article_snippet.sent: Scientists hope the machine will be able to detect and describe dark matter for the first time .
article_snippet.sent: Called 'dark matter', this substance appears to make up at least 80 per cent of the matter in the known universe.
article_snippet.sent: Now the physicists operating the machine have physicists sights on dark matter, the invisible, undetectable material that makes up 84 per cent of matter in the known universe and binds galaxies together yet whose nature is unknown.
article_snippet.sent: If physicists are able to detect and describe dark matter, it will mark a huge leap forward in our understanding of the known universe.
article_snippet.sent: The search for dark matter involves moving beyond the Standard Model, the all-encompassing theory describing the particles and forces of nature that has stood firm for the past 50 years.
article_snippet.sent: A 'new physics' model of the universe called supersymmetry predicts that every known particle has a more massive partner - and one of these elusive supersymmetry particles might be the source of dark matter.
article_snippet.sent: It would be absolutely lovely to find a candidate for dark matter.
article_snippet.sent: The fact that we don't know what most of the universe is made of is really what drives me on.'
article_snippet.sent: As well as dark matter, Supersymmetry particles is hoping to discover more Higgs bosons and other 'exotic particles' which have never been detected before.
article_snippet.sent: But The current Standard Model does not explain dark matter, which is believed to make up most of the universe, nor dark energy, a mysterious force driving the galaxies ever further apart. '
highlights_snippet.sent: Scientists hope to unravel the mysteries of dark matter, which makes up 84% of the universe but has never been detected before .