Interesting new technology helps explore dark matter

A team of researchers said they could look straight into a whole new way. Using a new combination of materials in the form of a so-called "scintillator" crystal .

The new discovery is expected to be able to detect dark matter smaller than any previously discovered particle.

The combination of these elements will make the crystals sparkle when interacting with dark matter.(Image source: Phys).

This mass mass, under WIMPS mass as weakly interacting molecular particles, is largely unexplored, and researchers hope that lower-level search can create a breakthrough breaking in finding evidence of the existence of dark matter in the universe.

Researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory of the US Department of Energy have proposed building a new dark matter experiment using a super-detector that combines gallium arsenide crystals (GaAs) along with silicon and bo.

The combination of these elements will make the crystals sparkle, or light up, when it actually interacts with dark matter particles.

"The interaction of dark matter will be detected as infrared photons (light) collected by external transition sensors (TES)," said Stephen Derenzo, a laboratory expert . must be phonon (heat) ". He is the lead author of a study published this week in the Journal of Applied Physics.