“We have to expand our search and now we can.” Scientists intend to release a powerful new weapon in hunting in dark material

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Scientists are preparing to release a powerful new weapon, Hunt for Dark Mater, a mysterious material that makes up about 85% of the Things in the Universe. As with the stereotypical supervillain, the super weapon, this new Dark Mater detector is hidden through a mile deep under the French Alps.

This very sensitive detector developed by an international team of researchers, including scientists at Johns Hopkins University, will expand the search for potential dark particles above the current parameters. Thus, this could provide evidence that there are some dark material candidate particles, or the detector could help reject some of the suspects.

This evidence for certain candidates for certain candidates may find new particles that are less mass than many current Dark Mater candidates. Or, as a team member and Johns Hopkins researcher Danielle Norcini says, “Wimpier or Wimps (weakly interacted with massive particles)”.

“Dark material is one of the most important ingredients forms our universe, and one of the biggest cosmological secrets,” the Norful report said. “Our predominant theories about the nature of the dark matter do not produce results, even after a study of decades.

“We have to expand our search and now we can.”

The new Dark Matter detector goes underground

Dark matter is the secret of scientists, because despite the ratio of 5 to 1, despite the everyday particles in the universe, we do not even imagine what the dark matter is. Still, we know who (probably) is not.

The dark material is actually invisible because it interacts directly with electromagnetic radiation or light, or does it, and this interaction is so weak that we do not see it. Dark Mater interacts in gravitational terms, which allowed astronomers to find out that all galaxies such as the Milk Way are inserted into the huge halogens of the dark substance that extend far beyond the visible material.

Particles consisting of atoms, electrons, protons and neutrons to make However, interact with light, so we know that dark material is not the same “things” consisting of stars, planets, moons, asteroids, animals and everything else we can see.

This led to the search for particles exceeding the so -called standard particle physics model that was completed when scientists discovered Higgs Boson to the Great Hadron Formation (LHC), the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, back in 2012.

Despite the fact that scientists use instruments such as LHC to combine protons and atomic nuclei, at almost speed of light, the potential particle of dark substance has not yet manifested in the laboratory. It is also despite searching for 4 decades.

Traditional dark material detectors are designed to notice small bursts of energy that occur when dark material particles, whatever they may be, are encountered and interact with particles of conventional substances. Current detectors use heavy atoms such as xenon and argon, which should retreat if their nucleus is struck, much like colliding with billiards. Energy from this retreat would be recorded and evaluated as a possible signal of dark energy.

The problem is that the retreat necessary for detection occurs only if the dark material particle, which hits the atomic nucleus, has a similar mass as the stolen nucleus.

This means that in this way attempts to detect dark material particles were historically concentrated on particles with nuclear -sized masses or Wimp. However, this team’s reasons for WIMP, about 40 years of hunting that had been carried out so far, had to show the signal.

However, if the dark particles are smaller, this detection method will not work. Returning to an analogy of a billiard ball, imagine you will replace the pool balls in bowling balls and a stick ball ping-pong ball. Lighter particles of dark substance should not have the xenon or argon core to retreat. But they could cause retreat when much less massive particles, such as electrics, strike. As a result of a smaller retreat would be a smaller energy flash that requires a more sensitive detector to notice it

In order to create a more sensitive set of dark material detection, this team has appealed to the Silicon Captain’s charged pair devices or CCD. These advanced sensors use silicon to detect much lower energy events than other CCDs may notice.

The device can detect signals from one electron as they fly a much larger atomic nucleus. This should allow investigators to hunt dark material particles similar to electrons.

Such sensitivity requires a particularly well -screened environment to avoid any signal to unwanted signals or “noise” from the surrounding natural events. Thus, this team occupies its detector about 1.2 miles (2 kilometers) after the French Alps.

In this underground loose, plenty of foundation nodes can block cosmic rays, charged particles flowing into Earth from space, filtering signals to strike atoms, while ancient lead and special in the laboratory have grown copper reducing background radiation and associated noise.

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The current detector is a prototype of the concept proof with 8 silicon captain CCD. The next step is to increase this up to 208 sensors to create an experiment for a full size that was called Damic-M.

The larger Damic-M locking area will increase the ability to capture the interaction of electrons and dark material particles, making this detector the most sensitive to the world’s potential Wimpier particles.

“Trying to capture a Dark Mater signal is like an attempt to hear something whispering in the stadium full of people. That’s what a small signal, “made a conclusion in the Nor.

The team investigation was published on August 13. In the magazine Physical review letters;