Posted by Chris Bird on Sunday, May 9, 2010,
As I predicted, the debate over dark matter detection has already heated up. (See my last post for the background details)
The three experiments with positive dark matter signals (DAMA, CDMS-II, and CoGent) are standing by their results, and at least two of these groups have raised serious concerns about the XENON experiment. And probably with good reason.The three prior experiments had long runs before publishing results, while XENON has run for approximately 11 days. They will run for longer... Continue reading ...
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