New MIT detector will aid dark matter search
Friday, December 12, 2008 - 05:42
in Astronomy & Space
Several research projects are underway to try to detect particles that may make up the mysterious 'dark matter' believed to dominate the universe's mass. But the existing detectors have a problem: They also pick up particles of ordinary matter - hurtling neutrons that masquerade as the elusive dark-matter particles the instruments are designed to find...
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