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MULTIDARK, MULTImessenger Approach for DARK Matter Detection, is a Spanish Project supported by the Ministry of Science and Innovation's Consolider-Ingenio 2010 Programme (Ref: CSD2009-00064), that started on January 2010 and has a duration of five years. Prompted by a call by Ministry for funding excellence projects grouping together many researchers, most of the Spanish community involved in the field of Dark Matter decided to join efforts for its identification and detection. In particular, experimental and theoretical physicists, astrophysicists and cosmologists decided to take up the task from a multidisciplinary perspective.
One of the great scientific enigmas still unsolved is the existence of dark matter. Simple gravitational arguments allow to deduce that most of the mass in the Universe, about 85%, is some (unknown) non-luminous matter, implying that we are not made of what most of the Universe is made of. Particle candidates for dark matter have been proposed all of which imply new physics. This is the case for example of the neutralino, sneutrino or gravitino, particles predicted by the supersymmetric extension of the standard model of particle physics. But other candidates have also been proposed. The main goal of MULTIDARK is to contribute to the identification and detection of the dark matter. To this end, MULTIDARK proposes (i) to analyse in detail the most plausible candidates for dark matter, (ii) to investigate how they form the dark halos hosting the galaxies and (iii) to contribute to the development of experiments to detect the dark matter.
Further reading
- Gianfranco Bertone, Dan Hooper, Joseph Silk (2005). "Particle Dark Matter: Evidence, Candidates and Constraints". Phys. Rep. 405: 279–390. doi:10.1016/j.physrep.2004.08.031.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - Nicolao Fornengo (2008). "Status and perspectives of indirect and direct dark matter searches". Adv.Space Res. 41: 2010–2018. doi:10.1016/j.asr.2007.02.067. Invited talk at the 36th COSPAR Scientific Assembly, Beijing, China, 16-23 July 2006
- Carlos Munoz (2002). "The Enigma of the Dark Matter". Contemporary Physics. 43: (2002) 51-62.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - Carlos Munoz (2004). "Dark matter detection in the light of recent experimental results". Int. J. Mod. Phys. A19: (2004) 3093-3170.
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External links
- Multimessenger Approach for Dark Matter Detection. Spanish Project of the Consolider-Ingenio 2010 Programme