Sitting a mile below ground in an abandoned gold mine in South Dakota is a gigantic cylinder holding 10 tons of purified liquid xenon closely watched by more than 250 scientists around the world. That tank of xenon is the heart of the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment, an effort to detect dark matter--the mysterious invisible substance that makes up 85% of the matter in the universe.
Researchers use purified liquid xenon to search for mysterious dark matter particles
Phys.org - 15 Sep 2022 22:17
Sitting a mile below ground in an abandoned gold mine in South Dakota is a gigantic cylinder holding 10 tons of purified liquid xenon closely watched by more than 250 scientists around the world. That tank of xenon is the heart of the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment, an effort to detect dark matter--the mysterious invisible substance that makes up 85% of the matter in the universe.
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