The Search for Dark Matter at Boulby Mine

General event

The Search for Dark Matter at Boulby Mine

  • Event time: 5:30pm
  • Event date: 15th March 2011
  • Speaker: Dr Chamkaur Ghag (PDRA, Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics)

Event details

Dr Chamkaur Ghag of the School's Nuclear Physics Group will give the Cleveland Institution of Engineers' March lecture.

Talk summary: 

Astronomers are now convinced there is much more out in space than meets the eye. As well as the stars & galaxies we can see on a clear night, observations show there must also be much more matter out there that we cannot see. This is known as 'dark matter‘.

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