---
title: "Experiment At Jefferson Lab Is On The Hunt For Dark Photons"
description: "Scientists working on a new experiment to be conducted at Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Virginia hope to shed light on some of those cosmic unknowns known as dark photons"
date: "2014-12-04"
modified: "2014-12-04"
authors:
  - name: "Andreea Popescu"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/andreeathecat"
url: "https://futurism.com/experiment-jefferson-lab-hunt-dark-photons"
categories:
  - "Future Society"
---

# Experiment At Jefferson Lab Is On The Hunt For Dark Photons

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- The heavy photon could be the key to a whole rich world with many new dark particles and forces
- Although the idea of heavy photons has been around for almost 30 years, it gained new interest just a few years ago when theorists suggested that it could explain why several experiments detected more high-energy positrons
- Scientists believe that heavy photons also called dark photons, might be mediators of such a dark force, just as regular photons are carriers of the electromagnetic force between normal charged particles