https://jais.andromedapublisher.org/index.php/JAIS/issue/feed 2025-02-16T13:24:26+01:00 Prof. Michael Tytgat jais@andromedapublisher.org Open Journal Systems <p>Journal of Advanced Instrumentation in Science (JAIS) is a new peer-reviewed open access journal specialized in advanced instrumentation both for experimental research in basic science and for technological developments and applications in different environmental and bioengineering fields. JAIS aims to span over a large variety of items, from new generation of gas and silicon detectors for particle and astroparticle physics to innovative sensors for environmental monitoring and medical diagnostic, also with laser driven technologies. Since the important role in the instrumentation development is related to the readout electronics and data processing, JAIS also intends to offer its platform to review frontier achievements in the area of microelectronics and machine learning algorithms. The goal is to provide the community of physicists and engineers involved in the above mentioned fields with a platform to publish informative summaries of important findings.</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">&nbsp;</p> https://jais.andromedapublisher.org/index.php/JAIS/article/view/548 2025-02-16T13:24:26+01:00 Konstantinos Nikolopoulos k.nikolopoulos@bham.ac.uk Patrick Knights p.r.knights@bham.ac.uk

<div class="page" title="Page 1"> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> <p>Elucidating the nature of dark matter is a key priority that would involve discovering new fundamental<br>physics and is essential for understanding the structure and evolution of the universe. Despite the decadeslong ever-more-sensitive searches, the particle content of dark matter remains elusive. Direct searches for dark matter candidates, to date, focused mainly on candidates in the 10 GeV to 1 TeV; however, more recently lighter candidates with sub-GeV mass have been brought to the spotlight. This is an experimentally challenging mass region, which remains largely uncharted. The spherical proportional counter is a new type of gaseous detector which exhibits several features making it ideally suited for exploring this mass<br>range. In this article, the invention and development of the spherical proportional counter are presented, its<br>applications in the search for particle dark matter and beyond are reviewed, and possible future directions<br>are discussed.</p> </div> </div> </div>

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