To
search for dark matter with the help of antimatter sounds like something from a science fiction movie.
Not exact matches
For a number of years, this lab in a cavern has hosted the UK's search for dark matter, along with super-sensitive radio - isotope testing equipment for environmental and climate studies, for examp
For a number of years, this lab in a cavern has hosted the UK's
search for dark matter, along with super-sensitive radio - isotope testing equipment for environmental and climate studies, for examp
for dark matter, along
with super-sensitive radio - isotope testing equipment
for environmental and climate studies, for examp
for environmental and climate studies,
for examp
for example.
The way we go about this
search is to wait
for a particle of
dark matter to come into contact
with our device, which is basically a pot of liquid xenon [an element that is used, in gas form, in the very bright headlights of many new cars] sandwiched between two detectors.
Newly discovered galaxies would also present scientists
with more opportunities to
search for signatures of
dark matter.
«We did not detect significant emission
with the LAT, but the dwarf galaxies that DES has and will discover are extremely important targets
for the
dark matter search,» said Peter Michelson, spokesperson
for the LAT collaboration.
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.
In the
search for the mysterious
dark matter, physicists have used elaborate computer calculations to come up
with an outline of the particles of this unknown form of
matter.
Surface cleanliness is of fundamental importance in many areas and our group works
with NSF's Gravity Wave Observatory, LIGO (The Laser interfereomtric Gravity Observatory) based at Caltech and MIT, and
with two
Dark Matter search collaborations, COUPP (The Chicagoland Observatory for Underground Particle Physics) at the University of Chicago and Fermilab and CDMS (The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search) located in the Soudan Mine in Minn
search collaborations, COUPP (The Chicagoland Observatory
for Underground Particle Physics) at the University of Chicago and Fermilab and CDMS (The Cryogenic
Dark Matter Search) located in the Soudan Mine in Minn
Search) located in the Soudan Mine in Minnesota.
In their
search for the pervasive - yet - elusive particles of
dark matter, astronomers have tried to find galaxies
with much higher concentrations of the mysterious substance — it does not interact
with visible
matter at all, except through gravity, which is how scientists can theorize its existence.
A different experiment had already
searched for and ruled out the simplest version of such a particle — a 16.7 - MeV «
dark photon,» which would interact
with the known particles in the same way (albeit more rarely) as a normal photon, and would also interact strongly
with unknown
dark -
matter particles.
Searches for Dark Matter annihilation signatures in the Segue 1 satellite galaxy
with the MAGIC - I telescope
My students & I have done research
with and / or work at: Argonne National Laboratory's - Advanced Photon Source - Synchrotron Argonne National Laboratory's - Center
for Nanoscale Materials The Jefferson National Lab's Free Electron Laser Facility Fermilab:
Dark Energy Survey Camera, Cryogenic
Search for Dark Matter (CDMS) and COUPP
Dark Matter Bubble Chamber.
«Taken
with other Lab activities, including ADMX (axions), LUX / LZ (WIMPs) and
searches for primordial black holes, this new work gives LLNL a very strong portfolio of
dark matter research.»
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