From 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 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 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 moreThe Low Radioactivity Techniques (LRT2024) workshop, hosted in the Jagiellonian University, took place in Krakow from October 1 to 4. The event examined topics in low-radioactivity materials and techniques fundamental to quantum information science and rare-event searches, including dark matter,…
Read moreLast week the results of the OPUS 24 and SONATA 18 competitions were announced by NCN (National Science Centre). Among the winners, Prof. Marcin Kuźniak, leader of Group 1 at AstroCeNT and main coordinator of the DarkWave (Horizon 2020)…
Read moreOn the 10th of March Dr Marek Walczak came back from a scientific travel to INFN Naples. The goal of his travel was to participate in tests of a veto photodetector unit for the DarkSide-20k experiment, which is one of the project tasks.
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 moreFrom November 29th to December 2nd, Dr. Masato Kimura (Ultrapure SiPMs and Related Readout Electronics group) paid a short scientific visit to Tokyo. The travel was made to participate in the “Kashiwa…
Read more8-12 August, Dr Marek Walczak (AstroCeNT/NCAC, SiPM Systems for Astroparticle Physics and Medical Physics) participated in…
Read moreOn June 3-7, 2022, the annual meeting of the DarkSide-20k Collaboration was held in Sardinia for the first time since the…
Read moreOn May 13-18, AstroCeNT team members – Prof. Tomasz Bulik, Dr Mariusz Suchenek,…
Read more17–22 October 2021 the 32nd Rencontres de Blois on Particle Physics and Cosmology was held. This series of annual international multidisciplinary meetings was created in 1989 by Jean Trân Than Vân and has covered many topics in physics, astronomy and biology. All sessions take place at the Château of…
Read moreAt the end of 2021 Dr Marek Walczak from AstroCeNT research group 1 paid second three-week visit to the National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) Genova in Italy. During the trip he worked…
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