{"id":116766,"date":"2020-12-07T11:22:55","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T19:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/mits-abracadabra-instrument-pulling-the-secrets-of-dark-matter-out-of-a-hat"},"modified":"2020-12-07T11:22:55","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T19:22:55","slug":"mits-abracadabra-instrument-pulling-the-secrets-of-dark-matter-out-of-a-hat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/mits-abracadabra-instrument-pulling-the-secrets-of-dark-matter-out-of-a-hat","title":{"rendered":"MIT\u2019s ABRACADABRA Instrument: Pulling the Secrets of Dark Matter Out of a Hat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mits-abracadabra-instrument-pulling-the-secrets-of-dark-matter-out-of-a-hat.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong> MIT grad student Chiara Salemi and Professor Lindley Winslow use the ABRACADABRA instrument to reveal insights into dark matter.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On the first floor of MIT\u2019s Laboratory for Nuclear Science hangs an instrument called \u201cA Broadband\/Resonant Approach to Cosmic Axion Detection with an Amplifying B-field Ring Apparatus,\u201d or ABRACADABRA for short. As the name states, ABRACADABRA\u2019s goal is to detect axions, a hypothetical particle that may be the primary constituent of dark matter, the unseen and as-of-yet unexplained material that makes up the bulk of the universe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIT grad student Chiara Salemi and Professor Lindley Winslow use the ABRACADABRA instrument to reveal insights into dark matter. On the first floor of MIT\u2019s Laboratory for Nuclear Science hangs an instrument called \u201cA Broadband\/Resonant Approach to Cosmic Axion Detection with an Amplifying B-field Ring Apparatus,\u201d or ABRACADABRA for short. As the name states, ABRACADABRA\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116766","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}