It would be a spectacular triumph for CERN to produce a particle that might constitute the dark matter (like the WIMP you suggest). While possible, I consider this outcome to be unlikely.https://twitter.com/malnadi/status/1132847678663143430 …
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Replying to @bgreene
I would add that this is given the experimental results over the past few years, which have heavily constrained the WIMP parameter space. Initially, they were a good guess but nature just didn't say yes.
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Replying to @InertialObservr @bgreene
But these constraints rely on interactions of Baryonic matter as we know it? Isn't it true that the only known interactions DM experiences is gravitation? So the constraints are imposed on interactions that may not even happen? Sorry for the rookie questions. I am a rookie.
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It *could* be that they interact only gravitationally, but the parameter space doesn’t rule out them also interacting with other forces weakly, so this is what we’re looking for.
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