Super-Sensitive Device Seeks Axions, Proposed Dark Matter Particles

U.S. physicists say they have successfully tested the first experiment sensitive enough to detect axions — hypothetical particles that some scientists think make up the dark matter holding galaxies together.

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Tau.Neutrino said:

Super-Sensitive Device Seeks Axions, Proposed Dark Matter Particles

U.S. physicists say they have successfully tested the first experiment sensitive enough to detect axions — hypothetical particles that some scientists think make up the dark matter holding galaxies together.

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I’m starting to get as fed up with axions as I am fed up with MOND. Neither exists.

> Super-Sensitive Device Seeks Axions, Proposed Dark Matter Particles. The ADMX dark matter detector is located underground in an experiment hall at the University of Washington in Seattle. It represents a breakthrough in a four-decade-long search for the theoretical particles.

Only four decades. It seems longer. It is longer, since 1977.

There have been at least three reports of “possible detections” so far. All three contradicting each other, and contradicting the higher sensitivity experiments that found no axions, by having incompatible measurements of axion mass.