Dark Matter Researchers Still in the Dark as Underground Search Returns Uncertain Results
Thursday, December 17, 2009 - 20:21
in Astronomy & Space
A hotly anticipated announcement regarding a possible signature of dark matter delivered some grist for the physics mill Thursday but failed to produce the blockbuster result some had predicted. In a Webcast talk from Stanford University, Jodi Cooley , a particle physicist at Southern Methodist University, presented the latest results from the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search 2 (CDMS-2) , a series of detectors buried deep underground in a former iron mine in northern Minnesota. CDMS-2, she said, detected two signals that fit the bill for the passage of dark matter particles, but other possibilities could not be ruled out. [More]