International collaboration
Our researcher Dr. Azam Zabihi is currently visiting the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP), Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, as part of the PROBES Project – an international collaboration uniting Europe, the United States, and Asia to advance particle and gravitational-wave physics.
During her one-month stay (July 2025), Dr. Zabihi is working with Prof. Yi Wang on:
- Cryogenic systems and detector technologies, including condenser and Time Projection Chamber (TPC) assembly.
- Testing cryogenic readout electronics using Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs).
This hands-on experience will help transfer expertise back to Astrocent, boosting our research on next-generation noble liquid detectors for dark matter and beyond.
Additionally, Dr. Zabihi is contributing to the XAr-T project, led by Dr. Davide Franco (APC, Université Paris Cité), which studies xenon-doped liquid argon scintillation – an innovation that improves light yield and addresses challenges in detecting light dark matter particles.
Seminar highlights
On July 16, Dr. Zabihi delivered a talk titled:
“A Novel Total-Body PET Scanner Using Xenon-Doped Liquid Argon Scintillator for Outstanding Detection: An application in medical physics of the DarkSide collaboration.”
This presentation showcased how technologies developed for fundamental physics can be applied to medical imaging, illustrating the impact of particle physics research on healthcare.
We are proud to see Astrocent actively contributing to global collaborations and sharing knowledge that bridges fundamental science and real-world applications!
