A NEW EXPERIMENT SEARCHING FOR DARK MATTER AT CERN

The NA64 experiment started operations at CERN’s North Area earlier this year. It uses a unique setup to hunt down a specific type of dark matter particle called the dark photon. Some theories suggest that dark matter consists of a family of new particles and forces. In addition to gravity, dark-matter particles could interact with visible matter through a new force, which has so far escaped detection. Just as the electromagnetic force is carried by the photon, this dark force is thought to be transmitted by a particle called the dark photon. It is predicted to have a subtle interaction (a “mixing”, in particle-physics jargon) with the regular photon and therefore act as a mediator between visible and dark matter. CERN’s NA64 experiment looks for signatures of this visible-dark interaction using a simple but powerful physics concept: the conservation of energy. A beam of electrons coming from the Super Proton Synchrotron accelerator, whose initial energy is very precisely known (100 GeV), is aimed at a detector and the energy that it deposits is measured further downstream. Interactions between incoming electrons and atomic nuclei in the detector produce (visible) photons. If theories of dark forces are correct, however, these ordinary photons could occasionally transform into dark photons, which simply escape the detector and carry away a large fraction of the initial electron energy.Therefore, the signature of the dark photon is an event registered in the detector with a large “missing energy” that cannot be attributed to a process involving only ordinary particles, thus providing a strong hint for the dark photon’s existence. If confirmed, the existence of the dark photon would represent a breakthrough in our understanding the long-standing dark matter mystery.

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[jkthomas]

Even if this experiment fails to find anything, colliding different particles might. Antimatter might react more with dark matter/energy than regular matter. Furthermore, if more antimatter is converted into dark matter via collisions than is the case for regular matter, this would be an excellent candidate for the matter-antimatter asymmetry that caused matter to win out in the big bang!

[aknightthatsaysnee]

What are the helmets for? In case a particle gets loose?

[theBIRDWOODproject]

How did I go from an Earth in the outskirts of the Milkway in the arm of Sagittarius to this Earth ? so many thing have "changed". Please help .

[higreentj]

What we find, and what we do not find, all adds to our knowledge of our universe.

[untitled]

the dark photon should be named a Penumbron

[SlipKnotRicky]

Either there really is Dark Matter and Dark Energy, or our understanding of the Laws of this Universe are way

[charlottebowes]

I’ll be having that dark matter back kiddies…Nicely 😎

[edferd]

So when CERN finally opens a portal to another universe using the Hadron collider has anyone considered that it may be a universe of Dark Energy!?

[claudieblyau]

Je suis enthousiaste et très intéressée
car la théorie de la Relativité de Einstein
à conduit aux trous noirs et aux ellipses
dans l’Univers et qui expliquent que les
images que nous voyons dates souvent
de milliard d’années lumière
Je remercie Étienne Klein de son exposé
qui est remarquable à tout point de vue
Claudie Blyau

[Gizemci]

Karanlık madde dört elementtir
Toprak, su, hava, ateş

[alanroy]

What if their are beings created by dark matter

[elomnusk]

der Spreche ristock deutsch. das hört man so krass raus ^^

[James-zuij]

Why doesn't dark matter have local gravity effects, say on an apple falling

[citizenmedia-realamericans]

keep up the good work. you may just get what you guys want and when you guys actually get what you want then you will not be able to close the portal you guys opened. and then you will realize this was all a mistake for mankind.

Parallel Universes gives the people a sense of mandela effect..

We all know what has happened and what is about to happen.

Especially since your "reearch" for the "godlike" partical has changed passages in the King James version of the bible..

opened portals from another dimension to swap events back and forth.

for when one event has been taken away that event replaces the other event in the other dimension.

when that no longer happens then there will be a rip that will destroy all as we know it.

the awakened people can not have memories replaced with false ones and wjll never except it as a truth..

[JdotTv-ez]

People yellin conspiracy but dek that the term was a counter to would be whistleblowers.

[Jose-pqow]

I love your Mickey Mouse's sweater

[BlankPicketSign]

I ♥ CERN
Find the secrets of our Universe y'all! We're counting on you!

[nimrodquimbus]

Dark matter makes sense and is found in the Bible.

[philipstuckey]

in b4 people suggesting dark matter doesn't exist

[Gizemci]

Dark matter is four element
Earth, water, air, fire