...may be snared by explosive mini-detectors

• Autores: Lisa Grossman
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2964, 2014, pág. 10
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Enzyme ice cubes and nanoexplosives may be people's best bets for making direct contact with dark matter, the stuff that reputedly makes up most of the mass of the universe. The strongest indirect sign of dark matter comes from the center of the Milky Way. A gamma-ray halo seems to be all that is left from collisions between hypothetical particles called WIMPS. These weakly interacting massive particles are the leading candidates for dark matter. But if the gamma-ray signal is real, the WIMP creating it is much heavier than the one tentatively seen in existing detectors.