Dark Matter Experiments

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Feb 1998

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998stin...9945916.&link_type=abstract

Particle Physics Experiments Report, 1997, p. 65

Physics

Cosmology, Dark Matter, Elementary Particles, Weak Interactions (Field Theory), Scintillation Counters, Neutrinos

Scientific paper

A major unresolved problem at the interface of particle physics and cosmology is the identity of the non-luminous matter which is known to comprise 90% of the Mass Of Our own Galaxy and upto 99% of the Universe as a whole. There is also evidence that much of the dark matter may be non-baryonic, and thus could consist of relic stable elementary particles. Candidate particles include low-mass neutrinos, axions. or weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPS) such as the neutralino. An experimental programme to search for WIMPs. funded jointly, from particle physics and astronomy budgets, has been in progress since 1991. These experiments search for nuclear recoil events from elastic scattering of dark matter particles and are based on scintillator targets. In particular NaI and liquid Xe.

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