{"id":234064,"date":"2026-03-25T23:06:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T04:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/new-ultra-fast-particle-detector-could-help-unmask-dark-matter"},"modified":"2026-03-25T23:06:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T04:06:13","slug":"new-ultra-fast-particle-detector-could-help-unmask-dark-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/new-ultra-fast-particle-detector-could-help-unmask-dark-matter","title":{"rendered":"New ultra-fast particle detector could help unmask dark matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-ultra-fast-particle-detector-could-help-unmask-dark-matter.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The CMS experiment at CERN is building a new detector that will unravel the chaotic particle collisions at the Large Hadron Collider, helping scientists identify particles based on their speeds.<\/p>\n<p>What if Olympic officials could record sprinters\u2019 times only to the nearest minute? \u201cWe would know who started the race, and who finished the race, but that\u2019s it,\u201d said Bryan Cardwell, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Virginia. \u201cThere\u2019s no way to know who arrived first and who arrived last.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cardwell and his colleagues on the CMS experiment are currently tackling a similar problem. The CMS experiment records the tracks and properties of subatomic particles created by the Large Hadron Collider, the world\u2019s most powerful particle accelerator. As it stands, physicists get a picture of all the particles produced in a collision, but they have insufficiently detailed information about when the particles were produced or how fast they were traveling, making it difficult to tell them apart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CMS experiment at CERN is building a new detector that will unravel the chaotic particle collisions at the Large Hadron Collider, helping scientists identify particles based on their speeds. What if Olympic officials could record sprinters\u2019 times only to the nearest minute? \u201cWe would know who started the race, and who finished the race, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234064","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\/234064","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}