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Jure Zupan

Jure Zupan

Professor of Physics, University of Cincinnati

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The general idea from our paper was discussed in 'The Big Bang Theory' years ago, but Sheldon and Leonard couldn't make it work. We found the neutron flux in the breeding blanket is the key.

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Fusion reactors as dark matter laboratories

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Lead author on fusion reactor axion detection method

Fusion reactors might crack open the dark matter mystery without trying. University of Cincinnati physicist Jure Zupan and colleagues at Fermilab, MIT, and Technion just published a breakthrough showing how neutrons slamming into reactor walls could spawn axions—the hypothetical particles that may explain the 27% of the universe we can't see. The twist: we're already building these reactors for clean energy.

Updated Dec 29, 2025