![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090509061907im_/http://www.nsf.gov/images/x.gif) News From the Field New MIT Detector Will Aid Dark Matter Search
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December 10, 2008
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Several research projects are underway to try and detect particles that may make up the mysterious "dark matter" believed to dominate the universe's mass. But, the existing detectors have a problem: They also pick up particles of ordinary matter that masquerade as the dark-matter particles. Massachusetts Institute of Technology physicist Jocelyn Monroe has a solution. A new detector she and her students have built just finished its initial testing last week.
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Source Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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