Physicists hope to find traces of dark matter by studying particles with low masses and interaction rates

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This is assistant professor Richard Schnee. Credit: Syracuse University Physicist Richard Schnee hopes to find traces of dark matter by studying particles with low masses and interaction rates, some of which have never been probed before. The ongoing search for invisible dark matter is the subject of a recent article involving physicists from Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences. Research by Richard Schnee, assistant professor of physics, is referenced in Symmetry magazine, a joint publication of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center in Palo Alto, Calif., and Fermilab in Batavia, Ill. “Scientists looking for dark matter face a serious challenge, in that no one knows its properties,” says Schnee, also principal investigator of the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS) Physics Lab at SU. “Experiments have seen no signs of dark matter particles that have high masses, but a few experiments have claimed hints of possible interactions from dark matter particles with low masses.” An expert in particle physics, Schnee hopes to find traces of dark matter with an experiment that is more sensitive to such low-mass dark matter particles. Read more at: Phys.org

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