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Connecting the visible universe with dark matter


Bill Angel

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Dark matter doesn't interact electromagnetically with itself. If there is a corresponding "dark electromagnetic force" it doesn't seem to be evident with dark matter.

 

What would dark photons help explain?

To quote from the article I referenced:

When a measurement was made of high-energy electron positron pairs in outer space, there were more than could be explained by production from cosmic rays, suggesting that something else, such as dark photons, produces extra pairs.

 

Secondly,

The muon has an anomalous magnetic moment. When the Muon g-2 collaboration measured the muons anomalous magnetic moment, its collaborators were surprised to find that the number they they measured didn't match the number they expected. If this is real, such a discrepancy could be explained by a dark photon of the type and mass that DarkLight experiment is searching for.

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