Funding Agencies

The Global Argon Dark Matter Collaboration is funded from institutions from 10 countries around the world including the United States, Italy, Canada, France, China, Brazil, Germany, Spain, Poland and the United Kingdom

United States

This work was supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) through Grants No. PHY-0919363,PHY-1004054,PHY-1004072,PHY-1242585,PHY-1314483,PHY-1314507,PHY-
1622337, PHY-1812482, PHY-1812547, PHY-2310091, PHY-2310046, associated collaborative
grants No. PHY-1211308, PHY-1314501, PHY-1455351 and PHY-1606912, as well as Major
Research Instrumentation Grant No. MRI-1429544. Additional support was provided by the
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, operated by Battelle for the U.S. Department of Energy
underContract No. DE-AC05-76RL01830.

Italy

Support was provided by the Istituto Nazionaledi Fisica Nucleare (INFN),through grants from
the Italian Ministero dell’Istruzione, Università e Ricerca, including Progetto Premiale 2013 and
Commissione Scientifica Nazionale II, as well as by the PRIN2020 project of the Italian Ministry o fResearch (MUR) (GrantNo. PRIN20208XN9TZ).

Canada

This work was supported by Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), Canada: the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, SNOLAB, and The Arthur B. McDonald Canadian Astroparticle Physics Research Institute.

France

Support was received from the French government from– 23–LabEx UnivEarthS (ANR-10-LABX-0023 and ANR-18-IDEX-0001).

China

This work was supported by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (113111KYSB20210030) and
the National Natural Science Foundation of China (12020101004).

Brazil

Support was provided by the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) under Grant No. 2021/11489-7 and by the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq).

Germany

Support is acknowledged from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany’s ExcellenceStrategy—EXC 2121: QuantumUniverse— 390833306.

Spain

Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology emblem, related to darkside and dark matter topics

The authors acknowledge support from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation
(MICINN)throughGrantsPID2022-138357NB-C22andPID2022-138357NB-C21 and the Atracciónde Talento Grant2018-T2/ TIC-10494.

Poland

This work was supported by the Polish National Science Centre (NCN) through Grants No.UMO-2022/47/B/ST2/02015 and UMO-2023/51/B/ ST2/02099, by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education (MNiSW, Grant No. 6811/IA/SP/2018).
This work was supported by the FNP IRA programmes: AstroCeNT (MAB/2018/7), funded from the ERDF, and Astrocent (FENG.02.01-IP.05-A015/25) co-financed by the European Union under FENG 2021–2027; and Teaming for Excellence grant Astrocent Plus (101137080) funded by the European Union with Complementary national funding from the MNiSW (MNiSW/2025/DIR/811). This project received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No. 952480 (DarkWave).

The United Kingdom

Support was provided by the Science and Technology Facilities Council, part of United Kingdom Research and Innovation, by the UKRI Future Leaders programme, and by The Royal Society.

The DarkSide Collaboration aims to unveil the nature of dark matter through liquid argon detector technology and innovative underground experiments. It is located at the Laboratori Nazional del Gran Sasso in L’Aquila, Italy.

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