{"id":113886,"date":"2020-10-04T22:23:36","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T05:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/last-chance-for-wimps-physicists-launch-all-out-hunt-for-dark-matter-candidate"},"modified":"2020-10-04T22:23:36","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T05:23:36","slug":"last-chance-for-wimps-physicists-launch-all-out-hunt-for-dark-matter-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/last-chance-for-wimps-physicists-launch-all-out-hunt-for-dark-matter-candidate","title":{"rendered":"Last chance for WIMPs: physicists launch all-out hunt for dark-matter candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/last-chance-for-wimps-physicists-launch-all-out-hunt-for-dark-matter-candidate2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over the coming months, operations will begin at three existing underground detectors \u2014 in the United States, Italy and China \u2014 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.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Researchers have spent decades searching for the elusive particles \u2014 a final generation of detectors should leave them no place to hide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the coming months, operations will begin at three existing underground detectors \u2014 in the United States, Italy and China \u2014 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 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}