dark photon Archives

Dark SRF experiment at Fermilab demonstrates ultra-sensitivity for dark photon searches

Using superconducting radio frequency cavities, the project set stringent constraints on a theorized particle called the dark photon.

LHCb ramps up the search for dark photons

A handful of physicists have prepared the detector for a more sophisticated dark matter search.

Drumming up dark photons

An illustration of T-shirts that look like metal rock tees with logos resembling Metallica's, Iron Maiden's, and so on, except the text reads MACHOs, axions, WIMPS and so on.

A group of scientists is hoping to detect dark matter using a nanoscale drum.

Particle detector at Fermilab plays crucial role in Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment

One of the DUNE near detector's subdetectors, SAND, will detect neutrinos with an electronic calorimeter, which measures particle energy, and a tracker, which records particle momenta and charge. A second subdetector will use liquid argon to mimic the neutrino interactions in the far detector. The third will use gaseous argon. Working together, they will measure particles with more precision than other neutrino detectors have been able to achieve. Credit: DUNE collaboration

DUNE’s near detector, located at Fermilab, will take vital measurements of neutrino beam energy and composition before it reaches the experiment’s far detector in South Dakota. Its unmatched precision measurements will offer its own opportunities for the discovery of new physics.

Physics at tiniest scale could explain ‘impossible’ black holes

Until recently, scientists had never detected black holes in the “mass gap.” Now, particle physicists are exploring ideas beyond the Standard Model that could explain them.