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I used "strongest candidate" not as my opinion (I don't know) but that is how physicists see the various possibilities. Certainly WIMP research has received the
by rmcpherson 9y ago
I used "strongest candidate" not as my opinion (I don't know) but that is how physicists see the various possibilities. Certainly WIMP research has received the largest amount of funding in experimental physics as compared to other candidates.
- cozzyd 9y ago(I am a physicist who used to work on a WIMP detector). WIMP funding has certainly gotten the largest share of funding. Part of the reason is probably that we know how to build detectors good enough to reach a swath of parameter space and the relative popularity of supersymmetry. I've heard some people suggest that part of the reason for funding such expensive WIMP experiments is that we know exactly where the limits of the detection technique lie and they are reachable given enough money.