{"id":142530,"date":"2022-07-20T00:25:38","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T05:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/lhcb-ramps-up-the-search-for-dark-photons"},"modified":"2022-07-20T00:25:38","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T05:25:38","slug":"lhcb-ramps-up-the-search-for-dark-photons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/lhcb-ramps-up-the-search-for-dark-photons","title":{"rendered":"LHCb ramps up the search for dark photons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lhcb-ramps-up-the-search-for-dark-photons2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The LHCb detector was originally designed to study a particle known as the beauty quark. But now researchers are also using the experiment to search for dark matter:<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Researching subatomic particles is an involved process. It can take hundreds\u2014if not thousands\u2014of scientists and engineers to build an experiment, keep it up and running, and analyze the enormous amounts of data it collects. That means physicists are always on the lookout for ways to do more for free: to squeeze out as much physics as possible with the machinery that already exists. And that\u2019s exactly what a handful of physicists have set out to do with the LHCb experiment at CERN.<\/p>\n<p>The LHCb detector was originally designed to study a particle known as the beauty quark. \u201cBut as time has gone on, people have seen just how much more we can do with the detector,\u201d says Daniel Johnson, an LHCb collaborator based at MIT.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson, along with a team of around 10 researchers from MIT, the University of Cincinnati and CERN, are leading LHCb\u2019s search for dark matter, a hypothesized type of matter that, so far, has evaded detection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The LHCb detector was originally designed to study a particle known as the beauty quark. But now researchers are also using the experiment to search for dark matter: Researching subatomic particles is an involved process. It can take hundreds\u2014if not thousands\u2014of scientists and engineers to build an experiment, keep it up and running, and analyze [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142530","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\/142530","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}