Read article 'Researchers grapple with XENON1T excess'
The excess could be due to a difficult-to-constrain tritium background, solar axions or solar neutrinos with a Majorana nature, says the collaboration.
Read article 'Funky physics at KIT'
The FUNK experiment has set an improved limit on the existence of hidden photons as candidates for dark matter with masses in the eV range.
Read article 'First physics for Belle II'
The collaboration scoured four months of electron-positron collisions at SuperKEKB for evidence of invisibly decaying Z′ bosons.
Read article 'CMS goes scouting for dark photons'
The CMS collaboration recently used a dedicated set of high-rate “scouting” triggers to extend their search for dark photons to lower energies.
Read article 'BASE tests antimatter’s dark side'
Working at CERN’s Antiproton Decelerator, the international BASE team has set the first laboratory limits on the interaction between antimatter and dark-matter axions
Read article 'Black-hole snap scoops 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics'
The $3 million prize will be shared equally between 347 researchers who were co-authors of the six papers published by the EHT collaboration on 10 April.
Read article 'Black-hole image constrains ultra-light dark matter'
The inferred mass, spin and age of M87* are incompatible with the existence of fuzzy dark matter with masses of the order of a few 10-21 eV.
Read article 'Interdisciplinary physics at the AEDGE'
Cold-atom interferometry could fill a gap in observational capability for gravitational waves in the intermediate-frequency band.
Read article 'Colliders join the hunt for dark energy'
The ATLAS collaboration carried out a first collider search for light scalar particles that could contribute to the accelerating expansion of the universe.
Read article 'Report summarises dark-sector exploration'
ATLAS has recently released a summary gathering the results from more than 20 experimental searches for dark matter and a first collider search for dark energy.
