dark matter

The Hunt for Ultralight Dark Matter

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The Hunt for Ultralight Dark Matter

If or when SLAC’s planned project, the Light Dark Matter Experiment (LDMX), receives funding—a decision from the Department of Energy is expected in the next year or so—it will scan for light dark matter. The experiment is designed to accelerate electrons toward a target made of tungsten in End Station A. In the vast majority … Read more

There’s a New Theory About Where Dark Matter Is Hiding

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There’s a New Theory About Where Dark Matter Is Hiding

But there may be opportunities to indirectly spot the signatures of those gravitons. One strategy Vafa and his collaborators are pursuing draws on large-scale cosmological surveys that chart the distribution of galaxies and matter. In those distributions, there might be “small differences in clustering behavior,” Obied said, that would signal the presence of dark gravitons. … Read more