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Technical University of Munich (TUM)

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By carefully re-engineering a detector for heavy dark matter particles, so-called WIMPS, the CRESST collaboration succeeded in improving the detector to measure lightweight dark matter particles with masses in the range of a proton mass.

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Photo: Max Planck Institute for Physics

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