New Project
UNDARK project kick-off meeting
October 10, 2024
Theory DivisionThe meeting took place at Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC)
This week took place the kick-off meeting of the UNDARK consortium , led by IAC. The meeting serves as a first encounter between all the teams from IAC, CERN, LAPTh, IFAE and WIS, and pretends to trigger discussions and potential collaborations between astronomers and theorists at the very earliest stage of the consortium.
Silvia Gasparotto, Fabrizio Rompineve, Juan Sebastian Valbuena and Diego Blas from IFAE participated and gave talks.
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