First neutrons for the MIGDAL experiment 😀
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The search for dark matter is on!🥳
The Migdal experiment🧪, a collaboration of 11 institutions led by @RutherfordAplab PPD and @imperialcollege, has been constructed at the NILE facility at @isisneutronmuon and it’s ready to receive its first neutrons ⚛️
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Our grad students have had a photo contest and we'll reveal the winners over the next few days 📸 Thanks to contest organiser John Carlton @KCL_Physics!
In third place was Yu Zhi from @Cambridge_Uni @DeptofPhysics with 'A binary system and “gravitational” waves: where are they?'
Excited that the MIGDAL experiment’s first paper is now published. The MIGDAL experiment: Measuring a rare atomic process to aid the sear... sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Our theory teams @KCL_Physics and @Cambridge_Uni @DeptofPhysics have a new #ArXiv paper!
We’ve characterised the impact of gravity gradient noise on dark matter searches with #AtomInterferometry 🌌
arxiv.org/abs/2211.01854
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We had a great final day to our collaboration conference, with graduate student talks, more updates on progress with experiments and simulations, and an exciting zoom session hearing from colleagues in the MAGIS-100 collaboration in the US.
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We’re working towards building an atom interferometer for #DarkMatter and #GravitationalWave detection in a 100 m (then 1 km!) deep shaft - this week we visited a possible site at the Boulby underground lab @BoulbyLab in North Yorkshire. Thanks for having us! @STFC_Matters

ALT Photo of four people standing in a white walled laboratory with a grey floor, next to a sign saying ‘UKRI Boulby underground laboratory’. The people are wearing orange hard hats and white overalls over orange high vis clothing, and white covers over their shoes.

ALT Five people sit on and stand around a wooden picnic bench next to a sculpture of a miner and mining equipment. The statue and bench top are grey metal and the people are wearing bright orange high vis clothing with hard hats. There is a field of hay bales behind them and mine buildings in the background. The sky is cloudy with some splashes of blue.
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There was no evidence for a dark matter signal in our first science run, so we have set world-leading constraints on WIMP properties.
Solid black: observed limit
Dashed-black: median expected sensitivity
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Hello from all of us Dark Matter hunters at the hybrid (in-person/remote) @DMUK_Comm meeting today - hosted by @PPD_STFC!
King's physicists contribute to research into quantum technologies kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-physici…
This article describes a pretty sad state of affairs ☹️nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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New on @arxiv "Search for inelastic scattering of WIMP #DarkMatter in XENON1T."
Link 👉 arxiv.org/pdf/2011.10431.pdf
Want to learn more? 🧵 to follow. 1/
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What is it that you know is there, but can’t see; and is all around us, but can’t touch? No it’s not a ghost… it’s #DarkMatter!
Find out more about this mysterious substance on #DarkMatterDay 👉 sanfordlab.org/event/deep-ta… @UKRI_News
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Great success for @KCL_Physics @kclmathematics @KingsNMS in today's announcements!
We are very happy to announce our University Research Fellowships for 2020. Meet the 38 successful candidates who will be working on a diverse range of research projects spanning the physical, mathematical, chemical and biological sciences. #RSGrants royalsociety.org/news/2020/0…
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New paper on solar axions. Given the recent XENON excitement, thought it timely to push this one out too: arxiv.org/abs/2006.10415
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#APPoftheDay @kareemrfarrag's poster for @nu2020_chicago, searching for #sterileneutrinos using astrophysical neutrino flavour ratios @uw_icecube and built awesome flavour tetrahedron. Learn from the video!
Video shorturl.at/fnLR2
@PhysicsatQM
Paper doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/20…
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#APPoftheDay Elizabeth Leason is a PhD student @Edinburgh_PPE working on LUX and @lzdarkmatter, two direct detection experiments looking for dark matter @SanfordLab. In this video she explains how she and her collaborators used LUX data to search for Mirror Dark Matter. 1/3
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Our sensitivity to #darkmatter goes hand in hand with the use of radiopure materials and stringent cleanliness protocols. The fact our new paper is 79 pages long tells you a lot about how important this is! Read here: arxiv.org/abs/2006.02506




























