Newswire: 8 Sep 2015 - Kavli IPMU: Latest results from dark matter detector XMASS presented in Torino

An experiment to test whether dark matter signals change throughout the year has found contradicting results to a previous experiment, announced an international team of researchers at the TAUP2015 conference in Italy this week. There is strong evidence that dark matter exists in our universe, but no one has ever detected it. Among many candidates, it is thought to be some sort of particle, with the best candidate to date being a WIMP (Weakly Interacting Massive Particle). Positive results have ...