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Meanings of weakly interacting massive particle in English

Russian
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Portuguese
partícula massiva que interage fracamente
Spanish
wimps
Catalan
partícula massiva d'interacció feble

Dark matter candidate.

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Examples for "WIMP"
Examples for "WIMP"
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But physicists, especially those favoring the WIMP theory of dark matter, remain skeptical.
Wired
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Then wait for a passing WIMP to bang into a xenon atom's nucleus.
Wired
3
In this scenario, a WIMP would tap an atomic nucleus via the weak force.
Wired
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Its eyes were interferometers and WIMP detectors and ghost imagers.
Engineering Infinity
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Yet bond investors suggest regulators cannot be relied on to wimp out.
Reuters
Usage of weakly interacting massive particle in English
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The search provides sensitivity to a broad range of new-physics models that yield a stable weakly interacting massive particle.
Pubmed
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The bigger the detector, the more likely it'll catch a weakly interacting massive particle, or WIMP, a hypothesized dark matter particle.
Wired