Center for Axion and Precision Physics Research
[Newspaper Article] Hunting for dark matter with massive magnets and haloscopes (January 24 - 25, 2017) - 12 Newspaper Articles
United Press International (UPI) covered CAPP's publication in Physical Review D on January 24, 2017.
http://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.94.111702
The highlight of the article is as following.
The newspaper article says that CAPP/IBS has designed powerful magnets to hunt for the axion, a theoretical particle that could be a component of dark matter.
Dr. Byeongrok Ko (CAPP research fellow) said, "Other experiments seeking to detect dark matter around the world use solenoid magnets, we are the first to try to use toroidal magnets. Since it has been used before, you cannot easily buy the equipment, so we develop it ourselves."
Before researchers can detect the evidence of the axion-to-photon conversion, they have to predict--through theoretical math and physics--exactly what that conversion will look like amid a mess of electromagnetic data.
Researchers have previously theorized the expression of an axion conversion can't be easily predicted within the chaotic energies created a toroidal shaped magnet. The latest research by Dr. Ko and his colleagues--published in the journal Physical Review D--suggess the opposite.
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