Emerging technique for probing powerfully interacting dark matter within neutrino detectors
Around the globe, physicists are striving to identify dark matter (DM) particles and their interactions with observable matter employing a range of tactics…
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Neutrinos have the potential to rescue the cosmos
Prove that the universe survived the Big Bang due to a phase transition that allowed neutrino particles to reshuffle matter and anti-matter.
A new approach for measuring low-energy solar neutrinos in a directed manner has been developed
Solar neutrinos are produced as a by-product of the fusion processes that are responsible for the immense amount of heat that the sun emits.
What is the temperature of dark matter? Is it cold, warm, or hot?
The evidence for the presence of a sort of unseen matter—now dubbed dark matter—is overwhelming half a century after Vera Rubin and Kent Ford showed that it…
A large rogue in our galaxy might be a black hole
Astronomers think it's the first Milky Way solitary black hole with a sun-like mass. It might be one of the heaviest neutron stars.
What exactly is a Neutrino? What's more, why do they matter?
Neutrinos are teeny-tiny, virtually massless particles that move at speeds close to light.
How and why the Daya Bay experiment contributed to China's neutrino legacy
Ling Xin looks at the impact of the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment, which ended recently, on neutrino physics, US–China partnerships, and future…