Sentences with phrase «wimps striking»

There, shielded from most sources of contaminating radiation, researchers have spent more than a year's worth of time looking for flashes of light emanating from WIMPs striking xenon nuclei.

There, shielded from most sources of contaminating noise, researchers have spent more than a year's worth of time looking for flashes of light emanating from WIMPs striking xenon nuclei.

If a WIMP strikes a xenon nucleus with the LUX detector, the recoiling nucleus should produce telltale flashes of light.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

Build Strike comes with the BGM «wimp ft. Lil» Fang (from FAKY)».