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New Detector Will Aid Search For Dark Matter Friday, December 12, 2008 - Anuradha Menon Home >> Headlines >> Space   
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Several research projects are underway to try to detect particles that may make up the mysterious "dark matter" believed to dominate the universe's mass. But the existing detectors have a problem: They also pick up particles of ordinary matter -- hurtling neutrons that masquerade as the elusive dark-matter particles the instruments are designed to find. MIT physicist Jocelyn Monroe has a solution. A new detector she and her students have built just finished its initial testing last week. (source: web.mit.edu)
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