Darren Price
@darrenprice.bsky.social
Particle physicist and Professor at University of Manchester, CERN/ATLAS experiment. Dark matter hunter, LAr TPCs, quantum sensor technology development, AI. Explorer. Go science! 🏴🇪🇺🇵🇱
Congratulations to Dr. Harvey Birch! It was a pleasure to visit the University of Zürich as External Examiner for his PhD viva on liquid-xenon direct dark matter searches, and to tour the Department including the impressive Xenoscope demonstrator for future of liquid-xenon science.
September 30, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Congratulations to Dr. Harvey Birch! It was a pleasure to visit the University of Zürich as External Examiner for his PhD viva on liquid-xenon direct dark matter searches, and to tour the Department including the impressive Xenoscope demonstrator for future of liquid-xenon science.
Today we enjoyed presenting our 'Seeing the unseen: a particle physics mystery' stand at the Universally Manchester festival at The University of Manchester reaching hundreds of people! Want to produce your own? @cern.bsky.social has produced some great guidance at scoollab.web.cern.ch/mystery-boxes
June 14, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Today we enjoyed presenting our 'Seeing the unseen: a particle physics mystery' stand at the Universally Manchester festival at The University of Manchester reaching hundreds of people! Want to produce your own? @cern.bsky.social has produced some great guidance at scoollab.web.cern.ch/mystery-boxes
I'll be talking all things #particlephysics and "Discovering the Unknown" at a public talk in Sale, Greater Manchester, on Friday June 27th at 19:30 -- hope to see you there!
Tickets at: watersidearts.org/events/sale-... (proceeds go to charity)
Tickets at: watersidearts.org/events/sale-... (proceeds go to charity)
June 9, 2025 at 12:38 PM
I'll be talking all things #particlephysics and "Discovering the Unknown" at a public talk in Sale, Greater Manchester, on Friday June 27th at 19:30 -- hope to see you there!
Tickets at: watersidearts.org/events/sale-... (proceeds go to charity)
Tickets at: watersidearts.org/events/sale-... (proceeds go to charity)
Registration is open for A-Level #physics school groups / individual students to attend our one-day Particle Physics Masterclass at the University of Manchester on April 4th 2025! We have 300 available slots for students & school groups who wish to attend. Sign up here: indico.global/event/4172/
February 19, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Registration is open for A-Level #physics school groups / individual students to attend our one-day Particle Physics Masterclass at the University of Manchester on April 4th 2025! We have 300 available slots for students & school groups who wish to attend. Sign up here: indico.global/event/4172/
Congratulations to Dr. Ben Wilson who successfully passed his PhD viva! 🎉
Ben's research focused on searches for heavy neutral lepton production via vector boson fusion @atlasexperiment.bsky.social and tau identification algorithms
Ben's research focused on searches for heavy neutral lepton production via vector boson fusion @atlasexperiment.bsky.social and tau identification algorithms
December 3, 2024 at 7:44 AM
Congratulations to Dr. Ben Wilson who successfully passed his PhD viva! 🎉
Ben's research focused on searches for heavy neutral lepton production via vector boson fusion @atlasexperiment.bsky.social and tau identification algorithms
Ben's research focused on searches for heavy neutral lepton production via vector boson fusion @atlasexperiment.bsky.social and tau identification algorithms
Last week I spent the day 1.1 km underground at the Boulby Laboratory exploring the future of dark matter and quantum technology in the UK. The lab is situated in an active Salt and Polyhalite mine in North East England which makes for an interesting commute and office wear! 🧑🔬⚛️👷♂️
November 25, 2024 at 4:28 PM
Last week I spent the day 1.1 km underground at the Boulby Laboratory exploring the future of dark matter and quantum technology in the UK. The lab is situated in an active Salt and Polyhalite mine in North East England which makes for an interesting commute and office wear! 🧑🔬⚛️👷♂️
I recently visited Daresbury Laboratory as part of an ongoing project on planning & development of a science lab 1.1 km underground in the North-East of England. 👷♂️
More on that soon, but most importantly here is the resident #sciencecat undertaking public engagement activities at Daresbury Lab
More on that soon, but most importantly here is the resident #sciencecat undertaking public engagement activities at Daresbury Lab
November 14, 2024 at 8:12 PM
I recently visited Daresbury Laboratory as part of an ongoing project on planning & development of a science lab 1.1 km underground in the North-East of England. 👷♂️
More on that soon, but most importantly here is the resident #sciencecat undertaking public engagement activities at Daresbury Lab
More on that soon, but most importantly here is the resident #sciencecat undertaking public engagement activities at Daresbury Lab
Oh hey 👋 looks like an uptick in activity here, so a short (re-)introduction!
I'm a #particlephysicist working at the Large Hadron Collider #CERN and new approaches to searching for #darkMatter using quantum sensors/ new materials. Follow for #science life, #physics chat, and occasional cats 🐈
I'm a #particlephysicist working at the Large Hadron Collider #CERN and new approaches to searching for #darkMatter using quantum sensors/ new materials. Follow for #science life, #physics chat, and occasional cats 🐈
November 14, 2024 at 7:37 PM
Oh hey 👋 looks like an uptick in activity here, so a short (re-)introduction!
I'm a #particlephysicist working at the Large Hadron Collider #CERN and new approaches to searching for #darkMatter using quantum sensors/ new materials. Follow for #science life, #physics chat, and occasional cats 🐈
I'm a #particlephysicist working at the Large Hadron Collider #CERN and new approaches to searching for #darkMatter using quantum sensors/ new materials. Follow for #science life, #physics chat, and occasional cats 🐈
Congratulations to Dr. Ellen Sandford @sandford_ellen on the successful defence of her PhD dissertation on direct dark matter detection with DarkSide and silicon photosensor development! 🥳🎉
November 20, 2024 at 12:17 PM
Congratulations to Dr. Ellen Sandford @sandford_ellen on the successful defence of her PhD dissertation on direct dark matter detection with DarkSide and silicon photosensor development! 🥳🎉
In the ALICE experiment cavern 50m underground at CERN -- one lonely chair contemplates the fundamental nature of existence
#LonelyChairsAtCERN
#LonelyChairsAtCERN
December 1, 2023 at 2:25 PM
In the ALICE experiment cavern 50m underground at CERN -- one lonely chair contemplates the fundamental nature of existence
#LonelyChairsAtCERN
#LonelyChairsAtCERN
In the @ALICEexperiment cavern 50m underground at CERN -- one lonely chair contemplates the fundamental nature of existence #LonelyChairsAtCERN
November 20, 2024 at 12:17 PM
In the @ALICEexperiment cavern 50m underground at CERN -- one lonely chair contemplates the fundamental nature of existence #LonelyChairsAtCERN
Dr. Kara Lynch (Manchester) discusses her research 'Measuring the shape of proton-emitting nuclei with laser spectroscopy' in today's Bohr Lunch Seminar
November 24, 2023 at 1:10 PM
Dr. Kara Lynch (Manchester) discusses her research 'Measuring the shape of proton-emitting nuclei with laser spectroscopy' in today's Bohr Lunch Seminar
Dr. Alice Hamer (Edinburgh) presents a summary of the UK-wide silicon photosensor production effort for the DarkSide-20k dark matter experiment in today's Bohr Lunch Seminar
November 3, 2023 at 1:17 PM
Dr. Alice Hamer (Edinburgh) presents a summary of the UK-wide silicon photosensor production effort for the DarkSide-20k dark matter experiment in today's Bohr Lunch Seminar
Many congratulations to Ellen Sandford, who has been awarded the John G Rutherglen Memorial Prize for her PhD research on direct dark matter detection! 🥳🔬🏆
gla.ac.uk/schools/physic…
gla.ac.uk/schools/physic…
October 13, 2023 at 3:46 PM
Many congratulations to Ellen Sandford, who has been awarded the John G Rutherglen Memorial Prize for her PhD research on direct dark matter detection! 🥳🔬🏆
gla.ac.uk/schools/physic…
gla.ac.uk/schools/physic…
For all operators we quantify how dark matter constraints are weakened in a xenon-experiment (example top left), an argon-experiment (example top right), and where xenon targets (bottom: green regions) or argon targets (purple regions) provide greatest sensitivity 🧵
November 20, 2024 at 12:17 PM
For all operators we quantify how dark matter constraints are weakened in a xenon-experiment (example top left), an argon-experiment (example top right), and where xenon targets (bottom: green regions) or argon targets (purple regions) provide greatest sensitivity 🧵
Astonishingly, for spin-DEPENDENT interaction models we find that once we account for the complete set of operators needed for gauge-invariance, argon-based targets have competitive sensitivity to xenon targets to such interactions, contrary to common wisdom! 🧵
November 20, 2024 at 12:17 PM
Astonishingly, for spin-DEPENDENT interaction models we find that once we account for the complete set of operators needed for gauge-invariance, argon-based targets have competitive sensitivity to xenon targets to such interactions, contrary to common wisdom! 🧵
For spin-independent #darkmatter interactions we analyse existing data and make projections for future experiments, finding the current constraints and future potential of experiments dramatically depend on the level of isospin-violation 🧵
November 20, 2024 at 12:17 PM
For spin-independent #darkmatter interactions we analyse existing data and make projections for future experiments, finding the current constraints and future potential of experiments dramatically depend on the level of isospin-violation 🧵
First, something quite surprising and not often-discussed was that the predicted energy recoil signatures of dark matter candidates on xenon/argon targets were strongly affected by the amount of isospin-violation, not just the overall interaction rate (which is often discussed)🧵
November 20, 2024 at 12:16 PM
First, something quite surprising and not often-discussed was that the predicted energy recoil signatures of dark matter candidates on xenon/argon targets were strongly affected by the amount of isospin-violation, not just the overall interaction rate (which is often discussed)🧵
Proton in a bubble chamber observed at CERN...
September 11, 2023 at 3:29 PM
Proton in a bubble chamber observed at CERN...
After examining a successful (congratulations Dr. Gary Robertson!) LHCb PhD thesis in Edinburgh last week, this week I've been CERN for meetings, training courses, and a sneak peek at the new Science Gateway open to the public from October -- looks great!
sciencegateway.cern
sciencegateway.cern
September 8, 2023 at 4:59 PM
After examining a successful (congratulations Dr. Gary Robertson!) LHCb PhD thesis in Edinburgh last week, this week I've been CERN for meetings, training courses, and a sneak peek at the new Science Gateway open to the public from October -- looks great!
sciencegateway.cern
sciencegateway.cern
For my inaugural bsky post, I would like to introduce Emmy, my Research Catssistant, who has been helping me prepare my latest #particlephysics paper draft...
August 15, 2023 at 1:15 PM
For my inaugural bsky post, I would like to introduce Emmy, my Research Catssistant, who has been helping me prepare my latest #particlephysics paper draft...
Today at #LeptonPhoton, @ATLASexperiment released results of a search for new states in X→μ⁺μ⁻+Υ(1S)→4μ decays, with intriguing results! 🧐 An unexpected excess of events is observed near 18 GeV in four-muon mass in 8 TeV data, but later 13 TeV data excludes this excess...
November 20, 2024 at 12:16 PM
Today at #LeptonPhoton, @ATLASexperiment released results of a search for new states in X→μ⁺μ⁻+Υ(1S)→4μ decays, with intriguing results! 🧐 An unexpected excess of events is observed near 18 GeV in four-muon mass in 8 TeV data, but later 13 TeV data excludes this excess...
With more than a day of travel to get here, plus jet lag ✈️, it's good to see a session has been scheduled in sympathy
November 20, 2024 at 12:16 PM
With more than a day of travel to get here, plus jet lag ✈️, it's good to see a session has been scheduled in sympathy
Fantastic to be in Melbourne this week representing @ATLASexperiment at Lepton Photon 2023 @lp2023monash both with some new results on the search for new exotic resonances (coming soon...!🌶️), and showcasing our current and future #OpenData 👨💻 offerings!
November 20, 2024 at 12:15 PM
Fantastic to be in Melbourne this week representing @ATLASexperiment at Lepton Photon 2023 @lp2023monash both with some new results on the search for new exotic resonances (coming soon...!🌶️), and showcasing our current and future #OpenData 👨💻 offerings!
We're planning the next phase of our @ATLASexperiment #OpenData release and want YOUR input to shape the future 👩💻 Fill out our survey:
https://cern.ch/atlasoutreachcensus
#OpenScience Take a look at our currently released data, software and documentation here! http://opendata.atlas.cern/
https://cern.ch/atlasoutreachcensus
#OpenScience Take a look at our currently released data, software and documentation here! http://opendata.atlas.cern/
November 20, 2024 at 12:15 PM
We're planning the next phase of our @ATLASexperiment #OpenData release and want YOUR input to shape the future 👩💻 Fill out our survey:
https://cern.ch/atlasoutreachcensus
#OpenScience Take a look at our currently released data, software and documentation here! http://opendata.atlas.cern/
https://cern.ch/atlasoutreachcensus
#OpenScience Take a look at our currently released data, software and documentation here! http://opendata.atlas.cern/