
Particle Problems and How to Solve Them
The Naked Scientists Podcast
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Is There a Candidate for Dark Matter?
We know some of the characteristics we expect from dark matter, based on how it behaves in the universe. So i have been using the collisions in the atlas experiment at the lh g to search for new particles predicted in an extension of our current recipe book. This predicts that for every particle we currently know about, there's a heaviest super partner. introducing these new particles can actually solve several of the outstanding mysteries in our universe - including providing us with a candidate for dark matter.
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