M.Sc. Friedrich Carl Wagner, former master's student and now doctoral candidate at IMS, has been awarded the SUCCESS Pioneers Award 2025 by Suss for his outstanding master's thesis entitled “Development of a Magnetic Microcalorimeter for Searching Light Dark Matter.” IMS warmly congratulates Mr. Wagner on his award!
Dr. Constantin Schuster, former doctoral student at IMS, was awarded the Erika and Dr. Wolfgang Eichelberger Foundation Dissertation Prize for his outstanding dissertation entitled “Development of a novel SQUID-based microcalorimeter and software for microwave SQUID multiplexer optimization.” IMS warmly congratulates Dr. Schuster on his award!
The nature of dark matter remains one of the greatest mysteries in particle and astroparticle physics. As searches for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) have been unsuccessful so far, experiments have started to explore the lighter dark matter (LDM) parameter range. Researchers at KIT and the Universities of Heidelberg and Freiburg are developing the Direct Search Experiment for Light Dark Matter with Superfluid Helium (DELight), aiming for unprecedented sensitivity to dark matter particles with masses below 100 MeV/c² . Since DELight is based on novel and innovative technologies and detector concepts, the key to success is the careful testing and optimization of all relevant elements of the experiment. This is made possible by the DELight Demonstrator, funded by the HEiKA-STAR funding programme.
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