21 January 2016
Scientists have begun calibrating China's first dark matter probe, dubbed "Wukong" - Monkey King, in order to produce more accurate data, more than a month after the detector started to search for signals of the invisible material. Chang Jin, DAMPE chief scientist and vice director of the Purple Mountain Observatory, said Wukong has already collected more than 100 million high energy particles, including protons, alpha and cosmic-ray particles and nuclides. Scientists will look for high-energy electrons and gamma rays among them, which could be residue of dark matter's annihilation or decay.
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