{"id":244621,"date":"2026-09-29T01:35:49","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T06:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/darkside-detector-puts-nuclear-dark-matter-to-the-test"},"modified":"2026-09-29T01:35:49","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T06:35:49","slug":"darkside-detector-puts-nuclear-dark-matter-to-the-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/darkside-detector-puts-nuclear-dark-matter-to-the-test","title":{"rendered":"DarkSide detector puts \u2018nuclear\u2019 dark matter to the test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/darkside-detector-puts-nuclear-dark-matter-to-the-test3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the DarkSide collaboration have unveiled results from a seven-year experiment that tested whether dark matter particles could exist as composites of smaller, elementary particles. While the search turned up no direct evidence of this \u201cultraheavy nuclear\u201d dark matter, results from the DarkSide-50 detector could lay the groundwork for future experiments, helping physicists work out whether dark matter has an internal structure.<\/p>\n<p>The research has been published in <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prd\/abstract\/10.1103\/r3zg-zlfg\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Physical Review D<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the DarkSide collaboration have unveiled results from a seven-year experiment that tested whether dark matter particles could exist as composites of smaller, elementary particles. While the search turned up no direct evidence of this \u201cultraheavy nuclear\u201d dark matter, results from the DarkSide-50 detector could lay the groundwork for future experiments, helping physicists work [\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-244621","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\/244621","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=244621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}