A wide range of astronomical evidence implies the existence of Dark Matter, but as yet the nature of this major component of the Universe is completely unknown. A leading candidate explanation is that Dark Matter is composed of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) formed in the early universe and gravitationally clustered together with the standard baryonic matter. Such WIMPs could in principle be detected through their collisions with ordinary nuclei in a sensitive target, producing observable low-energy (
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Published: January 20, 2015
Citation
Aalseth C.E., P. Agnes, A. Alton, K. Arisaka, D.M. Asner, H.O. Back, and B. Baldin, et al. 2015.The DarkSide Multiton Detector for the Direct Dark Matter Search.Advances in High Energy Physics Volume 2015.PNNL-SA-102086.doi:10.1155/2015/541362