2003/01/13 by S. Mitra, S Mitra, R. Foot +1 · 17 citations
Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research #Chemical and Physical Properties of Materials #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #Dark matter #Granular matter #Kinetic energy #Light dark matter #Mixed dark matter #Mixing (physics) #Organic matter #Scalar field dark matter #astro-ph #hep-ph #physics.space-ph
paper · pdf · open access · doi:10.1016/s0370-2693(03)00217-x
published in Physics Letters B 558(1-2), 9-14 (Elsevier BV) · About 9 pages
arxiv created 2003/01/13 · openalex publication_date 2003/03/26 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
A new and inexpensive technique for detecting self interacting dark matter in the form of small grains in bulk matter is proposed. Depending on the interactions with ordinary matter, dark matter grains in bulk matter may be isolated by using a centrifuge and using ordinary matter as a filter. The case of mirror matter interacting with ordinary matter via photon–mirror photon kinetic mixing provides a concrete example of this type of dark matter candidate.