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Dark matter looks to be particularly wimpy

Experiment shows weakly-interacting particles must be very weak indeed.

The tiny, wimpy particles that might make up the Universe's dark matter must be even wimpier than some theories suggest.

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Posted by Nicola Jones on April 17, 2007 06:04 PM |

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There is a typo. WARP is using liquid argon. ZEPLIN-II uses liquid xenon, as XENON uses.

Posted by: a xenon guy | April 17, 2007 10:45 PM

Forgive the oversimple: is it established that the dark matter is a particle? Is it ruled out that is not a wave?

Posted by: John Batchelor | June 9, 2007 02:49 AM

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