If the dark matter were warm, it might require different search methods than those currently being applied in
underground lab experiments and at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland, Kaplinghat says.
Not exact matches
Meanwhile, an
underground Italian
lab experiment called the DAMA (DArk MAtter) Project sought evidence of dark matter particles colliding headlong into atoms right here on Earth.
The researchers, working on an
experiment called OPERA, beamed neutrinos through the earth's crust, from CERN, the laboratory for particle physics near Geneva, to Gran Sasso National Laboratory in L'Aquila, Italy, an
underground physics
lab.
And revised analysis of data from another pair of
experiments, XENON - 10 and XENON - 100, housed at the Gran Sasso
underground lab in Italy, now supports the lightweight signal (arxiv.org/abs/1304.6066).
In the
experiment, researchers will send a beam of neutrinos 800 miles through the Earth — from Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory near Chicago to Sanford
Lab, where a four - story - high, 70,000 - ton
underground detector will catch the particles.