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Recently , along with collaborators ( Fan , Katz , and Reece ), I have been exploring a scenario in which only a fraction of the dark matter has stronger interactions . Most of it acts like dark matter is supposed to act , with very weak interactions .
However , the interacting portion can be very interesting . It can collapse into a disk and have very different signals for dark
NASA CXC M . Weiss “ bullet cluster ” matter detection and when two galaxy clusters pass very different consequences for through each other , most of the structure formation . This very new matter passes through — unlike the scenario had not been explored gas of known matter which interacts and concentrates in the center . esting questions
yet , and gives rise to many inter- .
It ’ s my understanding that the AMS has been conducting research about dark matter that suggests that you were right . Is that true ?
M . M .
L . R .
AMS can look for antimatter in the universe , such as anti-electrons ( positrons ). It turns out there are more positrons at higher energies than astrophysicists had predicted based on known astrophysical sources . So it is conjectured that this signal arises from dark matter — although in principle it could be more conventional sources that are not understood . The problem is that the signal from
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Recently , along with collaborators ( Fan , Katz , and Reece ), I have been exploring a scenario in which only a fraction of the dark matter has stronger interactions . Most of it acts like dark matter is supposed to act , with very weak interactions .

However , the interacting portion can be very interesting . It can collapse into a disk and have very different signals for dark

NASA CXC M . Weiss “ bullet cluster ” matter detection and when two galaxy clusters pass very different consequences for through each other , most of the structure formation . This very new matter passes through — unlike the scenario had not been explored gas of known matter which interacts and concentrates in the center . esting questions

yet , and gives rise to many inter- .

It ’ s my understanding that the AMS has been conducting research about dark matter that suggests that you were right . Is that true ?

M . M .

L . R .

AMS can look for antimatter in the universe , such as anti-electrons ( positrons ). It turns out there are more positrons at higher energies than astrophysicists had predicted based on known astrophysical sources . So it is conjectured that this signal arises from dark matter — although in principle it could be more conventional sources that are not understood . The problem is that the signal from

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