This telescope, built by the Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) in France, uses gas to detect muons with high spatial resolution. Its potential was revealed to the world in 2017 with the discovery of a cavity inside the Great Pyramid of Giza1.
New collaborators joined the NEWS-G team recently. Mayank Arora started a MSc project in September 2022 to improve the beam line at RMTL. Annabelle Makowski and Jon Clarke started as grad students to contribute to the analysis of data from the 140cm sphere at SNOLAB. George Savvidis, after successfully defending his PhD on 21st December 2022, is now rejoining the team as a postdoctoral researcher, to continue detector development, both underground and in the lab at Queen's.
The third collaboration meeting took place in Kingston ON, Canada, at Queen’s University, where the group led by Gilles Gerbier is based.
The CAP (Canadian Association of Physicists) Congress is an event whose goal is to showcase and celebrate the achievements of physicists in Canada and abroad.
The NEWS-G experiment reports the first results from the search for low-mass WIMPs with SEDINE, a 60cm diameter Spherical Proportional Counter (SPC) prototype operated at the Modane Underground Laboratory (LSM). Competitive constraints were obtained on the spin-independent WIMP-nucleon interaction cross section in the GeV mass range and the most stringent limit ever reported worldwide was set for WIMP masses below 0.6 GeV.
The new International Center of Interdisciplinary Science Education (ICISE) has been constructed in Quy Nhon, Central Vietnam, and inaugurated in August 2013.
We recently welcomed some new faces to the Queen’s University team and as new members of the collaboration, they are going to introduce themselves…
Philippe Gros, Research Scientist
Spheres sprouting in the lab… (with Jacob & Mike as the gardeners)
Queen's Physics Department