Hunting for WIMPs

• Autores: Leah Crane
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3144, 2017, págs. 28-29
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • When a WIMP passes through XENONIT, the largest liquid xenon detector in the world, and hits xenon atoms, it will free electrons and create bursts of light. Even though 100,000 particles of dark matter are thought to travel through each square centimeter of the detector every second, none has yet been observed. This means that if dark matter realty is made out of WIMPs, those particles almost never interact with normal matter, instead passing right through like a ghostly reminder that over 80% of matter in the universe remains dark and mysterious to us.