Minnesota researcher’s findings on dark matter jibe with Italy’s DAMA/LIBRA claims

(PhysOrg.com) — Sparking controversy in the small circle of physicists working to resolve the issue of whether dark matter actually exists, Juan Collar, spokesman for the CoGeNT project in the Soudan mine in Minnesota, spoke recently at the American Physical Society meeting and disclosed that his team has found results similar to those experienced by the DAMA/LIBRA team in Italy over the past several years, which show an excess of low energy interactions in their germanium crystal detectors, that his group can’t explain any other way but to ascribe it to the existence of dark matter.

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Minnesota researcher’s findings on dark matter jibe with Italy’s DAMA/LIBRA claims