Weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) are hypothetical particles that are one of the proposed candidates for dark matter. There exists no formal...

(which moves faster than light). Types of massive particles include weakly interacting and stable massive particles, which are hypothesized to constitute...

A strongly interacting massive particle (SIMP) is a hypothetical particle that interacts strongly between themselves and weakly with ordinary matter, but...

matter is some as-yet-undiscovered subatomic particle, such as either weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) or axions. The other main possibility...

aforementioned WIMP A SIMP (strongly interacting massive particle) is a particle that interact strongly between themselves and weakly with ordinary matter and could...

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...

particle. Cai, Cacciapaglia, and Lee (2022) proposed massive gravitons as feebly Interacting particle candidates. WIMP – weakly interacting massive particle...

In particle physics, the acronym WISP refers to a largely hypothetical weakly interacting sub-eV particle, or weakly interacting slender particle, or weakly...

fermionic particles. Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) are a broad category of theoretical particles, that interact not at all or very weakly with...

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)...

cosmology, are dark matter weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPS) candidates with masses less than 1 GeV. These particles are heavier than warm dark...

dictionary. Wimp, WIMP, or Wimps may refer to: Weakly interacting massive particle, a hypothetical particle of dark matter WIMP (computing), the "window...

it interacts very weakly with ordinary matter and electromagnetic radiation. Proposed candidates for CDM include weakly interacting massive particles, primordial...

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...

Underground Xenon experiment (LUX) aimed to directly detect weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter interactions with ordinary matter on Earth...

In nuclear physics and particle physics, the weak interaction, also called the weak force, is one of the four known fundamental interactions, with the...

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...

early Big Bang). Weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPS), an alternative theory of dark matter Robust associations of massive baryonic objects (RAMBOs)...

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...

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...

as pumps. Xenon is also used to search for hypothetical weakly interacting massive particles and as a propellant for ion thrusters in spacecraft. Naturally...

In particle physics, an elementary particle or fundamental particle is a subatomic particle that is not composed of other particles. The Standard Model...

candidates are sterile neutrinos and gravitinos. The WIMPs (weakly interacting massive particles), when produced non-thermally, could be candidates for warm...

15 °C; −450.67 °F); however, if weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) exist, interactions with these particles may keep some white dwarfs much...

experiments designed to directly detect particle dark matter in the form of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (or WIMPs). Using an array of semiconductor...

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...

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...

Model, there is a heavy stable particle (such as the neutralino) which could serve as a weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter candidate...

radioactive decay (through weak interactions), or by pair production from a sufficiently energetic photon which is interacting with an atom in a material...

In particle physics, the electroweak interaction or electroweak force is the unified description of two of the four known fundamental interactions of nature:...