Hunting Dark Photons with a Mirror Telescope ⚡ экспресс
Original: "First Dark Photon Search Results from the Dandelion Experiment"
The Dandelion experiment used quantum detectors for the first time to search for dark photons — and set a new limit on their elusiveness.
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A tiny mirror turns invisible dark matter into light. The Dandelion experiment deployed detectors cooled almost to absolute zero for the first time to catch dark photons—candidates for the universe’s hidden mass. No signal was detected, but the search is just beginning.
🎯 A dark photon with a mass of 1 meV is half a million times lighter than an electron — the lightest particle with nonzero mass.