DarkSide

The DarkSide collaboration is an international affiliation of universities and labs seeking to directly detect dark matter in the form of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs). The collaboration is building a series of noble liquid time projection chambers (TPCs) that are designed to be employed at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory in Assergi, Italy.

Members

The following institutions' physics departments include members of DarkSide:

• Augustana College
• Black Hills State University
• Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
• Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
• Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Italy
• Princeton University
• Temple University
• UCLA
• University of Houston
• University of Massachusetts Amherst
• University of Notre Dame
• University of Virginia