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On Fri, 05 Apr 2013 05:14:49 +0000, "Jai Maharaj" wrote:

Scientists home in on mysterious dark matter

ANI
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Thursday, April 4, 2013

Sometimes called the sculptor of the universe's millions of galaxies
because of the way its gravity shapes their formation, its existence has
long been recognised because of the way it pushes visible stars and
planets around.

Scientists said on Wednesday they may be close to tracking down the
mysterious "dark matter" which makes up more than a quarter of the
universe but has never been seen.

A final identification of what makes up the enigmatic material would solve
one of the biggest mysteries in physics and open up new investigations
into the possibility of multiple universes and other areas, said
researchers.

Members of an international team had picked up what might be the first
physical trace left by dark matter while studying cosmic rays recorded on
the International Space Station, said the head of the Europe- and US-based
research project Samuel Ting.

He told a packed seminar at the CERN research centre, near Geneva, the
team had found a surge of positron particles that might have come from
dark matter. In the coming months, he said, the CERN-built AMS particle
detector on the space station "will be able to tell us conclusively
whether these positrons are a signal for dark matter or if they have some
other origin".

Dark matter, once the stuff of science fiction, "is one of the most
important mysteries of physics today," Ting, a professor at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and 1976 Nobel physics prize winner,
has written. Sometimes called the sculptor of the universe's millions of
galaxies because of the way its gravity shapes their formation, its
existence has long been recognised because of the way it pushes visible
stars and planets around.

But efforts in laboratories on earth and in deep underground caverns to
find concrete evidence that it is there, and to establish what it is, have
so far proven fruitless. Ting said it was also possible the surges came
from pulsars - rotating neutron stars that emit a pulsing radiation.

But CERN physicist Pauline Gagnon said after hearing Ting that the
precision of the AMS could make it possible "to get a first hold on dark
matter really soon". "That would be terrific, like discovering a
completely new continent. It would really open the door to a whole new
world," said Gagnon, a Canadian physicist on ATLAS, one of the two CERN
teams that believe they found evidence of the elusive Higgs particle in
the centre's Large Hadron Collider.

New Physics

John Conway, a physics professor from the University of California, Davis,
working at CERN, said a confirmed discovery would push scientists into
uncharted realms of research.

He said fresh insights could be gained into super- symmetry, a theory that
says the current known 17 elementary particles have heavier but invisible
counterparts, and dimensions beyond the currently known length, breadth
and height, and time.

Other scientists, especially cosmologists now trying to peer back beyond
the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago, suggest identification of dark matter
could give new clues to whether the universe itself is alone or one of
many. New research could start at CERN's Large Hadron Collider when the
vast machine resumes operations in early 2015.

The huge subterranean complex running under the Franco- Swiss border at
the foot of the Jura mountains was shut down in February to double its
power and multiply the millions of "mini-Big Bang" particle collisions it
can stage daily. Until last week, dark matter was thought to make up
around 24% of the universe, with normal matter — galaxies, stars and
planets - accounting for about 4.5%.

But then the European Space Agency's Planck satellite team reported that
mapping of echoes of the early cosmos showed dark matter made up 26.8
percent and ordinary matter 4.9% — together the total of the material of
the universe.

The dominant constituent is the non-material "dark energy", as mysterious
as dark matter and believed to be the driver of cosmic expansion.

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