For dark matter signals, just follow the sun

• Autores: Katia Moskvitch
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2951, 2014, pág. 12
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Benjamin Safdi of Princeton University and his colleagues note something that all experiments have neglected: the sun. As WIMPs stream through the solar system, the suns gravity bends their trajectories, focusing the streaming particles on a particular location in Earth's orbit. This effect can shift the date of the maximum number of collisions by anything from a few days up to several months, depending on the WIMPs' mass and speed.