Sentences with phrase «find axions»

Not exact matches

EVERY AXION HAS ITS DAY Physicist Gray Rybka of the University of Washington in Seattle and colleagues have created a detector sensitive enough to potentially find hypothetical dark matter particles called axions.

The findings, published April 20 in Physical Review Letters, exclude a small range of axion - like particles that could have comprised about 4 percent of dark matter.

«If we don't find the WIMP, theorists will just switch their bets to axions,» says Peter Graham, a physicist at Stanford University.

Based on the published work, which draws on data collected from 2012 - 2015, the team has found no evidence of solar axions.

However, because axions react so little — and the reactions they are likely to produce are so faint — finding them is tricky.

Efforts in the 1980s to find this particle, named the axion by theorist Frank Wilczek, currently of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, were unsuccessful, showing that their detection would be extremely challenging.

If axions are found, it would be a major discovery that could explain not only dark matter, but other lingering mysteries of the universe.

International research team evaluates measurements at the Paul Scherrer Institute and finds new constraints on the axion - gluon interaction strength...