Search for Dark Matter Narrowed by New Data From XENON100

Search for Dark Matter Narrowed by New Data From XENON100
Thu, 14 Apr 2011 11:00:00 -0500

Today, scientists from the XENON collaboration announced the result from their search for the elusive component of our universe known as dark matter. After analyzing one hundred days of data taken with the XENON100 experiment, they see no evidence for the existence of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs), the leading candidates for the mysterious dark matter. The XENON100 experiment is operated deep underground at the Gran ...

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