Closing In on Dark Matter: LUX-ZEPLIN Time Projection Chamber Sets New Limits - eviltoast
  • Aisteru@lemmy.aisteru.ch
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    2 months ago

    The new result is nearly five times better than the previous world’s best published result and finds no evidence of WIMPs above a mass of 9 GeV/c2.

    That’s pretty neat. I wonder if we’re getting close, or if we are making mistaken assumptions.

    • InvertedParallax@lemm.ee
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      2 months ago

      Given the behavior wimps are either much lower energy, but a lot of them, or purely virtual artifacts, potentially of quantum effects.

      Once you go below a certain threshold the difference becomes less meaningful.