Dark Matter

News & Media

• Registration is now open for the next DMUK Meeting to be held at the University of Edinburgh on 28 July 2017
• Cultures combined: Art and science event, feuturing Chamkaur Ghag discussing Dark Matter research and interdisciplinary collaboration, The Royal Institution, 6th June 2017.
• Chamkaur Ghag will be talking about Dark Matter research at UCL and the LZ Dark Matter Experiment in a feature on BBC Radio 4's Insde Science 27th April 2017.
• Laboratory of Dark Matters: An evolving exhibition of new work and events through 2017 by nine artists grappling with the original research of astrophysicists searching for dark matter at Boulby Underground Laboratory, including talks by C. Ghag.
• PhD studentships starting October 2017 are avaliable in Dark Matter research. These studentships are part of the UCL's new Cosmoparticle initiative bringing together Dark Matter research across the High Energy Physics, Astrophysics, and MSSL Space & Climate Physics Groups.
• Registration is now open for the next DMUK Meeting to be held at UCL on 18 January 2017
• Article on new LUX results,WIRED magazine, feauting C. Ghag, S. Shaw and J. Dobson, 21 July 2016
• New world-leading results from the LUX Dark Matter experiment announced at the IDM2016 conference, Sheffield, 21 July 2016
• We have a fully funded PhD position open to work on the LZ Dark Matter Experiment, 18 May 2016
• Sally Shaw will speak at the Soapbox Science 2016 London on "Seeing in the Dark: the underground hunt for dark matter", Queen’s Stone, Riverside walkway, South Bank, London, 28th May 2016. Some of the session can be seen here.
• Jim Dobson will talk to A-level student about Dark Matter as part of the Particle Physics Masterclass, UCL, 15th February 2016.
• Chamkaur Ghag will be talking about the search for Dark Matter at the New Scientist Mysteries of Particle Physics Event, Royal College of General Practictioners, London, 13th February 2016.
• Join Cafe Scientifique as Chamkaur Ghag talks about Dark Matter, Cafe Ca'puccino, Tottenham Court Road, London, 7th December 2015.
• Chamkaur Ghag discusses the hunt for Dark Matter in Cosmos Magazine, 21st September 2015.
• Chamkaur Ghag will be discussing Dark Matter and the experimental searches aiming to discover it at Second Home, London, 4th September 2015.
• Jim Dobson will talk to A-level students about Dark Matter at Highlands School, Enfield, London, 9th July 2015.
• Chamkaur Ghag discusses the LZ dark matter experiment and direct dark matter detection on The Naked Scientists, 2nd June 2015.
• Dark Matter will be the focus of the next London Cosmology Discussion Meeting of the London Cosmology Institue, to be held at the Royal Astronomical Society on 28th May 2015.
• Sally Shaw discussed the 'Dark Forces' with the rebels gathering on Earth, as part of the lecture series accompanying the Star Wars production by Secret Cinema - 24 May 2015
• Sally Shaw will be talking about the underground search for dark mater with the LUX experiment as part of the UK Pint of Science Festival, 18-20 May 2015
• Chamkaur Ghag features in an IOP Physics World article on underground science at the Boulby laboratory - 5 May 2015
• Chamkaur Ghag features in Perspectives On The Unknown, looking at how artists interpret dark matter. Work created by Soomi Park, Roger Stabbins and Thomas Deacon - Friday 3rd April 2015
• Sally Shaw and Chamkaur Ghag will be part of the panel discussing Light into the dark mystery of the invisible Universe at the Your Universe festival, talking about the fundamental nature of the Universe, from tiny particles to gigantic clusters of galaxies - Saturday 28th March 2015
• Post doctoral research associate position in dark matter vacancy. This is a 3 year post at UCL working on LZ - Deadline: 25th March 2015
• Sally Shaw will present our Dark Matter research to MPs at the House of Commons at SET for BRITAIN 2015 - Monday 9th March 2015
• An interview with Chamkaur Ghag on The Naked Scientists and BBC Radio 5 Live discussing Dark Matter - Sunday 13th February 2015
• Chamkaur Ghag features as a guest presenter on the Sky at Night, BBC Four - Sunday 12th October 2014
• Dr Lea Reichhart has been awarded the Institute of Physics's Astroparticle Physics Group's biennial Thesis Prize, for her work on the ZEPLIN-III dark matter search experiment at Boulby Mine - Mondayday 8th September 2014
• Article on the second generation dark matter experiment down-selection, with LZ given the green light to proceed, Physics World, featuring C. Ghag - Tuesday 15th July 2014
• The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science and the National Science Foundation announced support for the LZ dark matter experiment, Tuesday 15th July 2014
• Article on the quiet search for dark matter deep underground, Ars Technica, featuring S. Shaw and J. Dobson - Tuesday 8th July 2014
• Registration open for the next Dark Matter UK (DMUK) collaboration meeting, Durham University, Monday 9th June 2014
• Interview with C. Ghag on BBC Scotland's Newsdrive programme, discussing dark matter and the LUX dark matter experiment - Tuesday 8th April 2014
• Article on the upcoming science run of the LUX dark matter experiment on BBC Science, featuring J. Dobson - Tuesday 8th April 2014
• The LUX dark matter experiment features on the BBC Newsnight programme, with S. Shaw operating the instrument - Monday 7th April 2014
• Results from the LUX dark matter experiment kick off Nature's 2013 Year in Review - Wednesday 18th December 2013
• Article on physics beyond the standard model on the Today programme, BBC Radio 4, featuring C. Ghag - Monday 9th December 2013
• Dark Matter feautures in 'Light and Dark', with C. Ghag discussing direct detection and noble gas experiments at Gran Sasso with Prof Jim Al Khalili - Monday 26th November 2013
• The LUX dark matter experinent features in the BBC's 'How to build a Universe', presented by Richard Hammond - Sunday 10th November 2013
• Article on the importance of the LUX dark matter results, featuring C. Ghag, in Forbes magazine online - Thursday 7th November 2013
• LUX achieves world-leading sensivitiy and sets most stringent constraints on spin-independent WIMP-nucleon interactions with first results from an 85 day eposure - Thursday 31st October 2013
• Feature on the first LUX results and interview with C. Ghag on Scince in Action, BBC World Service, Thursday 31st October 2013
• Article on the first results from LUX, BBC News, feautring interview with C. Ghag - Wednesday 30th October 2013
• The LUX dark matter experiment will announce first results on Wednesday 30th October 2013. Watch live via webcast from SURF here.
• Nature article on the upcoming LUX results announcement - Thursday 24th October.
• The next DMUK Collaboration meeting will be held at Royal Holloway University of London, Wednesday 9th October 2013
• Feature on how physicists are searching for dark matter on the Today programme, BBC Radio 4, interview with C. Ghag, Monday 2nd September 2013
• Feature on the LUX dark matter experiment on Dara O Briain's Science Club, BBC Two 26 mins. in - Thursday 22nd August 2013
• Article on the LUX dark matter experiment in the L.A. Times - Monday 8th April 2013
• BBC One News at Ten article on the first results from AMS-02, interview with C. Ghag - Wednesday 3rd April 2013
• DarkSide-50 and interviews with C. Ghag on BBC One, World, and BBC News - Wednesday 6th February 2013
• Article on DarkSide-50 in BBC science news, interview with C. Ghag - Wednesday 6th February 2013
• Interview about dark matter from Gran Sasso on BBC Radio 5 (1 hr. 55 mins. in) - Wednesday 6th February 2013
• Interview about dark matter from Gran Sasso on Radio 4 (49 mins. in) - Wednesday 6th February 2013
• XENON100 Spin Dependent Results - The XENON100 Dark Matter Search Experiment has released the world's most stringent constraints on spin dependent WIMP-neutron interactions. (January 2013)
• Post doctoral research associate position in dark matter vacancy. This is a 2 year post at UCL working on LZ and LUX - Deadline: 11th January 2013
• Nature's look ahead to 2013's key events features the LUX Dark Matter Experiment - Tuesday 1st January 2013
• LUX features in the BBC science news preview of 2013 - Sunday 30th December 2012
• Dark Matter and DarkSide-50 article in The Observer, interview with C. Ghag - Sunday 18th November 2012
• LUX installed and submerged in South Dakota - Thursday 15th November 2012
• DMUK - A new collaboration between all of the UK's Dark Matter experimentalists has been formed (August 2012)
• XENON100 Spin Independent Results - The XENON100 Dark Matter Search Experiment has released results from a 225 day run, setting the world's most stringent constraints to-date. (July 2012)