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Space Applications Challenge
                 LCB Depot, Leicester


Detecting Dark Matter with a Teaspoon
                      G.W. Fraser
      Director, University of Leicester Space Research Centre
1.   Origin of the eye-catching but obviously spurious title
     dark matter detection is a hot topic (AMS-2 on the ISS - Physical Review
     Letters 110, 5th April 2013) and AMS is a bit bigger than a teaspoon

     but ....

     and by the way, how many more space particle detectors have
     you got with you ?

     and who invented the world’s most sensitive space dust and debris detector
     (by accident)?

     And finally, what have Lobsters got to do with ISS (and teaspoons) ?

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Dark matter and teaspoons

  • 1. Space Applications Challenge LCB Depot, Leicester Detecting Dark Matter with a Teaspoon G.W. Fraser Director, University of Leicester Space Research Centre
  • 2. 1. Origin of the eye-catching but obviously spurious title dark matter detection is a hot topic (AMS-2 on the ISS - Physical Review Letters 110, 5th April 2013) and AMS is a bit bigger than a teaspoon but .... and by the way, how many more space particle detectors have you got with you ? and who invented the world’s most sensitive space dust and debris detector (by accident)? And finally, what have Lobsters got to do with ISS (and teaspoons) ?