Particle Problems and How to Solve Them
The Naked Scientists Podcast
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Is There a Dark Matter Particle?
Dark matter would interact so weakly, it would actually not leave any visible signature in our detector if we were to produce it. So what we have to do is look at all the other particles that we produce and try to infer the possible existence of a dark matter particle being produced. We've performed many searches for m candidates of dark matter, and we haven't seen signals yet. However, this information allows us to refine our future searches and gives us a better idea of where to look.
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