- April 9, 2025, 3:30 pm US/Central
- Juan Estrada, Fermilab
- Pushpa Bhat
Over the past two decades, Fermilab has led the development of cutting-edge instrumentation based on low-noise silicon imagers. What began with the deployment of CCDs for the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) has grown into a broad and impactful program. Today, these technologies support a diverse range of scientific efforts—from direct dark matter searches and cosmic surveys to dark sector experiments in particle beams and the search for biosignatures on exoplanets. In this talk, I will trace the evolution of this instrumentation program and highlight the latest advancements in skipper-CCD technology and its emerging applications across multiple fields.