Shedding Light on Dark Matter

By analyzing vast amounts of data collected through noisy sensors at an underground experimental facility at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory in Italy, a research team that includes UD professor Hagit Shatkay aims to detect, identify and localize dark-matter particles.

An interdisciplinary research team co-led by DSI Affiliated Faculty, Hagit Shatkay, has received a $1 million, two-year grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), to develop computational methods to accelerate data-intensive discovery in astroparticle physics — an important step toward understanding dark matter.