Newswire: 16 July 2014 - Next-Generation Dark Matter Experiments Get the Green Light

Last week, the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science and the National Science Foundation announced support for a suite of upcoming experiments to search for dark matter that will be many times more sensitive than those currently deployed. These so-called Generation 2 Dark Matter Experiments include the LUX-Zeplin (LZ) experiment, an international collaboration formed in 2012, managed by DOE's Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (Berkeley Lab) and to be located at the Sanford Underground Resea...