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Friday, September 8th 2006
2:30 pm:
Introduction to Research Seminar
in 157 Physics
Speaker: Professor Prisca Cushman
Subject: Cryogenic Dark Matter Search
The coldest place in Minnesota is really 1/2 mile underground. Despite the recent announcement from NASA, no one has ever directly detected dark matter. We are trying to do just that, using a terrestrial detector cooled to 50 mK. If WIMPs are the dark matter particle, then we learn more about the Big Bang and a clue to unifying the fundamental forces of nature.
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