{"id":89740,"date":"2019-04-19T12:02:21","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T19:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/scientists-invent-way-to-trap-mysterious-dark-world-particle-at-large-hadron-collider"},"modified":"2019-04-19T12:02:21","modified_gmt":"2019-04-19T19:02:21","slug":"scientists-invent-way-to-trap-mysterious-dark-world-particle-at-large-hadron-collider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/scientists-invent-way-to-trap-mysterious-dark-world-particle-at-large-hadron-collider","title":{"rendered":"Scientists invent way to trap mysterious \u2018dark world\u2019 particle at Large Hadron Collider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-invent-way-to-trap-mysterious-dark-world-particle-at-large-hadron-collider2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now that they\u2019ve identified the Higgs boson, scientists at the Large Hadron Collider have set their sights on an even more elusive target.<\/p>\n<p>All around us is <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/dark+matter\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">dark matter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/dark+energy\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">dark energy<\/a>\u2014the invisible stuff that binds the galaxy together, but which no one has been able to directly detect. \u201cWe know for sure there\u2019s a dark world, and there\u2019s more energy in it than there is in ours,\u201d said LianTao Wang, a University of Chicago professor of physics who studies how to find signals in large particle accelerators like the LHC.<\/p>\n<p>Wang, along with scientists from the University and UChicago-affiliated Fermilab, think they may be able to lead us to its tracks; in a paper published April 3 in <i>Physical Review Letters<\/i>, they laid out an innovative method for stalking dark matter in the LHC by exploiting a potential particle\u2019s slightly slower speed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-04-scientists-mysterious-dark-world-particle.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that they\u2019ve identified the Higgs boson, scientists at the Large Hadron Collider have set their sights on an even more elusive target. All around us is dark matter and dark energy\u2014the invisible stuff that binds the galaxy together, but which no one has been able to directly detect. \u201cWe know for sure there\u2019s a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89740","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\/89740","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}