Tag Archives: dark matter

A Dark Matter mystery explained?

Posted on 09/01/2019 by

A paper on the arXiv this morning offers an explanation for an intriguing, long-standing anomalous result from the DAMA experiment. According to our current best model of how the universe hangs together, the Earth orbits the Sun within a galactic … Continue reading →

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Dark Matters

Posted on 30/10/2018 by

This is great. I had nothing to do with it, it happened in the 95% of the Physics Department (and of the lives of my PhD students) about which I know nothing. I recommend you watch it and form your … Continue reading →

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Anti-protons, Dark Matter and Helium

Posted on 04/09/2018 by

First post of “Postcards from the Energy Frontier” at the Cosmic Shambles Network. A new measurement at CERN tells us something about the way particles travel through interstellar space. Which in turn may help a satellite on the International Space … Continue reading →

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Could the theory which predicted gravitational waves be wrong?

Posted on 03/10/2017 by

At the Guardian.

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