Experiments for dark matter search

particle detector on the International Space Station

long-term variability sky survey

astronomical research project

The XENON dark matter research project, operated at the Italian Gran Sasso National Laboratory, is a deep underground detector facility featuring increasingly ambitious experiments aiming to detect hypothetical dark matter particles. The experiments aim to detect particles in the form of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) by looking for rare nuclear recoil interactions in a liquid xenon target chamber. The current detector consists of a dual phase time projection chamber (TPC).

experiment in astroparticle physics, sited at CERN in Switzerland

The DAMA/NaI experiment investigated the presence of dark matter particles in the galactic halo by exploiting the model-independent annual modulation signature. Based on the Earth's orbit around the Sun and the Solar System's speed with respect to the center of the galaxy (which on short time scales can be considered constant), the Earth should be exposed to a higher flux of dark matter particles around June 1, when its orbital speed is added to that of the Solar System with respect to the galaxy and to a smaller one around December 2, when the two velocities are subtracted. The annu

Cosmic ray research module

Physics exploration

axion helioscope