Korea Invisible Mass Search

The Korea Invisible Mass Search (KIMS), is a South Korean experiment, led by Sun Kee Kim, searching for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), one of the candidates for dark matter.[1] The experiments use CsI(Tl) crystals at Yangyang Underground Laboratory (Y2L), in tunnels from a preexisting underground power plant.[2] KIMS is supported by the Creative Research Initiative program of the Korea Science and Engineering Foundation. It is the first physics experiment located, and largely built, in Korea.[3]

Other research topics include detector development for a neutrinoless double beta decay search and the creation of an extreme low temperature diamond calorimeter.

  1. ^ The Journal of the Korean Physical Society. Korean Physical Society. 2005.
  2. ^ Kiwoon Choi; Jihn E. Kim; Dongchul Son (12 December 2005). Particles, Strings and Cosmology: 11th International Symposium on Particles, Strings and Cosmology; PASCOS 2005. Springer. pp. 75–81. ISBN 978-0-7354-0295-9.
  3. ^ Symmetry: Dimensions of Particle Physics. Fermi National Accelerator Lab. 2006.