On Monday 26th February we had a MasterClass at the Liceo Galvani in Bologna on the direct search of Dark Matter, organized by the CC3M project called Dark, with the joint involvement of researchers of the DarkSide and XENON experiments: for INFN-Bologna, Pietro Di Gangi, Marco Garbini, Luigi Pio Rignanese e Marco Selvi.
About 50 students of the Liceo Scientifico Galvani and Fermi, after attending a few introductory lectures on Dark Matter and the detectors, analysed data of the past DarkSide-50 and XENON100 (to whom we inserted also some fake WIMP events) applying selection cuts, and presenting at the end their results to the other classmates, as if it was a real scientific conference.
At the same time, other students from various italian cities (Cagliari, Genova, Roma, Catania e L’Aquila) were involved in similar activities: at 11:30 we had a Zoom teleconference among all the various involved sites, with the presence of researchers of XENONnT from the underground Gran Sasso laboratory, and of DarkSide from a clean room in Naples.