At Work on the Grid Electrode for the DarkSide-50 Apparatus (IMAGE)

University of Massachusetts Amherst

At Work on the Grid Electrode for the DarkSide-50 Apparatus

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Undergraduate Arthur Kurlej welding the grid electrode onto its support ring inside the radon-suppressed clean room in the underground laboratory at Gran Sasso, Italy. Kurlej's advisor, physics professor Andrea Pocar, says undergraduates were notably helpful in designing and making this component of the dark matter detector there, known as DarkSide-50.

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