47. Planck 2008: First and second days
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DmitryMay 20, 2008
First and second days of the PLANCK 2008 conference: flavor physics, RS phenomenology, WMAP, bigravity, WIMPonium, black holes and number of species.
27. Eye on ArXiv: 24 Apr 2008 - Detection of dark matter?
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DmitryApril 24, 2008
There was a lot of buzz recently (including the paper in New York Times) concerning the claim by DAMA/LIBRA team - they detected dark matter interactions with their detector at the level of 8 sigma
Their approach is the following: they try to find annual modulations in their DM signal (interaction of WIMPs with the material of their detector) due to fact that Earth is orbiting around the Sun. (…)
