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Scientists Are Hunting for the 'Dark Photon'—a Portal to the Dark Universe - C C - Feb 11, 2018
https://gizmodo.com/scientists-are-hunting-for-the-dark-photon-a-portal-to-1822877280
EXCERPT: It appears that the Universe is full of dark matter—around six times more of it than there is regular matter. It has obvious visible effects, like the way it bends light from distant galaxies. Despite dedicated searches, no signs of a dark matter particle explaining these effects have turned up. Perhaps instead physicists will be able to find some dark force, a portal into the dark world. Such a “dark photon” would be dark matter’s equivalent of a photon, the way that dark matter particles interact with one another. Scientists are searching for such a particle. It hasn’t turned up yet, based on new results from the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland. But the search isn’t over—and a lot of physicists are really excited about it...
MORE: https://gizmodo.com/scientists-are-hunting-for-the-dark-photon-a-portal-to-1822877280
RE: Scientists Are Hunting for the 'Dark Photon'—a Portal to the Dark Universe - RainbowUnicorn - Feb 12, 2018
(Feb 11, 2018 10:31 PM)C C Wrote: https://gizmodo.com/scientists-are-hunting-for-the-dark-photon-a-portal-to-1822877280
EXCERPT: It appears that the Universe is full of dark matter—around six times more of it than there is regular matter. It has obvious visible effects, like the way it bends light from distant galaxies. Despite dedicated searches, no signs of a dark matter particle explaining these effects have turned up. Perhaps instead physicists will be able to find some dark force, a portal into the dark world. Such a “dark photon” would be dark matter’s equivalent of a photon, the way that dark matter particles interact with one another. Scientists are searching for such a particle. It hasn’t turned up yet, based on new results from the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland. But the search isn’t over—and a lot of physicists are really excited about it...
MORE: https://gizmodo.com/scientists-are-hunting-for-the-dark-photon-a-portal-to-1822877280
