Researchers from some of Australia’s top universities will come together to begin their seven-year journey to discover dark matter at the new ARC Centre of Excellence for Dark Matter Particle Physics’ first Annual Meeting today and Friday.
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Anita Vecchies is the Centre’s Chief Operating Officer. She has worked in research administration at the University of Melbourne since 2008, with extensive experience in large, collaborative Australian Research Council and government grant schemes.
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Christian is from the University of Freiburg and his main research is the physics at hadron colliders.
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Marc is from the University of Freiburg. He is an internationally renowned expert in the field of dark matter direct detection.
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Professor Eugene Ivanov is a Senior Principal Research Fellow in the Department of Physics at the University of Western Australia.
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Ian McArthur completed a PhD at Harvard University in supersymmetric quantum field theory.
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Peter conducted graduate studies in astronomy and astrophysics at the Australian National University and received his PhD in 1982.
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Thus far in these posts, we’ve discussed WIMPs, WISPs and axions. Whilst these- particularly WIMPs and axions- represent the prevalent candidate regimes for direct…
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Whilst looking for axion-mass DM candidates, the XENON1T experiment has indeed seen a surplus of events; but this does not necessarily mean the detection of a DM particle.
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Protoplanetary discs- discs of gas and dust around young stars, in which planets are forming- could be used to probe for very-low-mass axion DM candidate particles.
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Michael Tobar interviewed (in Spain!) about his work in axion studies and broader aspects of his career.
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Professor Bell is one of this year’s two recipients of the Australian Academy of Science’s Nancy Millis Medal for Women in Science.
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Correlation between the distributions of the diffuse gamma-ray glow across the sky and matter throughout the universe may help throw light on the search for gamma-ray emission from dark matter particle annihilation.
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Tony Thomas receives high award in the 2020 Australia Day Honours.
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Observations by the Hubble Space Telescope of gravitationally-lensed quasars have been used to detect the smallest clumps of dark matter found thus far.
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A brief overview of what we mean by “precision metrology” in the context of the Centre’s search for dark matter.
Read MoreUS funding extends the ADMX search for axions
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Celebrate the search for Dark Matter!
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SUPL excavation reaches major milestone
Read MoreBefore we get started, it should be pointed out that what is meant here by “small-scale” is something on the scale of our galaxy’s dark matter halo.
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