Deep beneath the planet’s floor at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in South Dakota, scientists are ready for one thing that will by no means occur – the interplay of weakly interacting large particles, or WIMPs. This is LUX-ZEPLIN, the most delicate dark matter detector on Earth.
WIMPs are a number one contender for dark matter and will reply one in all the largest mysteries in cosmology: the place is the lacking matter that makes up the universe? The detector is crammed with 10 tonnes of ultra-pure liquid xenon and is so delicate that even a single gram of mud would skew its outcomes. A single collision might reveal what most of the universe is made from, or show that a long time of physics could also be pointing us in the unsuitable route.
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