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What dark matter can AMS currently find (or exclude)?
The rumor mill is running again, this time it's about the AMS experiment (Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer) that's going to make a major announcement soon.
I suppose they are looking for peaks in gamma ...
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Remaining Potential Experimental Particle Physics Discoveries at the TeV Scale?
With the discovery of the Higgs Boson, some have been calling it the end of experimental particle physics for our generation, due to the fact that all of the particles predicted by the standard model ...
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What is the upper-limit on intrinsic heating due to dark matter?
Cold dark matter is thought to fill our galactic neighborhood with a density $\rho$ of about 0.3 GeV/cm${}^3$ and with a velocity $v$ of roughly 200 to 300 km/s. (The velocity dispersion is much ...
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What properties of Germanium make it suitable for Dark Matter detectors?
What properties of Germanium make it suitable for Dark Matter detectors?
I tried googling but there was too many results describing the use of Germanium Chrystals at low tempretures for Dark Matter ...
