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  New ultra-sensitive instrument aims to detect hints of elusive dark matter particles Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-11-12 11:26 -0600
    Re: New ultra-sensitive instrument aims to detect hints of elusive dark matter particles jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-11-12 19:13 +0000

#532340 — New ultra-sensitive instrument aims to detect hints of elusive dark matter particles

New ultra-sensitive instrument aims to detect hints of elusive dark 
matter particles
> http://phys.org/news/2015-11-ultra-sensitive-instrument-aims-hints-elusive.html

> There is five times more dark matter in the universe than "normal"
> matter—the atoms and molecules that make up the familiar world. Yet,
> it is still unknown what this dominant dark component actually is. On
> Nov. 11 an international collaboration of scientists inaugurated the
> new XENON1T instrument designed to search for dark matter with
> unprecedented sensitivity at the Gran Sasso Underground Laboratory in
> Italy.
>
> Dark matter is one of the basic ingredients of the universe, and
> searches to detect it in laboratory-based experiments have been
> conducted for decades. However, until today dark matter has been
> observed only indirectly, via its gravitational interactions that
> govern the dynamics of the cosmos at all length-scales. It is
> expected that dark matter is made of a new, stable elementary
> particle that has escaped detection so far.


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Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> New ultra-sensitive instrument aims to detect hints of elusive dark 
> matter particles
>> http://phys.org/news/2015-11-ultra-sensitive-instrument-aims-hints-elusive.html
> 
>> There is five times more dark matter in the universe than "normal"
>> matter?the atoms and molecules that make up the familiar world. Yet,
>> it is still unknown what this dominant dark component actually is. On
>> Nov. 11 an international collaboration of scientists inaugurated the
>> new XENON1T instrument designed to search for dark matter with
>> unprecedented sensitivity at the Gran Sasso Underground Laboratory in
>> Italy.
>>
>> Dark matter is one of the basic ingredients of the universe, and
>> searches to detect it in laboratory-based experiments have been
>> conducted for decades. However, until today dark matter has been
>> observed only indirectly, via its gravitational interactions that
>> govern the dynamics of the cosmos at all length-scales. It is
>> expected that dark matter is made of a new, stable elementary
>> particle that has escaped detection so far.
 
Only looking for hints?
 

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Jim Pennino

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