SuperCDMS physicists are testing a way to amp up dark matter vibrations to help them search for lighter particles.
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From STFC, July 17, 2018: Rutherford Appleton Laboratory delivers components for the LZ experiment in the Sanford Underground Research Laboratory.
From Le Scienze, July 16, 2018: Fermilab scientist Dan Hooper is quoted in this Italian article on new research to find dark matter in stones.
From Physics World, July 10, 2018: Fermilab scientist Dan Hooper comments on new research that lends further support to the idea that a detection of surprisingly strong absorption by primordial hydrogen gas, reported earlier this year, could be evidence of dark matter.
Bowring’s work at the frontier of dark matter research earns him a 2018 Early Career Research Award.
From APS News, July 2018: Scientists are looking down a number of avenues for dark matter. Fermilab’s Daniel Bowring and Dan Hooper discuss the search, and members of SuperCDMS, ADMX and other collaborations are on the hunt.
From FAPESP’s Pesquisa, March 2018: International researchers are constantly looking for lighter particles in the hope of finding dark matter, including at the DarkSide-50 experiment, CDMS and the Dark Energy Survey.