Gabriel Bridges and postdoc Kaliroë Pappas on the Hunt for Dark Matter in Antarctica!

January 21, 2025

Columbia’s Astroparticle Physics Balloon Experimenters in Antarctica has been in full swing this past fall. Helmed by professors Chuck Hailey and Kerstin Perez, along with collaborators at other institutions the experiment is on the hunt for low energy anti-nuclei via the General Antiparticle Spectrometer, or GAPS,

Columbia news recently interviewed Columbia PhD candidate Gabriel Lewis Bridges and Columbia postdoctoral researcher Kaliroë M.W. Pappas, who arrived in Antarctica in November. For more about this incredible research please see the Columbia News article HERE