MultiDark explained

MultiDark (MULTImessenger Approach for DARK Matter Detection) is a Spanish project, with a stated goal of contributing to the identification and detection of dark matter.^[1]

History

The project is a grouping effort, involving many researchers in the Spanish community with a special interest in dark matter. It began on 17 December 2009 and was funded for five years. The project is supported by Consolider-Ingenio, a programme of the Ministry of Economy and Finance.^[2]

Goals

• To analyse in detail the most plausible candidates for dark matter.
• To investigate how they form the dark halos that are believed to surround galaxies.
• To contribute to the development of experiments to detect dark matter.

Further reading

• Book: Bertone , Gianfranco . Particle Dark Matter: Observations, Models and Searches . . 2010 . 762 . 978-0-521-76368-4. Particle Dark Matter . 2010pdmo.book.....B .
• Status and perspectives of indirect and direct dark matter searches . astro-ph/0612786 . Nicolao Fornengo . 2008 . Adv. Space Res. . 41 . 12 . 2010–2018 . 10.1016/j.asr.2007.02.067 . 2008AdSpR..41.2010F. 202740 . Invited talk at the 36th COSPAR Scientific Assembly, Beijing, China, 16–23 July 2006
• The Enigma of the Dark Matter . hep-ph/0110122 . Carlos Munoz (2002) . Contemporary Physics . 43 . 2 . (2002) 51–62. 2002ConPh..43...51K . 10.1080/00107510110102290 . 2002 . 9418892 .
• Dark matter detection in the light of recent experimental results . hep-ph/0309346 . Carlos Munoz (2004) . Int. J. Mod. Phys. A . 19 . 19 . 3093–3170. 2004IJMPA..19.3093M . 10.1142/S0217751X04018154 . 2004 . 2839773 .

External links

• Multimessenger Approach for Dark Matter Detection. Spanish Project of the Consolider-Ingenio 2010 Programme

Notes and References

1. Web site: The researcher of the IFT, Carlos Muñoz, coordinates the CONSOLIDER Project MultiDark. 25 July 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130706040753/http://www.ift.uam-csic.es/en/node/4236. 6 July 2013. dead.
2. Web site: MultiDark. 22 June 2013.