Sentences with phrase «detecting wimps»

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

But nobody has ever detected a WIMP or an axion.

No experiment has yet conclusively detected WIMPs, but CDMS has set the most stringent limits of any experiment on the strength of WIMP interactions with ordinary matter.

Had CDMS detected WIMPs and not extraneous background radiation, LUX researchers should have seen roughly 1600 events during the 85 days they took data, Gaitskell says.

Not exact matches

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

The surprising findings come as physicists wrestle with conflicting results from experiments designed to detect dark matter directly on Earth (see «The ongoing WIMP war»).

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.

But she's not concerned about the overall prospects for detecting dark matter, even though two other dark matter experiments — LUX in South Dakota and PandaX - II in China — also reported no signs of WIMPs this week.

But theory says that WIMPs should also brush shoulders with normal atoms occasionally, producing signals we can detect.

For axions to explain dark matter, they would need to occupy a relatively narrow range of masses and be far lighter than WIMPs, potentially making them even harder to detect.

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.

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

The LUX is designed to detect those rare occasions when a WIMP does interact with other forms of matter.

These extra dimensions can only be detected by observing WIMPS that have leaked into the four dimensions (three of space and one of time) that are familiar to us.

Although the hypothesized Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) is currently the leading candidate to explain the composition of dark matter, even the most powerful particle accelerators have so far failed to detect them.

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.

Therefore, most detectors have been built to detect particles the size of WIMPs, thought to weigh more than 100 times the mass of a proton.

They are known as WIMPs (for weakly interacting massive particles), and if they exist, these particles have masses tens or hundreds of times greater than that of a proton but interact so weakly with ordinary matter that they're difficult to detect.

Derenzo and his colleague wrote that despite overwhelming evidence for dark matter, recent large - scale experiments designed to detect nuclear recoils from dark matter particles with masses of WIMPs have not yet seen a definitive signal.