MultiDark (MULTImessenger Approach for DARK Matter Detection) is a Spanish project, with a stated goal of contributing to the identification and detection of
dark matter
Dark matter is a hypothetical form of matter thought to account for approximately 85% of the matter in the universe. Dark matter is called "dark" because it does not appear to interact with the electromagnetic field, which means it does not ab ...
.
History
The project is a grouping effort, involving many researchers in the Spanish community with a special interest in dark matter. It began on 17 December 2009 and is funded for five years. The project is supported by Consolider-Ingenio, a programme of the
Ministry of Economy and Finance.
Goals
*To analyse in detail the most plausible candidates for dark matter.
*To investigate how they form the
dark halo
According to modern models of physical cosmology, a dark matter halo is a basic unit of cosmological structure. It is a hypothetical region that has decoupled from cosmic expansion and contains gravitationally bound matter.
A single dark ma ...
s that are believed to surround
galaxies
A galaxy is a system of stars, stellar remnants, interstellar gas, dust, dark matter, bound together by gravity. The word is derived from the Greek ' (), literally 'milky', a reference to the Milky Way galaxy that contains the Solar System. ...
.
*To contribute to the development of experiments to detect dark matter.
References
Further reading
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* Invited talk at the 36th COSPAR Scientific Assembly, Beijing, China, 16–23 July 2006
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External links
Multimessenger Approach for Dark Matter Detection.Spanish Project of the Consolider-Ingenio 2010 Programme
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Experiments for dark matter search