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Looking for dark matter differently

22 Apr 2024 Isabelle Dumé
looking for frequent interactions between nuclei in a detector and low-energy dark matter
The proposed new dark matter detection method would look for frequent interactions between nuclei in a detector and low-energy dark matter that may be present in and around Earth. (Right) A conventional direct detection experiment looks for occasional recoils from dark matter scattering. Courtesy: Anirban Das, Noah Kurinsky and Rebecca Leane
Dark matter makes up about 85 percent of the universe’s total matter, and cosmologists believe it

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