Dark matter experiment finds no evidence of axions
Thursday, March 28, 2019 - 16:30
in Physics & Chemistry
Physicists from MIT and elsewhere have performed the first run of a new experiment to detect axions—hypothetical particles that are predicted to be among the lightest particles in the universe. If they exist, axions would be virtually invisible, yet inescapable; they could make up nearly 85 percent of the mass of the universe, in the form of dark matter.