It is published in the January edition of the Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics.

ECONOMIST: A possible particle of dark matter

Note: CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is the world's leading laboratory for particle physics.

UNESCO: THEMES

In July, a team from the European nuclear research facility at Cern, Geneva, announced the detection of a particle that fitted the description of the elusive Higgs.

BBC: Scotland

They are known as fermions, after Enrico Fermi, the physicist who built the first nuclear reactor, and who also gave his name to Fermilab, a particle-physics laboratory near Chicago.

ECONOMIST: Particle physics makes sense, but it assumes too much

The instruments are similar to those used in particle accelerators on Earth such as the Large Hadron Collider at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) outside of Geneva, Switzerland.

ENGADGET: AMS detects excess of positrons, could suggest existence of dark matter