Optical Clocks Join the Hunt for Dark Matter

November 12, 2020• Physics 13, s145

Researchers use precise clocks and an extremely stable optical cavity to find new constraints on how the dilaton, a hypothesized dark matter particle, interacts with ordinary matter.



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Optical Clocks Join the Hunt for Dark Matter
November 12, 2020• Physics 13, s145
Researchers use precise clocks and an extremely stable optical cavity to find new constraints on how the dilaton, a hypothesized dark matter particle, interacts with ordinary matter.

Hanacek/NIST
— Read on physics.aps.org/articles/v13/s145