On June 26, 2025, the public defense of the doctoral dissertation by Sarthak Choudhary took place at the Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. Title of the dissertation:Optimisation of Light Collection in Liquid…
Read moreFrom 2–6 June 2025, the Astrocent team participated in the DarkSide-20k summer collaboration meeting, held in Geremeas, Sardinia. This annual gathering brought together researchers and engineers from institutions around the world to discuss progress, challenges, and plans for the DarkSide-20k experiment — one of the most advanced dark matter…
Read moreFrom 6 to 9 March, Yuliya Hoika and Michal Olszewski visited Riverside to participate in the DEAP-3600 collaboration meeting, hosted this time by University of California, Riverside. DEAP-3600 is a dark matter experiment located at SNOLAB, Canada’s deep underground laboratory. It uses a 3.3-ton liquid argon…
Read moreWe are pleased to announce another successful PhD defense from our team at Astrocent! On February 28, 2024, Paul Zakhary defended his PhD thesis, Measurement of Nuclear Recoils in Liquid Argon for Dark Matter Searches. Paul’s research focused on the…
Read moreFrom 5 to 11 January 2025, Prof. Masayuki Wada participated in the TMEX-2025 conference in Vietnam, where he presented an update on the DarkSide-20k experiment, sharing insights into its construction and engaging in discussions on the future of dark matter direct and indirect detection methods. TMEX-2025 is a significant event…
Read moreFrom January 12 to 25, Clea Sunny, a PhD student at Astrocent, participated in hands-on training at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory (LNGS) in Italy. She joined the expert team working on the DarkSide-20k Mockup Experiment, a crucial step in validating the DS-20k TPC detector. During the two-week training at…
Read moreLast Wednesday, January 15, 2025, we had the pleasure of hosting Prof. Wojciech Dominik and Dr. Mikołaj Cwiok from the University of Warsaw at Astrocent and our lab facilities at CEZAMAT. The discussions focused on exploring synergies and…
Read moreDr. Azam Zabihi from Astrocent is currently on a 1.5-month scientific secondment at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory (LNGS) in Italy. She is actively participating in the assembly of the DarkSide-20k mockup, a crucial phase in the development of this next-generation dark matter detection experiment. Each day, the expert team…
Read moreOur colleague Dr. Cortez, a member of the Astrocent team and a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, visited the Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics at the Czech Technical University (CTU) last Thursday. He delivered an IEEE seminar on the latest advancements in novel optical amplification structures for dark matter searches. During…
Read moreA new article published in Physical Review D showcases the remarkable contribution of AstroCeNT researchers Theo Hugues (Group 1) and Masato Kimura (Group 4) as part of the DarkSide-50 collaboration. The study explores the possibility of detecting dark matter through its predicted annual modulation effect caused by the Earth’s…
Read moreProf. Marcin Kuźniak and PhD student Sarthak Choudhary recently represented Astrocent at the LIDINE 2024 conference, held on the August 26-28 in São Paulo, Brazil. Hosted by the Principia Institute and supported by UNICAMP, UTFPR, UNIFAL, CTI, ITA, and CBPF, this year’s…
Read moreFrom 13 to 16 August, the DEAP-3600 collaboration meeting took place at SNOLAB in Sudbury, Canada. The DEAP-3600 collaboration is focused on the direct detection of dark matter using liquid argon, with the DEAP-3600 experiment being one of the significant projects in this field. Members of Astrocent are actively…
Read moreOn May 13th, two scientific articles written by AstroCeNT members were published in the renowned Journal of Instrumentation (JINST). – One of the articles titled “Cryogenic setup for the characterization of wavelength-shifting materials for noble element radiation detectors” (S. Choudhary, A.F.V. Cortez, M….
Read moreFrom February 26 to March 16, 2024, Dr. André Filipe Ventura Cortez, a member of AstroCeNT’s group 4, is visiting Princeton University’s Physics Department in the US. During his time at Princeton, Dr. Cortez will be involved in an experiment measuring the…
Read moreOn February 14-16, 2024, Dr. Masayuki Wada, the leader of group 4 at AstroCeNT, participated in the international workshop hosted by the Kobayashi-Maskawa Institute (KMI) at Nagoya University. The workshop, titled “Technology and Instrumentation in Future Liquid Noble Gas Detectors,” provided a platform for experts to discuss recent advancements in…
Read moreFrom November 14 to 16, Dr. Masato Kimura, member of group 4, undertook a significant visit to Princeton University with dual objectives. Primarily, the purpose of the trip was to deliver a seminar at Princeton University, illuminating the recent findings stemming from the DarkSide experiment. Dr. Kimura engaged in…
Read moreMaciej Kuźwa, technician working for AstroCeNT’s group 1, recently participated in DarkSide collaboration working meeting in Canada. The meeting was held in Edmonton from March 19 to 21, 2023. DarkSide is a group…
Read moreIn February 2023 Dr Marek Walczak and PhD student Theo Hugues had a scientific trip to Mexico City. The reason for such a long journey was to attended DEAP-3600 collaboration meeting, where scientists…
Read moreIn the first half of February, group leaders Prof. Marcin Kuźniak and Dr Masayuki Wada made a long trip to the DarkSide-20k collaboration meeting, which was held at Princeton University, USA. The DarkSide Collaboration is a research collaboration aimed at detecting dark matter,…
Read moreOn November 4, a few days after the Dark Matter Day, the representatives of DEAP-3600 and
Read moreOn October 21-23, the VI Conference of Doctoral Students of the Polish Academy of Sciences KonDokPAN was held in Krakow. The purpose of…
Read moreOur colleague, dr Sebastian Trojanowski from the Particle Astrophysics group, has been recently invited to present his work at the Iranian Conference on High Energy Physics (IRCHEP 2021): Deciphering the Universe Ciphers. The conference gathered more than 250 physicists (both locally in Iran and internationally from Europe and…
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