{"id":2427,"date":"2014-07-18T18:01:40","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T23:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=2427"},"modified":"2014-07-18T18:01:40","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T23:01:40","slug":"super-cryogenic-dark-matter-search-comes-to-sudbury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/super-cryogenic-dark-matter-search-comes-to-sudbury\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Cryogenic Dark Matter Search comes to Sudbury<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2422\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/iZIP.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2422\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2422\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/iZIP-300x234.jpg\" alt=\"Prototype of the germanium-based iZIP detector to be used in the SuperCDMS-SNOLAB experiment to look for evidence of dark matter. (Photo credit: )\" width=\"300\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/iZIP-300x234.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/iZIP.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2422\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prototype of the germanium-based iZIP detector to be used in the SuperCDMS-SNOLAB experiment to look for evidence of dark matter. (Photo credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/cdms.berkeley.edu\/gallery.html#detectors\">)<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/cdms.berkeley.edu\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Super Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (Super CDMS)<\/a><\/span>\u00a0aims to measure the signals from exotic particles called WIMPs (Weakly Interacting Massive Particles) as they pass through a detector made of germanium. It<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> is an international, multimillion dollar dark matter\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">experiment currently based in Minnesota.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #222222;\"><a style=\"color: #1155cc;\" href=\"http:\/\/us4.campaign-archive1.com\/?u=1c2ffbf7f7d8f7439923005ce&amp;id=ed049c4451&amp;e=3c3773f432\" target=\"_blank\">Funding has recently been announced<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> that will allow SuperCDMS to build a more sensitive detector to be placed at <\/span><a style=\"color: #1155cc;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.snolab.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">SNOLAB<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">, an underground science laboratory specializing in neutrino and dark matter physics, located 2 km below the surface in the Vale Creighton Mine located near Sudbury Ontario Canada.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #222222;\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">WIMPs which are hypothesized to be one of the major components of the as-yet-undetected \u201cdark matter\u201d that makes up about a quarter of the total amount of mass and energy in the universe.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (Super CDMS)\u00a0aims to measure the signals from exotic particles called WIMPs (Weakly Interacting Massive Particles) as they pass through a detector made of germanium. It is an international, multimillion dollar dark matter\u00a0experiment currently based in Minnesota. Funding has recently been announced that will allow SuperCDMS to build a more sensitive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2422,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[869,1960,50,347,1961],"class_list":["post-2427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-tip","tag-canada-en","tag-dark-matter","tag-ontario","tag-physics","tag-snolab"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/iZIP.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-D9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2428,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427\/revisions\/2428"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}