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为了推动暗物质物理全国重点实验室的创新发展，现启动2026年度暗物质物理全国重点实验室（以下简称“实验室”）自主课题申报工作，鼓励并资助实验室相关成员聚焦暗物质与原子/中微子/电磁场等相互作用、暗物质的大尺度行为等方向，开展前沿科学研究、关键技术攻关等工作。
一、申报要求
1. 申请人根据指南自主选题，明确背景需求，提出研究目标、研究内容、研究路线、技术指标与考核方式。
2. 申请人一般应为具有博士学位或高级专业技术职称的研究人员。申请人应充分了解国内外相关研究领域发展动态，能主导所申请课题的研究工作。
3. 2026年度自主课题面向对象为实验室相关成员，资助标准理论研究一般不高于20万元/项，实验研究一般不高于30万元/项，研究期限为16个月；申请人应做好经费预算，据实申报；对申报材料的真实性负责，不得有违背科研诚信要求的行为。
4. 自主课题形成的研究成果归实验室所有，并应单位署名实验室（中英文） “暗物质物理全国重点实验室" (State Key Laboratory of Dark Matter Physics)。
5. 已承担实验室课题的申请人，须在完成课题结题验收后，方可申报新的课题。
二、申报方式
1.申报人按模板填报申请书（请点击链接下载模板：
https://pan.sjtu.edu.cn/web/share/e7565b6feb9b75b353b6eec0aa3863cc），于2026年5月20日前将电子版申请书（word版本和签字盖章版PDF扫描件）邮件发送至dm-phys-lab@sjtu.edu.cn（文件命名方式：自主课题-申报单位-姓名-题目），同时提交签字盖章版申请书至实验室管理办公室（双面打印、简单装订、一式3份），逾期不予受理。
2. 实验室收到申请材料后，将组织开展评审工作，通过后予以立项资助。
三、实验室管理办公室联系方式
地址：上海市浦东新区李所路1号S529
联系人：张老师，18217325905
【自主课题指南】
1-1 开发针对高纯锗、氪、氡测量的数据分析（模拟）和存数据库的AI自动化系统；构建PandaX实验“广义数据库”系统，包含运行慢控数据、低本底测量数据、探测器运行高阶数据、elog、DocDB等; 开发“实验运行智能体”，实现对PMT刻度、探测器响应刻度修正、PMT坏道监控、本底变化、异常事件监测和数据追踪等功能。
1-2 开发AI驱动的分析工具实现事例信号重建和探测器响应修正等功能，以进一步提升本底抑制能力和keV-MeV全能区的位置、能量、和散射历史分辨率。
1-3 开发PandaX低温液闪反符合装置的电子学系统；针对天体物理事件开发PandaX液氙探测器和外部反符合探测器的快速高效触发方案。
2-1 联合分析PandaX液氙探测器与外部反符合探测器的数据，以增强对多顶点事例的甄别能力，进而探寻无中微子双贝塔衰变相关新物理信号,从理论和实验展开研究。
2-2 重新系统性地评估双中微子双贝塔衰变中电子的能量与角度分布，并系统研究双电子能谱的潜在系统误差来源。
2-3 结合TRIDENT高能中子和暗物质相互作用的多信使物理以及亲轻子暗物质、暗光子及暗玻色子等更广泛暗区新粒子寻找展开理论与实验研究。
3-1 针对大质量轴子（eV量级）在传统“光穿墙”实验及现有激光尾波场方案中由于波矢失配导致失相、难以实现长距离相干累积的瓶颈问题，探索利用现有的强激光、等离子体实验装置，实现宏观相位匹配的新物理过程或介质调控手段。要求阐明克服大质量轴子相位失配的机理，评估其在拓宽轴子质量探测区间方面的潜力，并给出实验开展所需的关键激光参数与环境条件。
3-2 针对超强激光等离子体尾波场作用产生轴子的方案，实验探索米级的等离子体通道形成的方案和超强激光导引、以及尾波激发技术。探索可重频、可扩展米级等离子体通道产生方法，在李政道研究所实验室天体物理平台上建成光导引装置，开展光导引实验研究; 给出激光导引的品质，包括导引激光的空间模式演化，能量透过率等。
3-3 针对基于李政道研究所2.5PW强激光等离子体尾波场的暗物质轴子研究实验，设计高精度同步控制与多通道信号采集系统，以及高能粒子束和电磁辐射屏蔽系统。以激光脉冲触发为时序基准，通过可编程延时发生器对各关键节点进行超高精度的同步控制，确保激光触发、等离子体通道产生触发、单光子采集等信号获取在时序上严格匹配；针对实验可能产生的高能电子束、伽马射线、中子，以及电磁脉冲等辐射研究多层复合屏蔽设计方案，建成屏蔽装置，对人员和单光子探测器进行有效防护，提升实验安全和数据采集的信噪比。
4-1 JUST光纤传输特性研究与多目标光谱仪方案设计：研究JUST订制光纤动态焦比退化特性；设计微透镜光纤传输系统与多目标光谱仪方案；微透镜光纤系统性能测试与影响评估；建成便携式光纤焦比退化测量系统1套。
4-2 基于DESI的银河系暗物质分布精细测量：获取银河系暗物质分布的球对称约束；通过星流动力学测量银河系三轴暗物质分布；建立暗物质子晕扰动的统计探针。
4-3 基于DES(Dark Energy Survey)和Fourier_Quad方法的弱引力透镜精确测量：获取高精准度的弱引力透镜剪切信号目录和Mpc-Gpc尺度的投影暗物质密度分布；实现对剪切测量量的优化与运算速度提升。
4-4 星系团中暗物质的强引力透镜测量：利用现有数据约束星系团卫星星系中的暗物质分布；开发数据分析技术以充分利用欧几里得卫星、中国空间站巡天望远镜等获取的卫星星系数据以及4MOST、JUST等光谱数据。
5-1 与暗物质物理具有紧密关联的理论、模拟、分析等依赖先进计算技术的课题（仅支持计算或AI 服务相关经费）。申请书应明确说明拟通过该项支持实现的科学目标。此类课题的支持额度将在全部申请受理并评审后统筹确定。
Calls for proposals of lab-directed internal research projects for State Key Laboratory of Dark Matter Physics, 2026
To promote the innovative development of the State Key Laboratory of Dark Matter Physics, the laboratory (hereinafter referred to as "the Lab") is now calling for proposals for 2026 lab-directed Internal research projects. The initiative encourages and supports Lab-affiliated researchers in conducting cutting-edge scientific research and key technological research & development, with a focus on areas such as interactions between dark matter and atoms/neutrinos/electromagnetic fields, and large-scale behavior of dark matter.
Application Requirements
1. Applicants should independently select topics based on the guidelines, clearly define research backgrounds and needs, and propose research objectives, content, methodology, technical indicators, and evaluation criteria.
2. Applicants should generally hold a Ph.D. or senior professional technical title. Applicants should have a thorough understanding of domestic and international research developments in the relevant field and be capable of leading the proposed research project.
3. The 2026 internal research projects are open to Lab-affiliated members. The funding amount for theoretical research is generally no more than 200,000 CNY per project, and for experimental research no more than 300,000 CNY per project, with a research period of 16 months. The application should be truthful, with a detailed budget.
4. Research outputs generated from the funded internal research projects shall belong to the Lab. Relevant publications and research outputs shall include “State Key Laboratory of Dark Matter Physics” as an affiliation.
5. Applicants with ongoing approved projects that have not yet completed final review and acceptance are, in principle, not eligible to apply for new projects.
Submission Guidelines
1. Applicants shall fill in the application form according to the template (click the link
https://pan.sjtu.edu.cn/web/share/d201932775f51b5e9c30f290e47833d7 to download the template), and send the electronic version of the application (the Word version and the signed and stamped PDF scan) by email to dm-phys-lab@sjtu.edu.cn before May 20, 2026. Meanwhile, the signed and stamped hard copy of the application shall be submitted to the Management Office of the Lab (double-sided printing, in triplicate). Late submissions will not be accepted.
2. Upon receipt of application materials, the Lab will organize and conduct the review process. Approved projects will be formally established and funded.
Contact Information of Management Office
Address: Room S529, 1 Lisuo Road, Pudong New Area, Shanghai, 201210
Internal research project guideliness
1-1 Develop an AI-based data analysis/simulation/databasing system for low background assay systems， including HPGe, Kr and Rn systems. Construct the "General Database" for the PandaX experiment, which includes slow control operation data, low-background assay data, high-level detector operation data (background&performance), elog, DocDB, etc. Based on these, develop an "Experiment Operation Intelligent Agent" to assist PMT calibration, detector response correction, PMT malfunction monitoring, background variation tracking, anomaly detection, and background tracking.
1-2 Develop AI driven analysis tools including event reconstruction, data correction etc in order to optimize background suppression power and energy, position, and scattering history resolution in the keV-MeV full energy window.
1-3 Develop electronics for the cold LS veto electronics system. Develop smart and fast trigger scheme in the PandaX and veto detectors for astrophysical events.
2-1 To develop joint analyses of data from the PandaX liquid xenon detector and external veto systems, with the aim of enhancing the identification of multi-vertex events and improving sensitivity to new physics signals associated with neutrinoless double beta decay. Both experimental and theoretical approaches are encouraged.
2-2 To systematically investigate the energy and angular distributions of electrons in two-neutrino double beta decay, with particular emphasis on identifying and quantifying potential sources of systematic uncertainties in the double-electron energy spectrum.
2-3 To explore multi-messenger physics involving high-energy neutron and dark matter interactions in TRIDENT, and to extend searches to a broad range of dark-sector particles, including leptophilic dark matter, dark photons, and other dark bosons, through combined theoretical and experimental efforts.
3-1 Aiming at the bottleneck that heavy axions (at the eV scale) suffer from dephasing caused by wavevector mismatch in traditional "light shining through walls" experiments and existing laser wakefield schemes, which makes long-distance coherent accumulation difficult to achieve, this work explores novel physical processes or medium modulation methods to realize macroscopic phase matching based on existing high-intensity laser and plasma experimental facilities. It is required to clarify the mechanism for overcoming phase mismatch of heavy axions, evaluate its potential in expanding the detection range of axion mass, and specify the key laser parameters and environmental conditions required for experimental implementation.
3-2 Focusing on the scheme of axion generation via interactions between ultraintense laser and plasma wakefields, experimentally investigate the formation of meter-scale plasma channels, ultraintense laser guiding, and wakefield excitation technologies. Explore repeatable and scalable methods for generating meter-scale plasma channels; establish an optical guiding device on the Laboratory Astrophysics Platform of the Tsung-Dao Lee Institute to carry out experimental research on laser guiding. Characterize the performance of laser guiding, including the spatial mode evolution of guided lasers, energy transmittance, and other relevant indicators.
3-3 Targeting dark matter axion research experiments based on the 2.5 PW high-power laser–plasma wakefield facility at the Tsung-Dao Lee Institute, a high-precision synchronous control and multi-channel signal acquisition system, as well as shielding systems for high-energy particle beams and electromagnetic radiation shall be designed. Taking laser pulse triggering as the timing reference, ultra-high precision synchronous control of all key nodes should be realized via programmable delay generators to ensure strict temporal matching among the laser trigger, plasma channel generation trigger, single-photon acquisition and other signal acquisition processes. In view of high-energy electron beams, gamma rays, neutrons, electromagnetic pulses and other radiation potentially produced in the experiment, a multi-layer composite shielding scheme should be investigated and corresponding shielding facilities are constructed. These measures provide effective protection for operating personnel and single-photon detectors, and improve experimental safety as well as the signal-to-noise ratio of data acquisition.
4-1 Research on JUST fiber transmission characteristics and multi-object spectrograph design: Study the dynamic focal ratio degradation characteristics of JUST customized fibers; Design a microlens fiber transmission system and multi-object spectrometer design; Conduct performance testing and impact assessment of the microlens fiber system; Build a portable fiber focal ratio degradation measurement system.
4-2 Precise measurement of the Milky Way’s dark matter distribution based on DESI: Obtain constraints on the dark matter distribution of the Milky Way under spherical symmetry assumption; Measure the triaxial dark matter distribution of the Milky Way via stellar stream dynamics; Establish statistical probes for dark matter subhalo perturbations.
4-3 Precise weak gravitational lensing measurement based on DES (Dark Energy Survey) data and Fourier_Quad method: Obtain a high precision and high accuracy weak lensing shear signal catalog and the associated projected dark matter density distribution on Mpc-Gpc scales; Optimize shear measurement statistics and improve computational speed.
4-4 Strong lensing measurements of dark matter in galaxy clusters：using currently available data to constrain the dark matter distribution in cluster satellites；prepare analysis techniques aimed at fully exploiting upcoming data from satellites such as Euclid and CSST, and spectrographs such as 4MOST and JUST.
5-1 Projects in theory, simulation, analysis, and related areas that are closely relevant to dark matter physics and rely on advanced computational techniques are eligible to apply. Support for this category is limited to computational and/or AI service-related budgets only. The proposal should describe clearly the scientific goals with such budget. The amount of supports to these projects will be determined once we receive all proposals.
