Read article 'CAST: enlightening the dark'
Our star has been the target of human investigation since the beginning of science. However, a plethora of observations are not yet understood. A good example is the unnaturally hot solar coron...
Read article 'XENON100 sees no evidence of dark-matter interactions with electrons in liquid xenon'
Nearly 400 days of data taken by the XENON collaboration were used to look for the telltale signature of dark matter, an event rate that varies periodically over the course of a year. The null re...
Read article 'CMS and the continuing quest to unveil dark matter'
The search for particles that could constitute dark matter in the universe relies on detecting their interplay with the Standard Model particles through a three-pronged approach: via direct-detection ...
Read article 'LHC and Planck: where two ends meet'
Links between research at opposite ends of the distance scale.
Read article 'ATLAS gives new limits in the search for dark matter'
There is evidence for dark matter from many astronomical observations, yet so far, dark matter has not been seen in particle-physics experiments, and there is no evidence for non-gravitational interac...
Read article 'A bright future for dark-matter searches'
The US Department of Energy Office of High Energy Physics and the National Science Foundation Physics Division have announced their joint programme for second-generation dark-matter experiments, aimin...
Read article 'IAXO: the International Axion Observatory'
A large superconducting magnet could cast light on the dark universe.
Read article 'Higgs and top: a new window on dark matter'
With the discovery of a Higgs boson at the LHC two years ago, the last piece of the Standard Model puzzle fell into place. Yet, several mysteries remain, one of which is the enigma of the origin of da...
Read article 'CDMS puts new constraints on dark-matter particles'
While it is now generally accepted that dark matter makes up the majority of the mass in the universe, little is known about what it is.
Read article 'First results from LUX on dark matter'
The collaboration that built and runs the Large Underground Xenon (LUX) experiment, operating in the Sanford Underground Research Laboratory, has released its first results in the search for weakly in...
