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Dark matter and energy

Dark matter and energy

The search for dark matter

06 Jan 2000

Experiments housed deep underground are searching for new particles that could simultaneously solve one of the biggest mysteries in astrophysics and reveal what lies beyond the Standard Model of particle physics

ZEPLIN detector
Part of the ZEPLIN detector that will begin searching for "dark matter" later this year. ZEPLIN is a scintillation detector based on liquid xenon. (Courtesy: Igor Lubarsky, Imperial College London/Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)
Physicists are very particular about balancing budgets. Energy, charge and momentum all have to be c

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