Resumen de Ready, steady, go find dark matter
Field talks about his search for dark matter. DEAP, the Dark matter Experiment using Argon Pulse-shape discrimination, is based on the theory that dark matter is a weakly interacting massive particle. These antisocial WIMPs are difficult to detect because they are, as the name suggests, unwilling to play with other particles. However, physicists hope that the interactions are just rare, rather than non-existent. To help shield the detector from cosmic rays, which can mimic WIMPs, DEAP is located in the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, two kilometers beneath the frozen Canadian wasteland in the deepest area of an active nickel mine. At the end of April, it will join other underground detectors worldwide in the race to find dark matter.
