A major challenge in the hunt for dark matter is that we don’t know the mass of the dark matter particles that we are trying to detect.
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The Centre’s 2023 Annual Report is now live. Read about the Centre’s significant achievements in 2023, our research and other Centre activities and get to know some of our Centre members.
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The Centre’s 2022 annual report is now live. Read about the Centre’s significant achievements in 2022, our research and other Centre activities and get to know some of our Centre members.
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CYGNUS is a grouping of international researchers who have an interest in directional detection using gaseous Time Projection Chambers (TPCs).
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WISPs are similar to WIMPs in some ways – e.g. they don’t interact very much at all with regular matter – but their key distinction is that they are very light in comparison.
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While SABRE looks to search for WIMPs in the traditional mass range – that is to say 10s to 100s of times as heavy as a proton – it is also possible that WIMPs are lighter, perhaps a fraction of the mass of a proton.
Read MoreWhile most experimental searches for WIMP dark matter have come up empty, there is one experiment, known as DAMA, that has claimed to have detected dark matter, and no one has yet been able to confirm or refute the claim.
Read MoreThe Centre is pursuing several research avenues in its search for WIMP dark matter. The most mature of these is the SABRE experiment, though we are also pursuing research into other WIMP experiments in the research and development phase – including Cygnus and the low mass WIMP program.
Read MoreThe key features of a WIMP are that they are relatively heavy (with a mass anywhere from the mass of a proton to the mass of a heavy nucleus) and interact only feebly with ordinary matter.
Read MoreSUPL will be the home of the SABRE South dark matter detector.
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