News

September 2025
- QROCODILE members visited the European Conference for Applied Superconductivity (EUCAS) in Porto, Portugal:
EUCAS Conference 2025
- Multiple news articles about the publication of the paper and QROCODILE:
QROCODILE experiment advances search for dark matter using superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (PHYS.org)

Breakthrough in the search for light dark matter: QROCODILE project sets new global boundaries (hayadan.com)
Device Searches for light Dark Matter (MyScience.ch)

A breakthrough was achieved in the search for dark matter (Hebrew) (ynet.co.il)

- QROCODILE got featured in a News article from University of Zurich:
UZH-Detektor sucht nach sehr leichter Dunkler Materie im Universum (German) (news.uzh.ch)

- Prof. Titus Neupert shared an article with Sciences et Avenir:
Titus Neupert, chercheur de matière noire : "C'est un des plus grands puzzles de l'astrophysique et de la cosmologie" (French) (sciencesetavenir.fr)

August 2025
- Paper is published:
Publication in Physical Review Letters

- QROCODILE is featured in an article in Physics Magazine:
New Device for Detecting Lightweight Dark Matter

- QROCODILE was mentioned in a talk by Suerfu Burkhant at TAUP2025:
From Electrons to Phonos: Experimental Frontiers of Low- mass Dark Matter Searches

July 2025

Letter has been accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters.

December 2024

We present the first results from QROCODILE. New world-leading constraints on the interaction of sub-MeV dark matter particles with masses as low as 30keV.
arXiv

November 2024

First public poster presentation of the QROCODILE collaboration at the Single Photon Workshop in Edinburgh, Scotland.
SPW2024 Abstract book

Presentations and Posters

 - Single Photon Workshop 2024 in Edinburgh, Scotland

- MaNEP Conference 2023 in Les Diablerets, Switzerland

- EUCAS Conference 2025 in Porto, Portugal
EUCAS Conference 2025