Lab News

Muon Telescope

Lola Escande - Jun 12, 2023

First Light!

Irina Babayan - Aug 12, 2021

Installation of the NEWS-G experiment was finally completed in early August

The Installation of the NEWS-G Detector

Victoria Millious - Jan 08, 2021

After months of meticulous operational efforts, and years of planning and anticipation, the NEWS-G detector has been carefully assembled underground at SNOLAB

Final Cleaning Underground

Philippe Gros - Nov 16, 2020

The copper sphere, dubbed SNOGLOBE, is given a final cleaning before NEWS-G detector installation starts up again at SNOLAB

NEWS-G’s Newest Detector

Victoria Millious - Sep 04, 2020

Introducing NEWS-G’s latest (non-spherical) detector: a Micromegas-based muon telescope!

Lead Shield Fabrication Process

Oct 16, 2018

The stainless steel shell of the 28 ton lead shield is now ready

Spheromania II

Jul 06, 2018

A third Spherical Proportional Counter has come to Kingston after spending a few years in China

Spheromania!

Nov 24, 2017

Mike and Jacob working hard in creating sphere detectors in the lab

First Results

Jul 13, 2017

First results from the NEWS-G direct dark matter search experiment at the LSM