Ancient rocks may hold key to detecting dark matter
From Forbes, April 29, 2021: Don Lincoln discusses a possible model of dark matter called a WIMP, short for weakly interacting massive particle.
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Futureproof extra: has a fifth force of nature been discovered?
News Talk (UK radio talk show), April 27, 2021: Dr Chris Parkes, Professor of Experimental Particle Physics at Manchester University, and Spokesperson for LHCb Collaboration discusses the Muon g-2 result.
Dark matter’s signature could be written in stone
A proposed dark-matter detection method would look for tracks of dark matter etched into billion-year-old mineral samples.
“A possible complete revolution”: will the muon lead to a new particle physics?
From Marianne TV (France), April 21, 2021: An interview on the Muon g-2 experiment result with Laurent Lellouch, CNRS research director at the Theoretical Physics Center and the Universe Physics Institute.
A Quantum Bit That Can Search for Dark Matter
From Pioneering Minds, April 20, 2021: Qubits will help advance the search for dark matter, as co-authored in a paper by Fermilab’s Aaron Chou.
High-energy physics opens its doors to the exabyte era
From IRIS-HEP, April 10, 2021: Allison Hall, Fermilab LHC Physics Center researcher, is quoted in this story on the hardware upgrade to CERN’s Large LHC that will significantly boost the proton beams’ intensity.
The extraordinary precision
From the Observador (Portugal), April 18, 2021: The Muon g-2 experiment confirmed a small discrepancy previously detected between the measured values and those calculated by the most advanced theory we have with the probability that this measure is a statistical error is 1 in 100,000.
U Chicago, Fermilab physicists build a quantum bit that can search for dark matter
From U Chicago News, April 13, 2021: Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and the University of Chicago have demonstrated a new technique based on quantum technology that will advance the search for dark matter, which accounts for 85% of all matter in the universe.
From the atmosphere to the underground
Read the travelogue of a xenon atom as it journeys from the air we breathe to a dark-matter detector a mile underground.
Sensitive qubit-based technique to accelerate search for dark matter
Quantum bits acting as particle detectors offer a fast and highly reliable means of solving one of the great mysteries in physics: the nature of dark matter. This new method promises a more efficient way to detect dark matter candidates by improving the experimental signal-to-noise ratio.