Physics:MultiDark

MultiDark (MULTImessenger Approach for DARK Matter Detection) is a Spanish project, with a stated goal of contributing to the identification and detection of dark matter.

History

The project is a grouping effort, involving many researchers in the Spanish community with a special interest in dark matter. It began on 17 December 2009 and is funded for five years. The project is supported by Consolider-Ingenio, a programme of the Ministry of Economy and Finance.

Goals

• To analyse in detail the most plausible candidates for dark matter.
• To investigate how they form the dark halos that are believed to surround galaxies.
• To contribute to the development of experiments to detect dark matter.

Further reading

• Bertone, Gianfranco (2010). Particle Dark Matter: Observations, Models and Searches. Cambridge University Press. pp. 762. ISBN 978-0-521-76368-4. Bibcode: 2010pdmo.book.....B. 
• Nicolao Fornengo (2008). "Status and perspectives of indirect and direct dark matter searches". Adv. Space Res. 41 (12): 2010–2018. doi:10.1016/j.asr.2007.02.067. Bibcode: 2008AdSpR..41.2010F.  Invited talk at the 36th COSPAR Scientific Assembly, Beijing, China, 16–23 July 2006
• Carlos Munoz (2002) (2002). "The Enigma of the Dark Matter". Contemporary Physics 43 (2): (2002) 51–62. doi:10.1080/00107510110102290. Bibcode: 2002ConPh..43...51K. 
• Carlos Munoz (2004) (2004). "Dark matter detection in the light of recent experimental results". Int. J. Mod. Phys. A 19 (19): 3093–3170. doi:10.1142/S0217751X04018154. Bibcode: 2004IJMPA..19.3093M. 

External links

• Multimessenger Approach for Dark Matter Detection. Spanish Project of the Consolider-Ingenio 2010 Programme