We’re working towards building an atom interferometer for #DarkMatter and #GravitationalWave detection in a 100 m (then 1 km!) deep shaft - this week we visited a possible site at the Boulby underground lab Boulby Underground Laboratory in North Yorkshire. Thanks for having us! Science and Technology Facilities Council

Leonardo and Ankit from KCL Physics King's College London are at the Searches for Wave-Like Dark Matter with Quantum Networks conference in Mainz. Leonardo will present prospects for #DarkMatter searches using an atom gradiometer at 11am Thursday! indico.mitp.uni-mainz.de/event/265/cont…

Our theory teams KCL Physics and Cambridge University Cavendish Laboratory have a new #ArXiv paper! We’ve characterised the impact of gravity gradient noise on dark matter searches with #AtomInterferometry 🌌 arxiv.org/abs/2211.01854

Here we show how seismically-induced gravity gradient noise can be attenuated in very-long baselines (e.g. interferometers separated by km) using three or more interferometers at different depths within the same vertical shaft - this is called an atom multi-gradiometer

This design could allow very-long baseline experiments to probe large and unexplored regions of scalar ULDM parameter space in the sub-Hz regime 🔭

Our first community event is happening on Monday 20 March - register now to avoid missing out! ➡️qamss.cam.ac.uk/qamss-launch-e…

Interesting first day of talks - but somehow no women in today’s lineup of 16 speakers 😫 we should be doing better #WomenInSTEM

The inaugural QAMSS community event is happening right now - and we have already heard from a wealth of insightful speakers. Feeling motivated and inspired! 🌱 #QAMSS #quantum #interdisciplinary

A huge congratulations to Noam Mouelle, my PhD student on AION atom interferometry detector, and Cambridge University Boat Club for a fantastic day The Boat Race!

The AION team are ready with their posters and enjoying the first day of the IOP APP/HEPP conference! IoP Astroparticle Physics group We have posters from PhD students Noam Mouelle and Yu Zhi Cambridge University Cavendish Laboratory, and Kamran Hussain University of Liverpool Physics, and talks coming up this afternoon!

The High Energy Physics group in the Department of Physics has a vacancy for a Research Laboratory Technician (Electronics). The deadline for applications is 24th May 2023. For more details and to apply - jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/38338/ #laboratory #jobalert #technician

The collaboration is (almost) all back together again, this time hosted by King's College London KCL Physics! We had a beautiful view for our talks today and apparently our speakers are joining Taylor Swift among others as ‘performers’ in this building!

Congratulations to Samuel Lellouch who has been appointed Assistant Professor Uni of Birmingham🎉 Samuel has developed a large momentum transfer interferometer model allowing derivation of atom-optics requirements, and is now working on advanced pulse engineering techniques.

Our grad students have had a photo contest and we'll reveal the winners over the next few days 📸 Thanks to contest organiser John Carlton KCL Physics! In third place was Yu Zhi from Cambridge University Cavendish Laboratory with 'A binary system and “gravitational” waves: where are they?'

Second place in our grad student photo contest went to Elizabeth Pasatembou Elizabeth Pasatembou from Imperial Physics Imperial College London for her entry: 'Two beams from an acousto-optic modulator used to cool atoms to extremely cold temperatures' 📸

Our photo contest winner was David Evans @thundrnddragon from Imperial Physics Imperial College London with his picture of a 3D magneto-optical trap operating on the strontium blue transition. In the photo you can see the bright fluorescence from the atoms as they are laser cooled! 📸

We are 149 years old today! This day in 1874 we opened our doors to the world in Free School Lane. Our Development Director Prof. Malcolm Longair, who has been associated with the department for …years, captures the spirit of today in this video. #Physics youtu.be/ebOSXXYXwMQ

#Onthisday in 1874 the Cavendish Laboratory opened Cambridge University named after chemist and physicist Henry Cavendish. Since its opening 30 Cavendish researchers have won Nobel Prizes and have made huge discoveries including the electron and structure of DNA. Cavendish Laboratory

Measurements of CP asymmetries and branching fractions of B⁻ decays to two charm mesons arxiv.org/abs/2306.09945 - There is no evidence of CP violation in any of the analysed decays. Additionally, two ratios between branching fractions of selected decays are measured.

We recently had our latest consortium meeting, this time hosted by our RAL Space team at the beautiful Cosener's House in Abingdon. We enjoyed three days of technical discussions and updates on everyone's progress!