Hunting a basic building block of the universe- The Harvard Gazette

Frank Wilczek, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist who first proposed axions, credits these findings as a major breakthrough in the study of these particles.

“The jury is still out on the existence of axions as fundamental particles that beautify the basic equations of physics and provide the cosmological dark matter,” Wilczek said. “But now, thanks to these ingenious new experiments, we know for sure that the Nature makes use of the underlying ideas. Axions now join holes, phonons, plasmons, and a handful of other ‘quasiparticles’ we find emerging as ingredients of matter, available for new scientific and technological creations.”

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