From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Tue Jun 11 2002 - 13:06:03 MDT
http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v417/n6889/full/417575a_fs.html
> Nature 417, 575 - 576 (2002)
> Alpine detector fails to confirm Italian sighting of dark matter
> ALISON ABBOTT
>
> [MUNICH] Despite a three-month search for the mysterious particles thought
> to make up 90% of the Universe's mass, dark matter has remained rooted in
> its shadowy world.
>
> French high-energy physicists last week revealed that their highly
> sensitive detector had failed to detect a single particle of dark matter
> with the characteristics claimed to have been spotted by an Italian team
> two years ago.
>
> The results, presented at a hastily arranged special session of the 20th
> International Conference on Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics in Munich,
> contradict findings of the four-year DAMA experiment, led by Rita Bernabei
> of the University of Rome.
>
> Bernabei's team controversially claimed that it had detected WIMPs weakly
> interacting massive particles a theoretical type of dark-matter particle
> (see R. Bernabei et al. Eur. Phys. J. C 18, 283292; 2000).
>
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