While virtual collaboration has become a cornerstone of modern research, some tasks require hands-on efforts that can only be accomplished in person. Alessio Caminata from INFN Genova visited Astrocent for three days to collaborate with our team on the DarkSide-20k experiment — a major international initiative in the search for dark matter,…
Read moreForm 18 to 22 November, members of Astrocent attended the DarkSide-20k collaboration meeting held in Assergi, Italy. Organized by the Gran Sasso National Laboratory (LNGS), the event brought together collaborators to discuss the progress and challenges of the DarkSide-20k experiment. The meeting featured in-depth discussions on key challenges, proposed hypotheses,…
Read moreOne of the most important scientific collaborations in which Astrocent participates is DarkSide, an international affiliation of universities and labs seeking to directly detect dark matter in the form of weakly interacting massive particles. The collaboration is planning, building and operating a series of liquid argon time projection…
Read moreWe are pleased to announce that, according to American Physical Society, the paper to which Dr. Masayuki Wada (AstroCeNT/NCAC), Dr. Masato Kimura (AstroCeNT/NCAC), and Dr. Davide Franco…
Read moreOn the 23rd to 27th of October, the leader of group 4, Dr. Masayuki Wada, was invited to present the status of DarkSide-20k at the first edition of the ACHEP conference that took place in Rabat, Morocco. ACHEP is a biennial international conference series on High Energy Physics…
Read moreOn the 23-27th of October our colleague Dr Marek Walczak from research group 1 attended DarkSide Collaboration meeting that took place in L’Aquila, Italy. The DarkSide-20k experiment, searching of dark matter with liquid argon, is currently under construction at Gran Sasso National Laboratory (LNGS). Meetings in-person provide a great…
Read moreInIn June and July 2023, our PhD student Clea Sunny spent a very intensive time in Italy. Her scientific travel was divided into three parts, each of which contributed to her growth as a researcher and the development of international cooperation.…
Read moreOn the 5-8th of June 2023 Dr Azam Zabihi, member of group 4, took part in the 6th “International Workshop on Application of Noble Gas Xenon to Science and Technology” (XeSAT2023) at the SUBATECH laboratory in Nantes, France, hosted by the IMT Atlantique. The conference brought together physicists, chemists,…
Read moreOn December 6, 2022, Dr. Masayuki Wada, the leader of the Ultrapure SiPMs and Associated Readout Electronics group, took part in the Joint Seminar of the National Centre for Nuclear Research and the Faculty of Physics of the University of Warsaw
Read moreOn November 15–18, 2022, the DarkSide collaboration general meeting took place at Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy. Representatives of AstroCeNT
Read moreAt the beginning of November 2022, Dr Masato Kimura (research group 4 led by Dr Masayuki Wada) visited Fermilab in Illinois, USA. The trip had two goals. The first was to give a presentation on…
Read moreOn August 15-20, Dr. Masayuki Wada, the leader of AstroCeNT research group nr 4 (Ultrapure SiPMs and Associated Readout Electronics), paid visit to Canada, Edmonton to participate in DardSide Collaboration workshop. The workshop was organized by the University of Alberta. The DarkSide Collaboration is an international affiliation of…
Read moreIn July 2021, AstroCeNT team members Dr Marek Walczak (Research Group 1, SiPM Systems for Astroparticle Physics and Medical Physics) and Theo Hugues (joint APC-AstroCeNT (cotutelle) student) visited the APC Lab in Paris to work with Davide Franco, DarkSide Software Development Team Leader. Astroparticle and Cosmology laboratory in Paris…
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