Oct 4, 2020
Last chance for WIMPs: physicists launch all-out hunt for dark-matter candidate
Posted by Derick Lee in category: particle physics
Over the coming months, operations will begin at three existing underground detectors — in the United States, Italy and China — that search for dark-matter particles by looking for interactions in supercooled vats of xenon. Using a method honed over more than a decade, these detectors will watch for telltale flashes of light when the nuclei recoil from their interaction with dark-matter particles.
Researchers have spent decades searching for the elusive particles — a final generation of detectors should leave them no place to hide.