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Scientists at the University of Sussex have disproved the existence of a specific type of axion - an important candidate «dark matter» particle - across a wide range of its possible masses.

That lack of evidence provided impetus to separate the search for dark matter from work on supersymmetry, Rosenberg said, so the newest version of the Axion Dark Matter Experiment is drawing substantial interest among researchers.

In 2015, Iwazaki theorised that FRBs were the product of axion stars hitting the magnetic fields of neutron stars, the corpses of stars several times the sun's mass.

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.

An intriguing aspect of axion - like particles is their ability to convert into gamma rays and back again when they interact with strong magnetic fields.

As China's import restrictions see levels of waste plastic rise in the UK, Keith Freegard, Director of Axion Polymers, argues that low - grade materials should be landfilled rather than burnt for energy.

New, rigorous constraints on the properties of axions have been imposed by an international team of scientists responsible for the nEDM experiment.

They show that the upcoming Square Kilometer Array and its precursors should have the capability to detect signs of axions across large parts of parameter space.

In a paper published May 2 in Nature Physics, the CERN Axion Solar Telescope (CAST) at CERN presented new results on the properties of axions — hypothetical particles with minimal interactions with ordinary matter that therefore could constitute some or all of the mysterious dark matter, which is five times more abundant than normal matter.

Not exact matches

«Axion is calling for the creation of greater demand for recycled materials in the UK following China's decision to restrict imports of waste paper and plastics.

For the first time, physicists are snooping on some of the likeliest hiding places for hypothetical subatomic particles called axions, which could make up dark matter.

The Axion Dark Matter eXperiment, started at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory before moving to the University of Washington, seeks the subtle signatures — just a trillionth of a trillionth of a watt — left by axions as they're snagged by a strong magnetic field.

The experiment, housed in a laboratory adjacent to his office at the University of Washington, is a supercooled, magnetized vacuum chamber equipped with a sensitive detector that listens for the microwave «ping» of passing particles called axions.

Previous experiments have searched for axions, but those efforts weren't sensitive enough to have a good chance of detecting the particles.

If axions exist, they are expected to interact with photons, particles of light, from the magnetic field.

While the new study came up empty, scientists scanned only a small range of frequencies, ruling out some possible masses for axions, from 2.66 to 2.81 microelectron volts.

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.

Scientists don't know what dark matter is, but axions, extremely lightweight particles that may permeate the cosmos, are one of the major contenders.

New research suggests that the oddity could hint at the presence of hypothetical particles known as axions.

Elsewhere in the issue, you can see how science is working on new breeding and distribution techniques to save the coral reefs; a way to gain a better understanding of dark matter through the search for whether axion particles exist; a probe into the cause and solutions for the toxic condition of social disconnection, also known as loneliness; and even how to elucidate the long - sought origins of how snakes got their slither.

He's been thinking about how to use all sorts of particles — including neutrinos and hypothetical entities called axions — to co

But, as with the preference for WIMPs over axions and sterile neutrinos, some physicists suspect the widespread distaste for modified gravity is at least partially due to the sociology of scientists rather than the scientific process itself.

If dark matter isn't made of WIMPs, could neutrinos or axions fit the bill?

Beyond WIMPs and dark sectors, sterile neutrinos and axions, there are even more exotic possibilities for dark matter, although they occupy the fringes of physics.

In the absence of WIMPs, the runners - up are axions, which behave more like an all - encompassing field than single particles.

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.

Nobody knows exactly what dark matter is, but one hypothesis is that it is formed of still - theoretical particles called axions.

Among the new studies, the most exotic scenario investigated was the possibility that dark matter might consist of hypothetical particles called axions or other particles with similar properties.

«If there are many axion stars in the centres, we expect that some of them collide with the black hole accretion disc,» says Iwazaki.

This means some of the gamma rays coming from NGC 1275 could convert into axions — and potentially back again — as they make their way to us.

It's crunch time for dark matter if WIMPs don't show If dark matter isn't made of WIMPs, could neutrinos or axions fit the bill?

However, cosmologists soon realised that the dark matter could be made of even more exotic things: supersymmetric particles such as the gravitino or photino, for example, or oscillating scalar fields such as the axion.

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

Beyond WIMPs and dark sectors, sterile neutrinos and axions, there are even more exotic possibilities for dark matter, although they occupy the fringes of physics, including «primordial» black holes, extra dimensions and the possibility that Einstein's theory of gravity is wrong in some way.

According to the theory, the sun is one of those places in which axions form.

A team of international scientists from the project CERN Axion Solar Telescope (CAST) at the European research center CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, including Prof. Dr. Horst Fischer from the Institute of Physics at the University of Freiburg, have set strict limits to the probability that axions turn into photons.

Presently the experiment is being redesigned to prove residual axions from the time of the Big Bang as well as particles of dark energy in the future.

Only after it is determined that axions turn into photons can researchers determine the portion of particles in dark matter.

The team has set the strictest of limits regarding the intensity in the interaction between axions and photons on this basis.

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

University of Washington physicists Leslie Rosenberg (right) and Gray Rybka examine the experiment package as it is positioned above the bore of a large superconducting magnet, two primary components of the detector being used in the Axion Dark Matter Experiment.

Axions, if they in fact do exist, are candidates for the makeup of cold dark matter that would act as that gravitational glue.

The microwave receiver can be fine - tuned to the axion mass, which also increases the possibility of detecting an interaction between axions and the detector's magnetic field.

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Nobody knows exactly what dark matter is, but one idea is that it is formed of theoretical particles called axions.

NRAO / CDL technology part of the hunt for the dark matter particle at the Axion Dark Matter Experiment.

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.