Gran Sasso Search for WIMPs Draws a Blank

摘要

It is rare for a negative result in a physics experiment to produce a high-flying paper for the Top Ten, but that's precisely what has happened this period, with #9, reporting no contact in a dark matter search conducted at Italy's Gran Sasso National Laboratory (LNGS). This paper is of great importance to both particle physics and cosmology because it constrains the assumed particle physics properties of the dark matter candidates required for cosmology.