Breakthrough Announced in Dark Matter Detection Technology
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Re: Breakthrough Announced in Dark Matter Detection Technology
#2Original paper here: https://journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.151...
Re: Breakthrough Announced in Dark Matter Detection Technology
#3Can someone help me understand, is the "breakthrough" this? :
>t is the world’s first and only experiment to have achieved the necessary sensitivity to “hear” the telltale signs of dark matter axions. This technological breakthrough is the result of more than 30 years of research and development, with the latest piece of the puzzle coming in the form of a quantum-enabled device that allows ADMX to listen for axions more closely than any experiment ever built.
Basically, is the purpose to announce that a new higher-fidelity device has come online? If that's the case, I feel mildly bamboozled... creation of a newer, better tool doesn't to me indicate any new "discoveries" regarding dark matter.
I'm pretty bad at understanding anything "physics" above the most basic classical stuff though so it's very possible I'm totally off base here.
Re: Breakthrough Announced in Dark Matter Detection Technology
#4Can someone help me understand, is the "breakthrough" this? : >t is the world’s first and only experiment to have achieved the necessary sensitivity to “hear” the telltale signs of dark matter axions. This technological breakthrough is the result of more than 30 years of research and development, with the latest piece of the puzzle coming in the form of a quantum-enabled device that allows ADMX to listen for axions m…
The title nor the article make no claim of such a discovery. The "breakthrough" is, as claimed, the technology that will hopefully be used to detect something leading to making a discovery.
Re: Breakthrough Announced in Dark Matter Detection Technology
#5Can someone help me understand, is the "breakthrough" this? : >t is the world’s first and only experiment to have achieved the necessary sensitivity to “hear” the telltale signs of dark matter axions. This technological breakthrough is the result of more than 30 years of research and development, with the latest piece of the puzzle coming in the form of a quantum-enabled device that allows ADMX to listen for axions m…
Yes, the "breakthrough" is the instrument; an ultra low noise receiver with a new type of amplifier. Thus "Detection Technology" in the title.
Re: Breakthrough Announced in Dark Matter Detection Technology
#6Can someone help me understand, is the "breakthrough" this? : >t is the world’s first and only experiment to have achieved the necessary sensitivity to “hear” the telltale signs of dark matter axions. This technological breakthrough is the result of more than 30 years of research and development, with the latest piece of the puzzle coming in the form of a quantum-enabled device that allows ADMX to listen for axions m…
The article describes how a better instrument enables a search in the band of interest:
“This result signals the start of the true hunt for axions,” said Fermilab’s Andrew Sonnenschein, the operations manager for ADMX. “If dark matter axions exist within the frequency band we will be probing for the next few years, then it’s only a matter of time before we find them.”
Re: Breakthrough Announced in Dark Matter Detection Technology
#7Can someone help me understand, is the "breakthrough" this? : >t is the world’s first and only experiment to have achieved the necessary sensitivity to “hear” the telltale signs of dark matter axions. This technological breakthrough is the result of more than 30 years of research and development, with the latest piece of the puzzle coming in the form of a quantum-enabled device that allows ADMX to listen for axions m…
The headline calls it a "breakthrough technology", not "breakthrough science".
Basically this is a new experiment about to begin operating. If nothing goes wrong, within a few years we'll be able to confirm or reject the axion theory of dark matter. Which is pretty big news, all told. A confirmed axion detection would be at least as important to physics as the Higgs result from CERN or the discovery of the W/Z in the 80's.
Re: Breakthrough Announced in Dark Matter Detection Technology
#8Original paper here: https://journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.151...
Thanks. Do you know a non-pay-walled link to :
Re: Breakthrough Announced in Dark Matter Detection Technology
#9Can someone help me understand, is the "breakthrough" this? : >t is the world’s first and only experiment to have achieved the necessary sensitivity to “hear” the telltale signs of dark matter axions. This technological breakthrough is the result of more than 30 years of research and development, with the latest piece of the puzzle coming in the form of a quantum-enabled device that allows ADMX to listen for axions m…
The headline calls it a "breakthrough technology", not "breakthrough science". Basically this is a new experiment about to begin operating. If nothing goes wrong, within a few years we'll be able to confirm or reject the axion theory of dark matter. Which is pretty big news, all told. A confirmed axion detection would be at least as important to physics as the Higgs result from CERN or the discovery of the W/Z in the…
> If nothing goes wrong, within a few years we'll be able to confirm or reject the axion theory of dark matter.
Well, we'll be able to reject the current axion theory of dark matter. I suspect we won't be able to reject all possible ones. (But I don't know for sure.)
Re: Breakthrough Announced in Dark Matter Detection Technology
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
The headline calls it a "breakthrough technology", not "breakthrough science". Basically this is a new experiment about to begin operating. If nothing goes wrong, within a few years we'll be able to confirm or reject the axion theory of dark matter. Which is pretty big news, all told. A confirmed axion detection would be at least as important to physics as the Higgs result from CERN or the discovery of the W/Z in the…
> If nothing goes wrong, within a few years we'll be able to confirm or reject the axion theory of dark matter. Well, we'll be able to reject the current axion theory of dark matter. I suspect we won't be able to reject all possible ones. (But I don't know for sure.)
That's sorta speciously true of any experiment. The space of hypotheses is infinte, you can only target one. Ruling out one attractive and well-supported theory would be news on its own. A confirmation of a particle discovery would be bigger still, of course.