Dark matter experiment finds no evidence of axions

Saturday, March 30, 2019 - 09:30 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, […]

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