The Quest For Dark Matter Remains; LUX and LHC Seen Undefined Signals?

Much of the world we know is made up of mass and energy, and that at least a fraction of it is of dark matter. Needless to say, scientists have been carefully studying its existence over time.

Recently, the people behind the LUX (Large Underground Xenon) project have been continuously undertaking all means possible to ensure the existence of dark matter. However, any indication as to finding dark matter after almost 2 years of continued tests have been quite rough, according to WCCFTech.

The LUX experiment to finding dark matter has been set since 2013, and according to Brown University's physics professor/researcher Rick Gaitskell, the said instrument has been pushed to its limits lately in hopes of detecting a clear amount of dark matter. Still to no avail, though.

Considered as the world's most sensitive "dark matter" detector, LUX has the capability to determine weakly interacting massive particles during normal and dark matter interactions. As of this writing, the researchers and collaborators involved in the search for evidence of dark matter have just been able to detect fake particle interactions.

In Europe, the unending quest for dark matter has also been going on at a Swiss research facility, in a related Science Daily post. The CERN facility (European Organization for Nuclear Research) in Geneva, Switzerland, make use of the LHC as another instrument to determine dark matter existence together with normal matter.

The Large Hadron Collider or LHC, as it is better called, is a powerful particle accelerator that uses super magnets and an ultrahigh vacuum inside for the same purpose as what their fellows in the U.S. are doing: for dark matter research. Several theories have been thought of to figure a more resolute way to successfully observe dark matter. One of these theories deals with EFTs (Effective Field Theories).

@lbaudis Also the LHC experiments are sensitive to low mass #DarkMatter https://t.co/gM0707h6DS pic.twitter.com/vxkeJmkaNg

— Tristan du Pree (@Tristan_duPree) June 22, 2016

Until then, scientists are still somehow groping in the dark for answers and evidence. Whatever dark matter really is, it could end up being useful not just in the field of science, probably in more concrete areas (such as astrophysics or nuclear science) as well.