Sam Wormley
2015-05-02 15:33:45 UTC
Video: Hunting for the WIMPs of the universe
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http://phys.org/news/2015-04-video-wimps-universe.html
<== Works
Dark matter is a scientific mystery. We can't see or touch it. But
physicists like Dan McKinsey theorize it must exist because, without
it, the universe would look quite different.
With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), McKinsey and
a team of scientists from across the U.S. and Europe are hard at work
on the Large Underground Xenon, or LUX, experiment.
Nearly a mile straight down an old mine shaft at the Sanford
Underground Research Facility in Lead, S.D., the team searches for
the existence of one possible type of dark matter called Weakly
Interacting Massive Particles, or WIMPs. Theory holds these WIMPs are
everywhere, all around us, all the time. With LUX, the team may now
have the right kind of instrument to detect them.
--<== Works
Dark matter is a scientific mystery. We can't see or touch it. But
physicists like Dan McKinsey theorize it must exist because, without
it, the universe would look quite different.
With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), McKinsey and
a team of scientists from across the U.S. and Europe are hard at work
on the Large Underground Xenon, or LUX, experiment.
Nearly a mile straight down an old mine shaft at the Sanford
Underground Research Facility in Lead, S.D., the team searches for
the existence of one possible type of dark matter called Weakly
Interacting Massive Particles, or WIMPs. Theory holds these WIMPs are
everywhere, all around us, all the time. With LUX, the team may now
have the right kind of instrument to detect them.
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of physics, news from the physics community, and physics-related
social issues.
