2010 Dept. of Energy Young Scientist Award Fermi Lab News on the Award Dept. Newsletter Featuring Our Group --> Dark Matter makes up for more than 85% of the universe, but is yet to be fully understood. It can be felt gravitationally, but can not be seen. The motion of galaxies and clusters are dominated by the presence of this Dark Matter. Dark Matter pervades all space around us, but we do not see it due to its exceptionally low interaction strength with ordinary matter. The most plausible hypothesis for
Due to the rareness of such recoil and the exceptionally low amount of energy released, an experiment needs to not only be very sensitive, but also have the ability to reject fake events, which can come from radioactivity. The experiment that has led the world in the field of low-mass dark matter search is called the Super Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (SuperCDMS) , earlier located in USA and the next generation being commissioned in the SNOLAB at Sudbury mines in Canada. The experiment uses very sophisticat