{"id":117720,"date":"2020-12-28T14:22:17","date_gmt":"2020-12-28T22:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/searching-for-invisible-axion-dark-matter-with-a-new-multiple-cell-cavity-haloscope"},"modified":"2020-12-28T14:22:17","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T22:22:17","slug":"searching-for-invisible-axion-dark-matter-with-a-new-multiple-cell-cavity-haloscope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/searching-for-invisible-axion-dark-matter-with-a-new-multiple-cell-cavity-haloscope","title":{"rendered":"Searching for invisible axion dark matter with a new multiple-cell cavity haloscope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/searching-for-invisible-axion-dark-matter-with-a-new-multiple-cell-cavity-haloscope2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over the past few decades, many experimental physicists have been probing the existence of particles called axions, which would result from a specific mechanism that they think could explain the contradiction between theories and experiments describing a fundamental symmetry. This symmetry is associated with a matter-antimatter imbalance in the Universe, reflected in interactions between different particles.<\/p>\n<p>If this mechanism took place in the early Universe, such a particle might have a very small mass and be \u2018invisible. Subsequently, researchers proposed that the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/axion\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">axion<\/a> might also be a promising candidate for dark matter, an elusive, hypothetical type of matter that does not emit, reflect or absorb light.<\/p>\n<p>While dark matter has not yet been experimentally observed, it is believed to make up 85% of universe\u2019s mass. Detecting axions could have important implications for ongoing dark matter experiments, as it could enhance the present understanding of these elusive particles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few decades, many experimental physicists have been probing the existence of particles called axions, which would result from a specific mechanism that they think could explain the contradiction between theories and experiments describing a fundamental symmetry. This symmetry is associated with a matter-antimatter imbalance in the Universe, reflected in interactions between different [\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-117720","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\/117720","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=117720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}