dark matter

Only about 5% of the matter in the Universe is visible. The rest is of an unknown nature and is referred to as dark matter (27%) and dark energy (68%). Finding out what it consists of is a major question for modern science.

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Probing dark matter using antimatter

The BASE collaboration reports the first laboratory search for an interaction between antimatter and a candidate particle for dark matter

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Physics
13 November, 2019
Physics
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13 November, 2019

NA64 casts light on dark photons

The NA64 collaboration has placed new limits on the interaction between a photon and its hypothetical dark-matter counterpart

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Physics
22 July, 2019
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22 July, 2019

CMS hunts for dark photons coming from the Higgs boson

The CMS collaboration has searched for collision events in which the Higgs boson transforms into a photon and a hypothetical dark photon

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Physics
24 May, 2019

FASER: CERN approves new experiment to look for long-lived, exotic particles

The experiment, which will complement existing searches for dark matter at the LHC, will be operational in 2021

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Experiments
07 March, 2019

Happy Dark Matter Day

The 31 October is not just Halloween, it is also Dark Matter Day. Find out how to join the celebrations at research institutes around the world

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Physics
31 October, 2018
Physics
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31 October, 2018

Hunting for dark quarks

A search for dark quarks conducted by the CMS collaboration inches closer to the parent particles from which they may originate

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Physics
31 August, 2018
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31 August, 2018

XENON1T reports results of dark matter WIMPs search

Researchers from the XENON1T experiment at LNGS, Italy, present results using 1300 kg of cold Xe atoms to detect dark matter

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Physics
30 May, 2018

Higgs results take centre stage at annual Moriond conference

ATLAS and CMS present new measurements of the properties of the Higgs boson

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Physics
19 March, 2018

Happy Dark Matter Day

While 31 October may mean Halloween to some, to laboratories around the world it means Dark Matter Day

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Knowledge sharing
31 October, 2017
Knowledge sharing
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31 October, 2017

TED-Ed: The hunt for dark matter

An animation made with TED-Ed to explain what dark matter is and how CERN is looking for it

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Physics
17 August, 2017
Physics
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17 August, 2017

NA64 hunts the mysterious dark photon

NA64 is a new experiment at CERN searching for a particle called the dark photon, which might act as a bridge to the universe’s invisible, dark sector

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Experiments
25 November, 2016
Experiments
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25 November, 2016

CAST explores the dark side of the universe

The astroparticle experiment tracks the Sun morning and evening to search for particles of dark matter and dark energy

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Physics
18 September, 2015
Physics
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18 September, 2015