[11.01.2012] TU Dresden joins DARWIN

The DARWIN consortium is growing once more. The group of Kai Zuber at TU Dresden (Germany) is joining DARWIN with the start of the year 2012.

[29.11.2011] New Proceedings Paper on DARWIN online

An article to appear in the Proceedings of the 7th Patras workshop on Axions, WIMPs and WISPs is available online now. It gives an overview on the project and on the current status of the R&D activities within the consortium.

• DARWIN [arXiv:1111.6251]

[18.10.2011] Arizona State University joins DARWIN

We are pleased to announce that our working group "Scientific Impact" is getting stronger as the cosmology group of Arizona State University (Lawrence Krauss) is joining the DARWIN consortium.

[20.09.2011] Third general DARWIN meeting in Amsterdam

On September 15 and 16, 2011, the third face-to-face meeting of the DARWIN consortium was held at Nikhef in Amsterdam. Many members were attending and presented their research progress on the various topics covered in DARWIN.

      
All presentations of this meeting can be found here (restricted access).

[08.09.2011] Talk on DARWIN at TAUP 2011

The bi-annual meeting on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics (TAUP) is one of the most iimportant and biggest meeting for Dark Matter Searches. It's 12th edition was held September 5-9 in Munich, Germany.

DARWIN has been presented at this meeting, the presentation can be found here.

[01.08.2011] Information regarding the 3rd DARWIN Meeting

As announced previously, the third general meeting of the DARWIN consortium will take place at Nikhef in Amsterdam on September 15 and 16, 2011. Information regarding accomodation and transportation can be found in the DARWIN wiki.

[01.07.2011] DARWIN presented at PATRAS11

The DARWIN project has been presented at the 7th Patras Workshop on Axions, WIMPs and WISPs which was taking place end of June on the Greek island Mykonos.

• Link to the presentation

[01.06.2011] DARWIN consortium is growing

We are happy to announce that new groups have recently joined the DARWIN consortium:

• University of Bologna (Italy)
• Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel)
• University of Perugia (Italy)
• INFN Milano and INFN LNGS (Italy)

[02.05.2011] Announcement of the 3rd DARWIN Meeting

The third general meeting of the DARWIN consortium will take place in Amsterdam on September 15 and 16, 2011.

[22.12.2010] Conference Proceedings Article on DARWIN online

The first conference proceedings article on the DARWIN project, based on a presentation given at IDM2010 in Montpellier, France, is now online:

• DARWIN: dark matter WIMP search with noble liquids [arXiv:1012.4767]

[22.10.2010] ASPERA Technology Forum, Munich

The DARWIN project and its technical requirements were presented at the ASPERA Technology Forum on Photosensors and auxiliary electronics in Munich, Germany.

• Link to the presentation

[15.09.2010] Second general DARWIN meeting in Zurich

The second meeting of the DARWIN consortium was held on Sept 14-15 at the University Zurich. About 30 scientists came together to report on the progress that has been achieved in the time since the last meeting.

      
More information about this event and the results presented at the meeting (restricted access) can be found here.

[02.08.2010] Announcement of the second DARWIN meeting in Zurich

The second general meeting of the DARWIN consortium will take place at the University of Zurich on September 14-15 2010.
More information can be found here.

[30.07.2010] DARWIN was presented at several international conferences

Since the first meeting, the DARWIN project and the consortium were presented at several international conferences and workshops in Europe and the United States. The talks of Laura Baudis (DARWIN project coordinator) can be found online:

• 26.02.2010: UCLA Symposium 2010, Los Angeles, USA
• 23.03.2010: WONDER 2010 @ LNGS, Italy
• 30.07.2010: IDM 2010, Montpellier France

[26.01.2010] First DARWIN meeting

The first face-to-face meeting of the full DARWIN consortium was held at the Physik Institut of the University of Zürich on January 25-26, 2010.
      
More than 35 members of the collaboration got together and discussed the DARWIN project in an open and constructive atmosphere. It was a succesful start of the collaboration on its way towards a large scale, liquid noble gas based Dark Matter experiment in Europe.
Collaboration members can find more information about this event on the internal pages.

[30.10.2009] DARWIN approved by the ASPERA network

We are happy to announce that the DARWIN proposal got approval by the ASPERA network, and that the DARWIN groups from Italy, France, the Netherlands, and Switzerland will be funded to work on this project at a total cost of 633 kEuro.
The network says about DARWIN: One of the strengths of this project is that it brings together groups working in the existing Xenon, WArP-140 and ArDM collaborations and unites expertise on liquid noble gas detectors, low-background techniques, cryogenic infrastructures and shielding.
Read more on the ASPERA website.

[04.06.2009] DARWIN proposal submitted