{"id":222313,"date":"2025-09-23T04:29:34","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T09:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/the-gravitino-a-new-candidate-for-dark-matter"},"modified":"2025-09-23T04:29:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T09:29:34","slug":"the-gravitino-a-new-candidate-for-dark-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/the-gravitino-a-new-candidate-for-dark-matter","title":{"rendered":"The gravitino: A new candidate for dark matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-gravitino-a-new-candidate-for-dark-matter.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dark matter remains one of the biggest mysteries in fundamental physics. Many theoretical proposals (axions, WIMPs) and 40 years of extensive experimental searches have failed to provide any explanation of the nature of dark matter.<\/p>\n<p>Several years ago, in a theory unifying <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/particle+physics\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">particle physics<\/a> and gravity, new, radically different <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/dark+matter\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">dark matter<\/a> candidates were proposed: superheavy charged gravitinos.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a <a href=\"https:\/\/link.aps.org\/doi\/10.1103\/fm6h-7r78\" target=\"_blank\">paper<\/a> published in <i><i>Physical Review<\/i> Research<\/i> by scientists from the University of Warsaw and Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics shows how new underground detectors, in particular the JUNO detector starting soon to take data, even though designed for neutrino physics, are also extremely well suited to eventually detect charged dark matter gravitinos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dark matter remains one of the biggest mysteries in fundamental physics. Many theoretical proposals (axions, WIMPs) and 40 years of extensive experimental searches have failed to provide any explanation of the nature of dark matter. Several years ago, in a theory unifying particle physics and gravity, new, radically different dark matter candidates were proposed: superheavy [\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-222313","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\/222313","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=222313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}