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ZEPLIN-III

http://www.hep.ph.ic.ac.uk/ZEPLIN-III-Project/

Homepage of a collaborative experiment that searches for dark matter constituents. Includes information about the experiment, the collaborators in the UK, Portugal, and Russia, and publications.

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What is Dark Matter?

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/GR/dark_matter.html

One-page explanation of dark matter from the Usenet Physics FAQ, written by Scott I. Chase.

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UK Dark Matter Collaboration

http://hepwww.rl.ac.uk/ukdmc/ukdmc.html

Homepage of a UK-based collaboration that, from 1987 to 2007, operated a series of underground detectors in search of weakly interacting massive particles candidate constituents of dark matter.

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The Picasso Project; A Dark Matter Search Experiment

http://picassoweb.lps.umontreal.ca/

Homepage of a dark matter search experiment presently installed and taking data in an underground laboratory at Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. The experiment uses a superheated droplet detector. Includes links to publications, general information about dark matter, and a list of members of the collaboration.

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The Mystery of Dark Matter

http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/Perimeter_Explorations/The_Mystery_of_Dark_Matter/The_Mystery_of_Dark_Matter/

Video presentation about dark matter, with supplementary teacher's guide and suggested student activities. Part of the outreach efforts of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada.

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The Early History of Dark Matter

http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9904251

Article about the discovery of, and early research on, dark matter by Zwicky, Smith, Babcock and Oort in the 1930's and 1940's. By Sidney van den Bergh (Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, National Research Council of Canada).

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Primer on Dark Matter

http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/guidry/violence/darkmatter.html

Concise illustrated overview of the current status of dark matter. Some basic previous knowledge of astronomy is needed. By Mike Guidry (University of Tennessee, Knoxville).

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Particle Dark Matter: Evidence, Candidates and Constraints

http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0404175

Review article on particle dark matter, with a focus on experimental searches. Suitable for graduate students or advanced undergraduates. By Gianfranco Bertone, Dan Hooper and Joseph Silk.

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Is Dark Matter Theory or Fact?

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=is-dark-matter-theory-or

As part of Scientific American's "Ask the Experts" series, physicists Rhett Herman of Radford University and Shane L. Larson of Montana State University give an accessible account of the evidence for dark matter.

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Found: Most of the Universe

http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2007/02/found_most_of_the_universe.php

Article by "bad astronomer" Phil Plait on the COSMOS survey that has mapped the distribution of dark matter in the cosmos. Published in Seed magazine.

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Experimental Searches for Dark Matter

http://relativity.livingreviews.org/Articles/lrr-2002-4/index.html

Extensive review article about attempts to detect dark matter particles. Includes a summary of the observational evidence for dark matter, and accounts of the different principles of detection. By Timothy J. Sumner; published in "Living Reviews in Relativity".

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Discussion about Dark Matter

http://www.jupiterscientific.org/sciinfo/dmtrans.html

Transcript of an on-air discussion between physicists Michio Kaku and Stuart Samuel on the subject of dark matter. Suitable for a general audience. Aired on WBAI's "Explorations in Science" on December 3, 1997.

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Direct Searches for Dark Matter

http://cosmology.berkeley.edu/preprints/cdms/9901005.pdf

A review of the methods and findings of searches for particle constituents of nonbaryonic dark matter. Requires some previous knowledge of particle physics and cosmology. By Bernard Sadoulet (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California, Berkeley).

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Dark Matter Mystery

http://chandra.harvard.edu/xray_astro/dark_matter.html

Elementary introduction to dark matter, suitable for a general audience. The pages are part of the public outreach effort of the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, and hosted by Harvard University.

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Dark Matter

http://astron.berkeley.edu/~mwhite/darkmatter/dm.html

Description of dark matter, its properties and consequences. Includes texts, plots, graphs and schematics. By Martin White (University of California, Berkeley).

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DAMA

http://www.lngs.infn.it/lngs/htexts/dama/

Homepage of the DArk MAtter experiment, which uses low-activity scintillator to search for particle constituents of dark matter in the Gran Sasso laboratories. Includes information about the experiment itself, members of the collaboration, results, and publications.

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CRESST

http://www.cresst.de/

Homepage of the CRESST experiment (Cryogenic Rare Event Search with Superconducting Thermometers), a European collaboration to search for particle constituents of dark matter in the Gran Sasso laboratories.

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Cosmic Hide and Seek: The Search for the Missing Mass

http://www.eclipse.net/~cmmiller/DM/

Summary of the properties of dark matter, its influence on cosmic evolution, and the different ways it can be detected. Suitable for a general audience; by Chris Miller.

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CDMS Experiment

http://cosmology.berkeley.edu/group/directdet/

Homepage of the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search experiment at the University of California, Berkeley. The experiment uses a large germanium crystal cooled to 20 mK to search for weakly interacting, massive particles (WIMPs) - proposed constituents of dark matter.

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