org. committee: Exploring the Dark Side of the Universe, La Réunion
• 2022 – Org. committee: 14th CIPANP, Florida
• 2021+ – NSF, DOE, Austrian review panels