Listening for Dark Matter
A breakthrough for PICASSO, a collaborative research team that includes IU South Bend Physics professor Ilan Levine and his students. The Institute of Physics, publisher of the New Journal of Physics, has just issued a press release about the most recent publication by PICASSO. PICASSO listens for dark matter interactions with droplets of superheated ordinary matter. The droplets “pop” to gas bubbles of diameter ~1mm. Using 300 of the ultrasonic…