New Publication
Theory group paper on Scientific American
May 2, 2024
Theory DivisionScientific American has published the article interviewing Ricardo Z. Ferreira, former postdoc in the Theory Group.
The article’s title is Collapsing Sheets of Spacetime Could Explain Dark Matter and Why the Universe ‘Hums’ and it expands on the idea presented in the paper “Collapsing Domain Wall Networks: Impact on Pulsar Timing Arrays and Primordial Black Holes ” by Ricardo Z. Ferreira, Alessio Notari, Oriol Pujolàs, Fabrizio Rompineve.
Publication
A new approach to searching for ultraheavy dark matter
September 9, 2026
The study “First Search for Ultraheavy Dark Matter Using a Magnetically Levitated Particle” , co-authored by IFAE researcher Dorian Amaral and collaborators, explores a new experimental approach to probing interactions of ultraheavy dark matter. The work has been reported on Phys.org