Sentences with phrase «light wimps»

In recent years, however, a few groups have reported signs of unexpectedly light WIMPs weighing less than 10 times as much as a proton.

By most accounts, the most credible hint of light WIMPs came in April.

Now, however, LUX researchers say their results refute the CDMS signal and the other hints of light WIMPs.

Not exact matches

The detector material is surrounded by arrays of photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) to capture the light from potential WIMP interactions.

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

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.

Xenon's attractive property is that it gives off a brief flash of light if a WIMP bumps into the nucleus of one of its atoms.

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

If WIMPs are very massive, there may only be one or two within the space of your clenched fist at any given moment; if they are very light, billions must pass through you each second.

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.

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.

In this model, WIMPs that crash into other WIMPs mutually annihilate and convert into gamma rays, the most energetic form of light.

Though far from established, the most likely dark matter candidates are huge particles called weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) or much lighter axion particles.

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

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.

For example, in 2008 Jonathan Feng and Jason Kumar, both then at the University of California, Irvine, showed how a phenomenon known as supersymmetry could produce a hypothetical class of particles much lighter and more weakly interacting than WIMPs.

The decaying theoretical underpinnings for simple WIMP models, paired with the growing list of empty - handed detection efforts, have led Feng and many others to propose that WIMPs are part of a more complicated picture: a hidden realm of the universe filled with varieties of dark particles interacting with one another through a suite of dark forces, perhaps exchanging dark charges through bursts of dark light.

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

While most would recommend you play the game alone with the lights turned off and the sound turned up, I am a huge wimp when it comes to horror.