https://jais.andromedapublisher.org/index.php/JAIS <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> Andromeda Publishing and Academic Services en-US Journal of Advanced Instrumentation in Science 2753-3352 <p>Journal of Advanced Instrumentation in Science (JAIS) is an open access journal published by Andromeda Publishing and Education Services. The articles in JAIS are distributed according to the terms of&nbsp;<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the creative commons license CC-BY 4.0</a>. Under the terms of this license, copyright is retained by the author while use, distribution and reproduction in any medium are permitted provided proper credit is given to original authors and sources.</p> <h2 style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Terms of Submission</h2> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="justify">By submitting an article for publication in JAIS, the submitting author asserts that:</p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="justify">1. The article presents original contributions by the author(s) which have not been published previously in a peer-reviewed medium and are not subject to copyright protection.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="justify">2. The co-authors of the article, if any, as well as any institution whose approval is required, agree to the publication of the article in JAIS.</p> https://jais.andromedapublisher.org/index.php/JAIS/article/view/548 <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> Konstantinos Nikolopoulos Patrick Knights ##submission.copyrightStatement## 2025-02-16 2025-02-16 10.31526/JAIS.2025.548