Assistant Professor Deniz Aybas Tumturk from the Physics Department has been selected for support within the scope of 2232-B International Young Researchers Program by TUBITAK for three years with a total budget of 4,905,000 TL with her project titled “Searching for new particles with laboratory-scale experiments using quantum magnetic sensors”.
In this project, she will build a precision optical magnetometer that works at room temperature under zero external magnetic field, and will use this setup to search for a possible signal from an axion particle as a candidate for the dark matter. The built experimental setup can also generally be used to measure weak magnetic signals from different sources.