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Particle Astrophysics Science and Technology Centre International Research Agenda at Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center Polish Academy of Sciences
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gawron on Wed, 13/11/2019 - 19:18.
Astrocent was established on 1 July 2018 following an award of a
grant of nearly 38 million PLN from the Foundation of Polish Science
within the program of International Research Agendas.
The main focus of Astrocent is to conduct research in science and
technology in the areas of particle astrophysics that deal with
exploring the hidden Universe. It is known that most of the content of
the Universe is still invisible to us due to its exceedingly feeble
interactions with ordinary matter that our detectors are made of. A
historical discovery of gravitational waves in 2015 provided us with
another example that a key to shed light on the invisible Universe is to
construct detectors that will be sufficiently sensitive to detect what
was previously beyond reach. These days, this is a formidable task that
requires an extraordinary and coordinated effort of researchers —
physicists and engineers — in developing a whole range of aspects of
complex detectors and data taking and processing techniques. This is
what researchers at Astrocent aim to do.
Currently at Astrocent there are six research groups working on
different themes:
- SiPM Systems for Astroparticle Physics and Medical Physics
- Seismic Sensors
- Electronics and Data Acquisition and Processing
- Ultrapure SiPMs and Associated Readout Electronics
- Scientific Computing & Information Technology
- Particle Astrophysics
Astrocent’s two main physics themes are dark matter in the Universe
and gravitational waves. In the first we conduct theoretical
investigations into the nature of dark matter and participate in the
DarkSide and DEAP experiments, as well as the emerging Global Liquid
Argon Dark Matter Programme. In the technological and programming
aspects we will also collaborate also with neutrinoless double beta
decay experiment and with the Jagiellonian University J-PET project. We
are also part of the Advanced Virgo Experiment detecting gravitational
waves from space where we specialise in dealing with seismic noise. We
aim to advance this further with the forthcoming Einstein Telescope
Project.
Astrocent’s strategic foreign partner is the Astroparticle and
Cosmology Laboratory located in Paris. At present our other main
partners are: Princeton University, Gran Sasso Science Institute,
McDonald Institute, Queen’s University, Carleton University, SNOLAB, as
well as European Gravitational Organization. Locally we currently
collaborate with Warsaw University of Technology and National Centre for
Nuclear Research.
