Although we may still be in the dark about what dark matter is, we now have a better idea about what it isn’t. Australia’s first major contribution to dark matter detection — the ORGAN Experiment — is now online and searching for dark matter, bringing us a step closer to solving one of the bigges
Australia’s first major contribution to dark matter detection, the ORGAN Experiment, is now online and searching for dark matter, bringing us a step closer to solving one of the biggest mysteries of the universe.
The first results from ORGAN rule out a popular theory about the nature of dark matter, narrowing the possibilities for what it could be, according to UWA PhD student Aaron Quiskamp, from the Australian Research Council Centres of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems and Dark Matter Particle Physics.
“It’s also given us useful information about what axion dark matter isn’t, which tells future axion searches across the globe where not to look.” “Because we don’t know how heavy the axion is, if it even exists, we need multiple experiments searching the different mass ranges predicted by the theory.”
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