As that describes WIMPs rather well, Dr Kuhlen and his colleagues included it in their model.
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Calculations suggest that when WIMPs and antiWIMPs meet, one product will indeed be a lot of positrons.
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WIMPs (also not yet observed because, as the name suggests, they would practically never interact with ordinary matter).
WIMPs met (which should happen quite frequently in the centre of the earth) they would annihilate one another.
Colliding and annihilating Wimps ought to produce showers of these electrons and positrons.
WIMPs, if they exist, would be heavy (at least in sub-atomic terms).
But corn farmers, or indeed any others who want to turn to growing nuts, peaches or chillies for wimps instead, are in trouble.
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Call us wimps, but we like the extra bite at the front of a 450-plus-hp 911 Turbo, given the car's tremendous rear-weight bias.
Indian bosses tend to argue that they are building for the long term and hint that return on capital is for wimps and nitpickers.
Many believe Treasurys are for wimps, widows and orphans who hold them to maturity and are satisfied with low returns as a trade-off for safety.
WIMPs and other strange inmates of the sub-atomic zoo continues apace.
In 1990, Dr. Turner and a colleague suggested a way in which WIMPs might be discovered in galaxies, which provided the theoretical underpinning for the AMS experiment.
The idea is that when WIMPs crash into each other, they annihilate and produce two particles electrons and positrons which are much easier to detect than the WIMPs themselves.
The long hours, 'lunch is for wimps' business culture, which saw British managers become some of the world's hardest working, is on the wane, a survey has revealed.
Americans, it seems, are wimps when it comes to spice.
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However, he admits that there is always the chance that these experiments may find nothing at all - and dark matter may not be in the form of WIMPs.
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"All of these experiments are zeroing in on the outrageous idea that most of the matter in the universe is" made up of WIMPs, a new form of matter.
Their simulation starts about 50m years after the Big Bang, when the first galaxies formed, and calculates the interactions of a billion WIMPs over the intervening 13.7 billion years.
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One possible explanation for these positrons is the mutual annihilation of the matter and antimatter forms of a type of dark matter called weakly interacting massive particles, also known as WIMPs.
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Wimps, stop talking about double and triple tops.
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There are several underground experiments worldwide that are aiming to detect these dark matter "WIMPs, " such as the LUX Dark Matter experiment in the Black Hills of South Dakota, where liquid xenon is stored a mile underground.
WIMPS. The more massive members of each lepton pair are the electrically charged electron (the outer constituent of atoms) and two other particles that resemble electrons in all measurable ways except that they are heavier, and are unstable in today's modern universe.
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