THE DARK MATTER DERBY.
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| Title: | THE DARK MATTER DERBY. (cover story) |
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| Authors: | HADHAZY, ADAM (AUTHOR) |
| Source: | Discover. Dec2019, Vol. 40 Issue 9, p40-47. 8p. 9 Color Photographs, 1 Black and White Photograph. |
| Subjects: | Weakly interacting massive particles, Axions, Dark matter, Hadrons, Strong interactions (Nuclear physics), Weak interactions (Nuclear physics), Neutrinos, Cosmic background radiation |
| Abstract: | And many physicists expected that the Large Hadron Collider - the most powerful particle accelerator ever built - would produce heavy, novel particles, including WIMPs. Although the individual particles have a ridiculously low mass, the universe-forming Big Bang could have churned out axions in dizzying abundance - enough, in fact, to constitute all the dark matter in the cosmos. Along with Yonit Hochberg at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Murayama recently helped develop the SIMP (or strongly interacting massive particles), a whole new breed of dark matter particle. To catch any fleeting axions, researchers at the Axion Dark Matter eXperiment at the University of Washington (top) cool a cylinder to nearly absolute zero (left) before it emits a strong magnetic field, which should transform the theoretical dark matter particles into radio waves. [Extracted from the article] |
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| Abstract: | And many physicists expected that the Large Hadron Collider - the most powerful particle accelerator ever built - would produce heavy, novel particles, including WIMPs. Although the individual particles have a ridiculously low mass, the universe-forming Big Bang could have churned out axions in dizzying abundance - enough, in fact, to constitute all the dark matter in the cosmos. Along with Yonit Hochberg at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Murayama recently helped develop the SIMP (or strongly interacting massive particles), a whole new breed of dark matter particle. To catch any fleeting axions, researchers at the Axion Dark Matter eXperiment at the University of Washington (top) cool a cylinder to nearly absolute zero (left) before it emits a strong magnetic field, which should transform the theoretical dark matter particles into radio waves. [Extracted from the article] |
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| ISSN: | 02747529 |
