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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(which moves faster than light). Types of massive particles include weakly interacting and stable massive particles, which are hypothesized to constitute...
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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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matter is some as-yet-undiscovered subatomic particle, such as either weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) or axions. The other main possibility...
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aforementioned WIMP A SIMP (strongly interacting massive particle) is a particle that interact strongly between themselves and weakly with ordinary matter and could...
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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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particle. Cai, Cacciapaglia, and Lee (2022) proposed massive gravitons as feebly Interacting particle candidates. WIMP – weakly interacting massive particle...
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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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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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Higgs boson (redirect from Higgs particle)
Higgs field, one of the fields in particle physics theory. In the Standard Model, the Higgs particle is a massive scalar boson with zero spin, even (positive)...
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cosmology, are dark matter weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPS) candidates with masses less than 1 GeV. These particles are heavier than warm dark...
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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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it interacts very weakly with ordinary matter and electromagnetic radiation. Proposed candidates for CDM include weakly interacting massive particles, primordial...
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W and Z bosons (redirect from W particle)
In particle physics, the W and Z bosons are vector bosons that are together known as the weak bosons or more generally as the intermediate vector bosons...
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In nuclear physics and particle physics, the weak interaction, also called the weak force, is one of the four known fundamental interactions, with the...
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Underground Xenon experiment (LUX) aimed to directly detect weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter interactions with ordinary matter on Earth...
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Neutrino (redirect from Ν particle)
Greek letter ν) is a fermion (an elementary particle with spin of 1 /2) that interacts only via the weak interaction and gravity. The neutrino is so...
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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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Standard Model (redirect from Particle physics standard model)
not change particle flavour. Thus Z bosons are similar to the photon, aside from them being massive and interacting with the neutrino. The weak interaction...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Vector boson (redirect from Vector particle)
yield one of these values. (This is true for massive vector bosons; the situation differs for massless particles such as the photon, for reasons beyond the...
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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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Positron (redirect from Beta plus particle)
radioactive decay (through weak interactions), or by pair production from a sufficiently energetic photon which is interacting with an atom in a material...
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