This Huge Machine Can Detect Dark Matter
There’s a huge machine hidden in this empty gold mine…
Deep underground nestled in an abandoned gold mine in South Dakota is one of the deepest laboratories in the world. Experiments span the caverns and one just made headlines for detecting what might be one of the greatest mysteries in physics: dark matter.
So what is the Lux-Zeplin detector? And what did it actually find?
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doi: 10.1126/science.zzb1r0n
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Cleo Abram
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