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RE: Dark blobs as stealthy dark matter
Welcome back @lemouth and thank you for sharing your holiday diaries!
Dark matter is fascinating and one day a team of physicists will probably win the nobel prize for experimentally proving its existence.
I know that there are some theories about the production of dark matter through nuclear reaction between ordinary matter particles.
In that way, is it possible to prove indirectly the existence of dark matter by measuring expected mass or energy loss during collisions of normal matter particles in particle accelerators?
Cheers!
Thanks for welcoming back!
I am looking forward to see this day! hopefully I will still be alive (if not, that could also mean that dark matter should be more elusive and special than initially thought off :D ).
Most of them allows for that. As soon as dark matter interacts in one way or the other with normal matter, it can be produced from the scattering of ordinary particles. This is the point at the basis of the entire dark matter search program at the LHC for instance.
This would actually be a direct proof and not an indirect one, as direct would be directly produced in an accelerator. But what will be detected would be the presence of something missing, exactly as we discussed in the madanalysis project posts.