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Published online 6 May 2004 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news040503-7
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Particle no-show pans former find
Physicists unbowed as fail to detect dark matter.
The most powerful search yet for the Universe's missing matter has come up empty handed, contradicting an earlier study that claimed to have seen new particles.
Researchers from the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search II (CDMSII) say they are pleased with their first results, which show that their detector is working and set new constraints on how the so-far undetected matter can behave, if it exists.
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