The 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 moreFrom June 30 to July 4, Dr. André Cortez represented our team at the 2024 International Workshop on Radiation Imaging Detectors (iWoRiD) held in beautiful Lisbon, Portugal. The workshop is held annually and provides an international forum for discussing current research and developments in the area of position-sensitive detectors…
Read moreFrom June 4 to 7, 2024, members of the AstroCeNT group 5 — Dr. Piotr Kalaczynski, Dr. Tomasz Rybotycki, and group leader Prof. Piotr Gawron — participated in the WMLQ2024 workshop. The workshop was organized by the National Centre for Nuclear Research in collaboration with scientists from the University…
Read moreOn April 3rd to 7th, Dr Masayuki Wada, leader of research group 4, participated in the ALpine Particle Physics Symposium-Dark Matter Workshop (ALPS-DM) in Obergurgl, Austria. Dr. Wada gave a presentation on the topic “Low mass dark matter searches with liquid argon”.
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 moreOn September 18-19, AstroCeNT / NCAC PAS hosted scientists from various institutes, including INFN Torino, University of Warwick, University of Edinburgh, Lancaster University, and Royal Holloway University of London. They gathered for a topical workshop dedicated to testing the vPDUs (veto photodetector units) for the DarkSide-20k experiment. The event…
Read moreDr Andrew Cheek, a member of group 6, attended the international workshop NEHOP (New Horizons in Primordial Black Hole physics) in Naples which which took place from 19 to 21 June. This three-day event aims to nurture discussions and bring together experts…
Read moreOn the week between the 5th and 9th of June, Dr. Sebastian Trojanowski from the Particle Astrophysics group at AstroCeNT was invited to visit the Physics Division of the National Center for Theoretical Sciences (NCTS) in Hsinchu, Taiwan, and attended the workshop “The future is non-perturbative,” which was the…
Read moreOn November 4, a few days after the Dark Matter Day, the representatives of DEAP-3600 and
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