Sentences with phrase «wimps collide»

One way to find them is to look for gamma rays, which should be produced when WIMPs collide and disintegrate.

These WIMPs collide in space, annihilating and decaying into ordinary particles, including electrons and their antimatter counterparts, positrons.

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

The experiment monitors germanium detectors, cooled to a fraction of a degree above absolute zero, for subtle vibration and ionization effects that would be produced by WIMPs colliding with germanium nuclei.

Not exact matches

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

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

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

All the experiments rely on the same principle: detecting WIMPs on the rare occasions when they collide with an atomic nucleus.

In some versions, colliding WIMPs either mutually annihilate or produce an intermediate, quickly decaying particle.

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

When a particle (such as a WIMP) collides with the detector, it creates crystal lattice vibrations (phonons) and releases electrons.

Physicists hope to detect it in the form of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) when they collide with ordinary matter in underground detectors.

WIMPs in this dense disc would be more likely to hit a detector but as they are keeping pace with Earth in its flight around the galaxy, they would collide with less energy than expected.

If it all sounds too radical, that may be a good thing: most direct detection experiments, which wait for an ordinary WIMP to collide with the nucleus of a heavy atom like germanium or xenon, have seen nothing (see «Going underground in search of dark matter strikes «-RRB-, for example.

Theorists have envisioned a wide range of WIMP types, some of which may either mutually annihilate or produce an intermediate, quickly decaying particle when they collide.

So, in theory, any gamma ray bursts coming from colliding dark matter particles — the Weakly Interacting Massive particles (WIMPs)-- should be clearly visible.