Dark Matter – DarkWave

DEAP-3600 collaboration meeting in Ottawa

Yuliya Hoika — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 16:52:00 +0000

10–13 August — The DEAP-3600 collaboration convened at Carleton University for its twice-yearly meeting, held in hybrid format, to review recent results, define objectives, and discuss future prospects in the search for dark matter.

DEAP3600 is one of the world’s most sensitive experiments for Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) dark matter detection. Its competitive sensitivity is achieved through the careful design of the detector located 2 km underground at SNOLAB in Canada.

ASTROCENT is proud to be part of this international effort. Our team contributed to the meeting with:

Light/charge collection and detection R&D at Astrocent — Prof. Marcin Kuzniak
Database management — Dr Michał Olszewski
Outreach activities — Yuliya Hoika

Such in-person meetings remain essential for fostering effective collaboration, facilitating the exchange of expertise, and advancing our collective mission to explore the nature of dark matter.

MINIATURA 8: Dr Michał Olszewski has been awarded a grant

Yuliya Hoika — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 09:29:43 +0000

To continue the research we did during the DarkWave, our team continues to write new grants.

Dr. Michał Olszewski, a member of Research Group 1 led by Prof. Marcin Kuźniak, has been awarded a grant from the National Science Centre in the Miniatura competition. His project, titled ‘Determination of the Sensitivity of the ARGO, DarkSide-20k, and DEAP-3600 Experiments to Supermassive Charged Gravitinos,’ will focus on the work being conducted by the Astrocent team in collaboration with international scientific partners in the search for dark matter.

Congratulations to Michał, and we wish him great success in implementing the grant!

DEAP-3600 Collaboration Meeting in Sudbury, Canada (13-16 August)

Yuliya Hoika — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 08:49:49 +0000

From 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 involved in this collaboration. During the meeting, Sarthak Choudhary (group 1, led by Prof. Kuzniak) presented joint work on Pulse Shape Discrimination in DEAP-3600, conducted in collaboration with Prof. Gawron’s group 5. Additionally, Yuliya Hoika delivered a talk on science communication and outreach activities.

Dark Matter – DarkWave

DEAP-3600 collaboration meeting in Ottawa

MINIATURA 8: Dr Michał Olszewski has been awarded a grant

DEAP-3600 Collaboration Meeting in Sudbury, Canada (13-16 August)

Photo: DEAP-3600 collaboration