Ultrapure SiPMs and Associated Readout Electronics

GROUP LEADER
GROUP LEADER

Dr Masayuki Wada


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Dr. Wada is an experimental physicist, the leader of the Ultrapure SiPMs and Associated Readout Electronics group at AstroCeNT.
Dr Wada’s primary research interest focuses on the development of ultra-pure photo-detection devices based on Silicon Photomultipliers. The goal of this work is the detection of dark matter, especially Weak Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs). The main focus of Mr. Wada’s research is the DarkSide experiment, which is a dark matter direct detection experiment at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS).

THE SCOPE OF THE RESEARCH

The research group led by dr Masayuki Wada works on the development of ultra-pure photo-detection devices based on Silicon Photomultipliers for WIMP direct detection search and neutrinoless double beta decay search in collaboration with researchers abroad such as from Princeton University in the US and National Institute for Nuclear Physics, Italy. The group is also interested in applying our technologies earned in pure science to medical physics such as the Positron Emission Tomography scanner.