WIMP
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- noun
- /wɪmp/
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WIMP
- Earth, too, could be pooling WIMPs in its core.
- WIMPs particles
- WIMPs interacting
- WIMP search
Machos and Wimps are candidates for the dark matter, and those stand for weakly interacting massive particles.
- Machos and Wimps are candidates for the dark matter, and those stand for weakly interacting massive particles.
- Wimps has didn't find any evidence for WIMP annihilation.
- Terms such as cue balls, which is a weird name, Wimps, which basically means for weak interacting massive particles, but they don't know what it is, right?
Examples
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Several underground experiments, designed originally to learn whether protons decay, are already on the lookout for this WIMP-related signal.
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And there are other ways that dark-matter particles, particularly the WIMPs, might give themselves away.
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There could be other explanations of WIMP dark matter, of course.
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A single two-pound crystal might experience anywhere from one to one thousand WIMP interactions each day, depending on the nature of the WIMP.
Academic text (1993) -
I think the chance of having supersymmetry without WIMP-based dark matter is close to zero.
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I don't think WIMPs will make up all of the dark matter, though.
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The three-pronged WIMP search is deemed to be essential for discovery and elucidation.
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WIMPs are presumed to be their own antiparticles and therefore capable of mutual annihilation.
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WIMPs: These particles pop up in equations when theorists try to unify nature's various forces.
Academic text (1993) -
Scientists believe that a WIMP could account for much of the universe's missing mass.
Synonyms
A heavy particle that hardly interacts with normal matter and may make up dark matter in space
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word WIMP comes from the first letters of the words weakly, interacting, massive, particle. A helpful image is a shy, 'heavy' particle that hardly touches ordinary matter, which explains why WIMPs are hard to detect and are thought to make up dark matter.