{"id":189811,"date":"2024-05-21T03:26:38","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T08:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/na64-uses-the-high-energy-sps-muon-beam-to-search-for-dark-matter"},"modified":"2024-05-21T03:26:38","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T08:26:38","slug":"na64-uses-the-high-energy-sps-muon-beam-to-search-for-dark-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/na64-uses-the-high-energy-sps-muon-beam-to-search-for-dark-matter","title":{"rendered":"NA64 uses the high-energy SPS muon beam to search for dark matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/na64-uses-the-high-energy-sps-muon-beam-to-search-for-dark-matter2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The NA64 experiment started operations at CERN\u2019s SPS North Area in 2016. Its aim is to search for unknown particles from a hypothetical \u201cdark sector.\u201d For these searches, NA64 directs an electron beam onto a fixed target. Researchers then look for unknown dark sector particles produced by collisions between the beam\u2019s electrons and the target\u2019s atomic nuclei.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NA64 experiment started operations at CERN\u2019s SPS North Area in 2016. Its aim is to search for unknown particles from a hypothetical \u201cdark sector.\u201d For these searches, NA64 directs an electron beam onto a fixed target. Researchers then look for unknown dark sector particles produced by collisions between the beam\u2019s electrons and the target\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189811","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\/189811","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}