About 80% of the matter of the Universe is an undetected substance called “dark matter.” Its existence was assumed about 90 years ago. Scientists from the Jedi collaboration using the advanced methods of the particle accelerator, develop new methods its detection, although convincing evidence still remain elusive.
Dark matter was first assumed almost 90 years ago. “This was the only way to reconcile the distribution of the speed of visible matter within galaxies with existing knowledge,” explains Yorg Pretz, one of the co-authors of the study, which is also the deputy director of the Forschungszentrum Jülich nuclear physics Institute and Professor Rwth Aachen Univercy. “There must be a ‘dark’ form of matter that stabilizes the Galaxy.”
Physicists have been looking for dark matter since the 1930s. Science has proposed many theories, but no one has yet been able to find dark matter. Scientists from the Jedi collaboration used the feature of the Jülich, Cosy particle accelerator – the use of polarized bundles. If, as scientists suggest, we are surrounded by a background field of axiones, then this will affect the movement of the spins and, thus, can be found in the experiment.
However, the expected effect is extremely small. Measurements are not yet quite accurate. Despite the fact that the Jedi experiment has not yet found evidence of particles of dark matter, researchers were able to additionally narrow the possible effect of interaction. And, perhaps, even more importantly, they were able to establish a new and promising method in the search for dark matter.