Unveiling Dark Matter's Elusive Presence in the Large Hadron Collider's Particle Jets
A new search for dark matter using the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has not found evidence of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs), the previously favored candidate for dark matter. This has led researchers to explore alternative theories. One such theory suggests that dark matter could interact strongly with particles in the Standard Model. Researchers have developed a new method to search for these potential dark particles by analyzing energy imbalances in particle jets produced by high-energy collisions in the LHC. Although no evidence of these dark particles was found, the study provides upper limits for their properties, which will help fine-tune future experiments.