Sentences with phrase «wimp particles»

The putative mass of the WIMP particles that CoGeNT possibly has detected ranges from six to 10 billion electron volts, or approximately seven times the mass of a proton.

«This information may help us place limits on how often WIMP particles collide or decay.»

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The main contender for the substance is a type of hypothetical particle known as a «weakly interacting massive particle» (WIMP).

In such «direct» detection experiments, a WIMP collision would cause these charged particles to recoil, producing light that we can observe.

If the WIMP hypothesis is correct, dark matter particles could be detected through their scattering off atomic nuclei or electrons on Earth.

Dark Matter is believed to be made of Weak Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs!)

At the same time, physicists are trying to create wimps directly at particle accelerators like the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva.

Theory points to dark matter being made of so - far - unseen weakly interacting massive particles, known as WIMPs.

But the most commonly proposed type of dark matter particles, weakly interacting massive particles, or WIMPs, have no such way to lose energy.

Some of those WIMPs would then disappear when two of them collided and annihilated each other to produce two ordinary particles.

In abandoned mines in Minnesota and Ontario, researchers have built WIMP detectors designed to pick up the weak response when a dark particle strikes an ordinary atom.

Dark matter is not necessarily composed of WIMPs — theorists have identified a host of other possible dark - matter particles — but they are the leading candidates because their presence would close a loophole in the reigning theory of particle physics, called the standard model.

In fact, a particle with some properties opposite to those of physicists» current favorite dark matter candidate — the weakly interacting massive particle, or WIMP — would do just as good a job at explaining the stuff, a quartet of theorists says.

An international team of physicists is preparing XENON100, a simple experiment with a huge ambition: to record the moment when a bit of dark matter — known as a weakly interacting massive particle, or WIMP — smacks into the nucleus of an atom of liquid xenon, triggering a flash of light and an electric charge.

The LHC has just the right energy to search for a hypothetical dark particle called a WIMP, or weakly interacting massive particle.

Most past searches for dark matter particles have focused on a different candidate particle, known as a weakly interacting massive particle, or WIMP.

The «WIMP wars» have raged since 1998, when the DAMA experiment in the Gran Sasso lab in Italy claimed its detector was sparkling with particles that could be WIMPs.

When he re-analysed the CoGeNT data for WIMPs of lower energies too, he found a signal that might be consistent with particles of dark matter (arxiv.org/abs/1204.3559).

A particle called the neutralino, for instance, is a type of WIMP that's a perfect candidate for dark matter in part because it doesn't interact with other particles much, and that would explain why nobody has yet detected it.

It's probably a relic particle from the Big Bang, a member of a family of particles that we've named weakly interacting massive particles, or WIMPs.

A vast water tank blocks unwanted particles so the XENON1T experiment in Italy can seek out elusive WIMPS — the particles that may make up dark matter

The more gently the particle touches the xenon, the more likely that it's a WIMP.

The results back up intriguing models which say dark matter could be akin to normal matter in that it could be made of many kinds of particle, with low - mass WIMPs only one component.

While the nature of dark matter — which makes up 90 per cent of the matter in the universe — is unknown, physicists think it is made of weakly interacting massive particles, or WIMPs.

Before the recent finding, some theorists had speculated that the Higgs hadn't shown up yet because it decayed into two dark matter particles, or WIMPs (weakly interacting massive particles), which would be invisible to the LHC's detectors.

Several experiments are focused on the search for one likely dark matter candidate: weakly interacting massive particles, or WIMPs (SN: 11/12/16...

Several experiments are focused on the search for one likely dark matter candidate: weakly interacting massive particles, or WIMPs (SN: 11/12/16, p. 14).

The world's most sensitive dark matter detector is poised to join the hunt for WIMPs, the world's most elusive particles

The rock blocks cosmic rays — high - energy particles from space that could mimic a WIMP's arrival.

Many supersymmetry theories predict the lightest superpartner would be a stable, neutral, weakly interacting particle — that is, a WIMP.

One likely dark matter culprit is a WIMP, or weakly interacting massive particle, which could show up in the LHC.

A particle that interacts via gravity and the weak force but not with photons fits the bill — and that is a WIMP.

So they plump for a model in which the brown dwarfs revealed by microlensing are part of the relatively small but heavy spheroid, while the even heavier extended dark halo is made up of the more exotic particles variously known as WIMPs or cold dark matter.

When WIMPs collide they should annihilate, shattering into other particles.

The mechanism for this asymmetry is still unclear, but if something similar happened for dark matter, it should be made of lightweight particles of about 5 to 10 gigaelectronvolts — just below what WIMP detectors can see.

With classical WIMPs in a bind, theorists have started expanding their descriptions of the particle, creating a sprawling landscape of WIMP - like alternatives.

Most of the WIMPs would collide with and annihilate one another at relativistic speeds, producing ordinary particles as a result.

On the other, they have ruled out some of the simplest and most cherished WIMP models, raising fresh fears that the long - postulated particles might be a multidecadal detour in the search for dark matter.

«These particles result in the same amount of dark matter we see today but they aren't WIMPs,» Feng says.

The leading theoretical candidates are weakly interacting massive particles, or WIMPs, which should occasionally collide with ordinary atoms and create a telltale signal.

After just a few more upgrades, WIMP hunters will hit this limit and the desired particles may no longer be detectable.

But alternative explanations have not been ruled out, and other detection techniques have yet to pan out — like waiting for a WIMP to smack into an underground detector such as LUX in South Dakota (pictured above) or creating one at a particle accelerator, for example.

In the absence of WIMPs, the runners - up are axions, which behave more like an all - encompassing field than single particles.

Because of uncertainties over the exact mass and interaction strength of these elusive particles, the WIMP search space spans eight orders of magnitude.

Called WIMPs (weakly interacting massive particles), these subatomic shrinking violets may simply be better at hiding than physicists thought when they first predicted them more than 30 years ago.

In the simulation, dark matter takes the form of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles, or WIMPS, now widely regarded as the leading candidate of what dark matter could be.

While the results did not detect dark matter particles — known as «weakly interacting massive particles» or «WIMPs» — the combination of record low radioactivity levels with the size of the detector implies an excellent discovery potential in the years to come.

The goal of CDMS is to hunt down another physics acronym: WIMPs, or weakly interacting massive particles.

The ratio of charge to heat tells researchers whether the particle struck the nucleus, and therefore might be a WIMP, or if it is just a rogue electron or some other familiar particle that is simply stirring up the atomic neighborhood.

The leading candidate is a WIMP, or weakly - interacting massive particle, that was produced in the big bang and has been clumping up and seeding structures such as galaxies ever since.