Berkeley researchers identify a new path for the discovery of dark matter
A team of researchers jointly affiliated with Berkeley Lab’s Particle Theory Group and the Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics has demonstrated that an upcoming telescope could be the discovery instrument for the particle nature of dark matter.
The research team – including Nick Rodd and Linda Xu, researchers in Berkeley Lab’s Physics Division, and Ben Safdi, a faculty member in UC Berkeley’s Physics Department – has been collaborating for several years looking for new ways to discover the elusive nature of dark matter. Their current study focuses on higgsino dark matter, a theoretical scenario where dark matter is a heavier version of the Higgs particle, with a mass of ~1 TeV or roughly 10 times heavier than the Higgs and 1,000 times heavier than a proton.
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