• Weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) are hypothetical particles that are one of the proposed candidates for dark matter. There exists no formal...
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  • A strongly interacting massive particle (SIMP) is a hypothetical particle that interacts strongly between themselves and weakly with ordinary matter, but...
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    Self-interacting dark matter – Hypothetical form of dark matter consisting of particles with strong self-interactions Weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) –...
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  • particle. Cai, Cacciapaglia, and Lee (2022) proposed massive gravitons as feebly Interacting particle candidates. WIMP – weakly interacting massive particle...
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  • fermionic particles. Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) are a broad category of theoretical particles, that interact not at all or very weakly with...
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  • This is a list of hypothetical subatomic particles in physics. Some theories predict the existence of additional elementary bosons and fermions that are...
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    15 °C; −450.67 °F); however, if weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) exist, interactions with these particles may keep some white dwarfs much...
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  • interacting massive particles (WIMP), weakly interacting slender particles (WISP), or feebly interacting particles (FIP). Hypothetical particle candidates...
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  • supersymmetric models is a dark matter candidate and is a weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP). The LSP is unlikely to be a charged wino, charged...
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  • it interacts very weakly with ordinary matter and electromagnetic radiation. Proposed candidates for CDM include weakly interacting massive particles, primordial...
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  • Neutralino (category Hypothetical elementary particles)
    lightest neutralino of roughly 10–10000 GeV is the leading weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter candidate.: 124  Neutralino dark matter...
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    Gaugino (redirect from Wino (particle))
    supersymmetric particle (LSP), often a neutralino such as the photino, is stable. In that case it is a weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) and a...
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  • In particle physics, the acronym WISP refers to a largely hypothetical weakly interacting sub-eV particle, or weakly interacting slender particle, or weakly...
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    Higgs boson (redirect from Higgs particle)
    fields in particle physics theory. In the Standard Model, the Higgs particle is a massive scalar boson that couples to (interacts with) particles whose mass...
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    In nuclear physics and particle physics, the weak interaction, weak force or the weak nuclear force, is one of the four known fundamental interactions...
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    dark matter, in astronomy and cosmology, are dark matter weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPS) candidates with masses less than 1 GeV (i.e., a mass...
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  • early Big Bang). Weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPS), an alternative theory of dark matter Robust associations of massive baryonic objects (RAMBOs)...
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    In particle physics, an elementary particle or fundamental particle is a subatomic particle that is not composed of other particles. The Standard Model...
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  • dictionary. Wimp, WIMP, or Wimps may refer to: Weakly interacting massive particle, a hypothetical particle of dark matter WIMP (computing), the "window...
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    physics, a subatomic particle is a particle smaller than an atom. According to the Standard Model of particle physics, a subatomic particle can be either a...
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  • the GUT scale. Both weakly interacting massive particles (WIMP) and axion models for dark matter require the new, long-lived particles to have masses far...
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    Fermion (redirect from Matter particle)
    carrier particles. However, in the current state of particle physics, the distinction between the two concepts is unclear. Weakly interacting fermions...
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    Bubble chamber (category Particle detectors)
    Recently, bubble chambers have been used in research on weakly interacting massive particles (WIMP)s, at SIMPLE, COUPP, PICASSO and more recently, PICO...
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    supersymmetric particle, a weakly interacting massive particle, a gravitationally-interacting massive particle, an axion, and a massive compact halo object...
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  • Model, there is a heavy stable particle (such as the neutralino) which could serve as a weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter candidate...
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  • Micro black hole (category Hypothetical particles)
    Hawking particles or absorbing energy gravitationally like a classical black hole. In such case, they would be weakly interacting massive particles; this...
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  • experiments designed to directly detect particle dark matter in the form of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (or WIMPs). Using an array of semiconductor...
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  • matter particles using colliders. Indirect searches use various methods to detect the expected annihilation cross sections for weakly interacting massive particles...
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    Simons Foundation Thesis The astrophysical implications of weakly interacting, massive particles (1985) Doctoral advisor William H. Press Doctoral students...
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    high-energy particles, they produce jets of massive particles instead of emitting their constituents (quarks and gluons) as freely moving particles. This property...
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