The EDELWEISS experiment has tried to detect "dark matter" with a direct measuring method. For this purpose, the international collaboration operated Germanium bolometers in the LSM underground laboratory at Modane, which generate an ionisation and heat signal when a potential dark matter particle is hit on a germanium atomic nucleus.
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