(August, 2023) Prof. Perez’s video, “The dark matter mystery“, made in collaboration with MIT News, is now online.

(July 2, 2023) The GAPS payload has taken up residence at Columbia University’s Nevis Laboratories! It took four 20-ft shipping containers and a custom crate for the tracker to cross the country.

(June 30, 2023) Our paper is now out in IEEE Transactions of Nuclear Science, detailing the characterization of the >1000 Si(Li) detectors for the GAPS experiment. 

(May 5, 2023) Brandon Roach successfully defended his thesis! Brandon will be going on to a Kavli Fellowship at the University of Chicago / Fermilab. Congratulations, Dr. Roach!

(December 19, 2022) Dr. Mengjiao Xiao’s latest work, “Betelgeuse constraints on coupling between axionlike particles and electrons“, is out now!

(November 9, 2022) Prof. Perez is profiled in Columbia News, “A Professor Returns to Columbia, Where She First Explored Dark Matter as an Undergraduate“. 

(October 31, 2022) Dr. Field Rogers’ (Perez Lab alum!) paper on the Sensitivity of the GAPS Experiment to Low-energy Cosmic-ray Antiprotons is now out!

(July 11, 2022) Brandon Roach’s latest results searching for sterile neutrinos in NuSTAR X-ray data are out here. See Brandon’s excellent twitter thread explaining our new constraints here.

(June 1, 2022) Ian’s last day breakfast! Ian Bouche will start his Ph.D. in physics at Boston University in the fall. Good luck, Ian!

(April 1, 2022) Kelsey Yee has been awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship! Congratulations, Kelsey!

(March 30, 2022) Prof. Perez is awarded the American Physical Society’s 2021 DPF Early Career Instrumentation Award ”for the development of novel low-cost, large-area lithium-drifted silicon detectors that open sensitivity to rare low-energy cosmic antinuclei as signatures of dark matter annihilation or decay. These detectors can be used for a broad range of applications.”