• 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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  • These particles are potential thermal dark matter candidates, extending the model of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) to include weakly interacting...
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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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  • it interacts very weakly with ordinary matter and electromagnetic radiation. Proposed candidates for CDM include weakly interacting massive particles, primordial...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • interacting massive particles (WIMP), weakly interacting slender particles (WISP), or feebly interacting particles (FIP). Hypothetical particle candidates...
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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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  • candidates are sterile neutrinos and gravitinos. The WIMPs (weakly interacting massive particles), when produced non-thermally, could be candidates for warm...
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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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  • hypothetical dark matter particles. The experiments aim to detect particles in the form of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) by looking for rare...
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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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  • electron. Minicharged particle are hypothetical subatomic particles charged with a tiny fraction of the electron charge. Mirror particles are predicted by...
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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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    matter: If the dark matter in the Universe is in the form of weakly interacting massive particles or WIMPs, primordial black holes would accrete a halo of...
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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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    as pumps. Xenon is also used to search for hypothetical weakly interacting massive particles and as a propellant for ion thrusters in spacecraft. Naturally...
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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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  • decay signal of a hypothetical dark matter candidate called weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs). The project is the result of a collaboration among...
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  • Microlensing Hypercompact stellar system Massive compact halo object (MACHOs) Weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) Moore, B., & Silk, J. 1995, Astrophysical...
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  • known and predicted particles such as neutrinos, axions, and weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs).[2][3] A calorimeter is a device that measures the...
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    mechanism of interaction between subatomic particles that is responsible for the radioactive decay of atoms: The weak interaction participates in nuclear fission...
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  • example, neutrinoless double beta decay and the search for weakly interacting massive particles). In ecology, radionuclides are used to trace and analyze...
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    particle, which is not composed of other particles (for example, quarks; or electrons, muons, and tau particles, which are called leptons). Particle physics...
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    List of cosmological computation software Millennium Run Weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) The ΛCDM model is also known as the standard model...
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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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    Simons Foundation Thesis The astrophysical implications of weakly interacting, massive particles (1985) Doctoral advisor William H. Press Doctoral students...
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