Ricochet Experiment Expands Detector Array and Automates Data Analysis

Researchers working on the international Ricochet neutrino experiment at the Institut Laue-Langevin in Grenoble, France, have scaled their detector array from two devices to 18 while deploying custom software to automate system monitoring and data analysis. The expansion addresses a core experimental hurdle in particle physics: capturing rare interactions from subatomic particles with virtually no … Read more

Dark Photons May Explain Dark Matter

An illustration of dark photon-dark matter filling the early universe

Computer simulations published on August 13 in Physical Review Letters show that hypothetical dark photons would have halted their conversion into ordinary light in the early universe before causing significant cosmic heating, reopening a vast parameter space for dark matter research. Reopening the Search for Dark Photon Dark Matter For decades, cosmologists believed that a … Read more