New results from world's most sensitive dark matter detector
Monday, December 14, 2015 - 10:04
in Astronomy & Space
The Large Underground Xenon (LUX) dark matter experiment, which operates nearly a mile underground at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in the Black Hills of South Dakota, has already proven itself to be the most sensitive detector in the hunt for dark matter, the unseen stuff believed to account for most of the matter in the universe. Now, a new set of calibration techniques employed by scientists has again dramatically improved the detector's sensitivity.