UW News
Bill Kuykendall
March 5, 2019
FASER detector at the Large Hadron Collider to seek clues about hidden matter in the universe
![A computer image of a device that will detect particles in the Large Hadron Collider.](https://uw-s3-cdn.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2019/03/05160032/FASERinTunnel2-768x513-150x150.jpg)
On March 5, the CERN research board approved a new experiment at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva to search for evidence of fundamental dark matter particles. UW scientists are part of this endeavor, the Forward Search Experiment — or FASER — which seeks to answer one of the outstanding questions in particle physics: What is dark matter made of?