Read article 'Cornering WIMPs with ATLAS'
Cornering WIMPs with ATLAS
The ATLAS collaboration has released new monojet and dijet searches for WIMPs based on the full Run-2 data set.
Read article 'Cornering WIMPs with ATLAS'
Read article 'ALICE’s dark side'
ALICE’s dark side
Precision measurements of the production and annihilation of light antinuclei are sharpening the search for dark matter.
Read article 'LHCb explores dark-sector confinement'
LHCb explores dark-sector confinement
LHCb has probed hidden-valley scenarios which exhibit confinement in an analogous way to how the strong nuclear force confines quarks.
Read article 'Researchers grapple with XENON1T excess'
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'
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'
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'
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'
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'
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'
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.
