Posts Tagged ‘WIMP’s’

Dark Matter? Dark Energy? What’s the Difference?

Tuesday, December 7th, 2010

Chicago’s Dark Matter: WIMPs of the Underground is an exploration into whether or not the WIMP is the best candidate for Dark Matter. Register today for the lecture! – http://bit.ly/CDMWIMP

Dark–Matter Search Plunges Physicists to New Depths, University of Chicago News

Wednesday, August 11th, 2010

The team is deploying a 4–kilogram bubble chamber at SNOLab, which is part of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory in Ontario, Canada. A second 60–kilogram chamber will follow later this year. Scientists anticipate that dark matter particles will leave bubbles in their tracks when passing through the liquid in one of these chambers.