The new dark matter detector, called the LUX-ZEPLIN, has been shown to be the most sensitive ever. It may be the best way to find dark matter particles.
There is a person by the name ofLeah Crane.
The dark matter detector at the South Dakota research facility is the most sensitive it has ever been.
Matthew Kapust has a research facility.
There is a new pair of eyes looking for dark matter. A test run of the LUX-ZEPLIN detector in South Dakota has shown it to be the most sensitive dark matter detector yet created, and researchers are getting ready to turn it on.
There is a huge titanium tank filled with 10 tons of liquid xenon. A burst of light is created by a particle hitting a xenon atom and is measured by a series of detectors. The light's properties can be analysed to find out what caused it. The tank is surrounded by a larger tank of water and the whole thing is buried more than a kilometer underground in an old gold mine.
The center of LZ is the most pure place on the planet. There is no other volume of space like that on this planet. We won't be able to find anything because of the amount of dust in the detector.
Researchers have been trying to find dark matter particles for decades, but have been unsuccessful. LZ is the most sensitive yet according to a 3.5 month test run. When we looked at the data we took, we said we were already the world's best. If you build a new car and take it around the block, you break the world landspeed record.
Three months wasn't enough to find dark matter. We wouldn't have enough data to say what it was even if some came through the detector.
He says that they are the best at finding nothing. It's possible to find new physics a few years from now.
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