A Super Sensitive Dark-Matter Search Yields Strange Results

As the WIMP search kept coming up empty, XENON scientists realized several years ago that they could use their experiment to search for other kinds of unknown particles that might pass through the detector: particles that bang into an electron rather than a xenon nucleus. They used to treat these “electronic recoils” as background noise, […]

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