DMUK Meeting December 2025 - University of Birmingham

Session

Morning Session 2

1 Dec 2025, 11:10

6. Ultra-pure electroforming at Boulby deep underground laboratory

Mr Giovanni Rogers (University of Birmingham (GB), STFC Boulby Underground Laboratory)

01/12/2025, 11:10

Rare-event search experiments, for example those looking for dark matter and neutrinoless double beta decay, require increasingly sensitive detectors. A critical aspect of this, is the reduction of backgrounds from detector materials, especially those in contact with the sensitive volume. High-grade copper is an attractive construction choice, due to its commercial availability and lack of...

7. Designing ultra-radiopure, high-strength, electroformed CuCr and CuCrTi alloys, for rare event searches

Dr Dimitra Spathara (University of Birmingham)

01/12/2025, 11:30

Future detecting systems for direct Dark Matter (DM) detection require ultra radiopure materials. Electroformed copper (EFCu) is the material of choice for large-scale detectors thanks to its favourable radiochemical, thermal, and electrical properties. To fulfil the unique radiopurity requirements, experiments pioneer large-scale, additive-free Cu electroformation in deep underground...

18. Status of the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment

Mr Nicholas Fieldhouse (University of Oxford)

01/12/2025, 11:50

17. Complementary discoveries: how to be FAIR?

Sukanya Sinha (The University of Manchester (GB))

01/12/2025, 12:10

In the global quest for dark matter, we often think of (and wish for!) a scenario where we will have more than one experiment confirming a discovery. The question we'd like to reflect on in this poster is: how do we make sure that others can also reproduce such a finding, or in other words that the data and tools we are using are Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reproducible (FAIR)? We...