I A new concept in Low Mass Dark Matter detection

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This Dark Matter hunting is pretty popular.
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/04/aa42114-21/aa42114-21.html
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Oldman too said:
Summary:: This Dark Matter hunting is pretty popular.
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/04/aa42114-21/aa42114-21.html

Summary:We propose a search for low mass dark matter particles through momentum recoils caused by their scattering from trapped, nanometer-scale objects.
The Paper linked details a novel concept for detecting WIMPs. I hope to see more work performed on the idea in the future.
https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.101301

https://physics.aps.org/articles/v15/32
This one is particularly interesting as it would detect dark matter particles that interact only via gravity (which is kind of the null hypothesis for dark matter).
 
Oldman too said:
Summary:: This Dark Matter hunting is pretty popular. [...]
I'm glad I'm not paying for it. Oh,... wait,... :oldmad:
 
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