To BE or NOT TO BE: the Case for Recent Dark Matter Discovery, and its Portuguese Discrediting
By: Tom Girard
From: Univ. Lisboa
At: Instituto de Investigação Interdisciplinar, Anfiteatro
[2012-06-19]
Despite over 3 decades of activity, the experimental search for the missing matter of the Universe, in which the best identification remains "weakly interacting massive particle" (or WIMP), continues to be a forefront activity of modern physics research. Recently, 3 experiments to directly detect its interaction with earth-based detectors have identified several regions of possible WIMP existence (contested however by other experiments). I will briefly describe the current experimental situation, and elaborate on a Portuguese -- SIMPLE -- discrediting of the claims.