Xenon100: 'We hope to detect the largest proportion of the matter in space'
Thursday, April 28, 2011 - 10:00
in Astronomy & Space
The underground laboratory at Gran Sasso in Italy is the home of the Xenon100 experiment, which is being conducted as an international collaboration that includes the Heidelberg-based Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics to detect the mysterious particles directly. The researchers recently published the evaluations of one hundred days of measurement time. The result: although there is no significant signal for dark matter as yet, the worlds best limits for the masses and interaction strengths of the WIMPs have been obtained, and already noticeably reach into the predicted range.