Fundamental particles and interactions
Particle Physics
How do you detect a particle that emits no light – in other words, something invisible? This is the intriguing challenge faced by scientists hunting for 'dark matter'. In the series finale of the Oxford Sparks Big Questions podcast series, DPhil student Elizabeth Bloomfield from the Department of Physics talks about dark matter – how we know it exists and why her research is taking her deep beneath a mountain in Italy in the quest to find it.