Search for Dark Matter with PICO

用 PICO 寻找暗物质

• 批准号: SAPPJ-2016-00025
• 负责人: Noble, Anthony
• 金额: $ 12.76万
• 依托单位: Queen's University
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Subatomic Physics Envelope - Project
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2017-01-01 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=617896
• 关键词: Search; Dark; Matter; PICO

PICO is an international collaboration consisting of scientists and engineers from Canada, the USA, Mexico, Spain, India, and the Czech Republic. Canada is a leader on this project which aims to search for Dark Matter using sophisticated Bubble Chambers located deep underground in the Canadian SNOLAB facility for astroparticle physics. Scientists have known for decades that nearly 85% of the matter in the Universe is in a form never directly observed on Earth. This matter is believed to be ubiquitous throughout the galaxy, but has interactions with normal matter so rarely that it has never been observed to date.

皮科是一个由来自加拿大、美国、墨西哥、西班牙、印度和捷克共和国的科学家和工程师组成的国际合作组织。加拿大是该项目的领导者，该项目旨在利用位于加拿大SNOLAB天体粒子物理设施地下深处的先进气泡室寻找暗物质。几十年来，科学家们已经知道，宇宙中近85%的物质是以一种从未在地球上直接观察到的形式存在的。这种物质被认为在整个星系中无处不在，但与正常物质的相互作用非常罕见，迄今为止从未被观察到。