[DOC] [TLE] Weakly interacting massive particles - Wikipedia [PAR] In particle physics and astrophysics, weakly interacting massive particles, or 
WIMPs, is a ... WIMPs are considered one of the main candidates for cold dark 
matter, the ... The particles that have little interaction with normal matter, such as 
neutrinos, are ... These neutrinos may then travel to the Earth to be detected in 
one of the... [DOC] [TLE] Physics Confronts Its Heart of Darkness - Scientific American [PAR] Aug 31, 2016 ... So far, however, no signs of dark matter have been seen. ... Called WIMPs (
weakly interacting massive particles), these subatomic shrinking ... One of the 
latest null results in the search for WIMPs came from the Large ... cherished 
WIMP models, raising fresh fears that the long-postulated particles might be a... [DOC] [TLE] Physicists Step Up Exotic Search for the Universe's Missing Mass ... [PAR] May 26, 1992 ... THE strangeness of the universe obliges astrophysicists to heed the ... All the 
visible stars and galaxies, scientists now believe, account for less than 1 percent 
of the mass of ... as axions and WIMP's, for weakly interacting massive particles. 
.... These postulated small dark stars have been named Massive... [DOC] [TLE] Dark matter: What's the matter? : Nature : Nature Research [PAR] Sep 29, 2016 ... And could these black holes be the dark matter that holds galaxies together? ... 
Astrophysicist Timothy Brandt thinks that he has found a fatal flaw with Bird's 
theory. ... Bird's theory was based on the fact that no one had yet ruled out larger 
... was made up of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs). [DOC] [TLE] Weakly Interacting Massive Particle - Expand Your Mind - Revolvy [PAR] In particle physics and astrophysics , weakly interacting massive particles , or ... 
WIMPs are considered one of the main candidates for cold dark matter, the .... 
Larger ton-scale expansions of these xenon detectors have been approved ...... 
minimally coupled, real scalar field postulated to account for the inferred dark 
matter . [DOC] [TLE] Dark matter: Out with the WIMPs, in with the SIMPs? | Science | AAAS [PAR] Oct 30, 2014 ... Ralf Kaehler, Oliver Hahn and Tom Abel/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics 
and Cosmology ... weakly interacting massive particle, or WIMPwould do just 
as ... The particles would have a mass between one and 1000 times that of a ... 
These events must be more common than ones in which two SIMPs... [DOC] [TLE] Dark Matter, Wimps and Neutrinos - Waste Isolation Pilot Plant [PAR] (WIPP) presently focus on dark matter, weakly interacting massive particles. (
WIMPs), and ... experiment, in one way or another, tries to answer the questions, "
How was the uni- ... For years, astrophysicists have tried to mathematically 
calculate the mass of the uni- verse. ... posed for the WIPP will search for these 
WIMPs. [DOC] [TLE] Unit 10: Dark Matter [PAR] physics, astrophysics, and gravity. ... mass) to Weakly Interacting Massive 
Particles (WIMPs) that weigh in at. 100 times the proton's .... Units 1 and 2, the 
Standard Model describes these known particles and their interactions. But 
careful ... Experimentally, we have no reason to believe that dark matter ..... 
Postulated to solve. [DOC] [TLE] Dark Matter and Particle Physics [PAR] Jul 29, 2007 ... Astrophysicists now know that 80% of the matter in the universe is 'dark matter', ... 
1. 2 Evidence for Dark Matter. 1. 3 The WIMP model of Dark Matter. 3 ... One of 
the themes of the history of physics has been the discovery that the world .... Let 
us postulate ... Bahcall called this a Weakly Interacting Massive. [DOC] [TLE] LA Times 02/20/00 - CDMS [PAR] Feb 20, 2000 ... With one team claiming success, physicists still seek proof of 'dark ... They say 
they have found "dark matter"--impossibly elusive particles ... said Mike Turner, 
an astrophysicist at the University of Chicago. ... The leading suspects are 
theoretical particles called WIMPs, or weakly interacting massive particles. [DOC] [TLE] Dark matterhot or not?

Question: Astrophysicists have postulated the "weakly interacting massive" one of these, or WIMP
Answer: particle