FQxI physicist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, of the University of New Hampshire, in Durham, has received approximately $1 million as one of 39 national recipients of the DOE’s Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR). She will use her award to investigate ultralight dark matter. Speaking to UNH Today, Prescod-Weinstein said, “One of the biggest open questions in physics is the nature of dark matter...It makes up 85% of the gravitating matter in the universe, yet we don’t know what kind of particle it is.”
You can hear Prescod-Weinstein talking about her work on axions, a class of hypothetical particles that may make up the dark matter, with Zeeya Merali on the FQxI podcast, where she also discusses her recent book, The Disordered Cosmos.