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New ultra-sensitive instrument aims to detect hints of elusive dark matter particles

There is five times more dark matter in the universe than “normal” matter—the atoms and molecules that make up the familiar world. Yet, it is still unknown what this dominant dark component actually is. On Nov. 11 an international collaboration of scientists inaugurated the new XENON1T instrument designed to search for dark matter with unprecedented sensitivity at the Gran Sasso Underground Laboratory in Italy. (more…)

Search for Dark Matter Narrowed by New Data From XENON100

By Guest PostApril 16, 2011Sciencebackground radiation, bombarding earth, cosmological observations, dark energy, dark matter, Germany, gran sasso national laboratory, mysterious dark matter, Netherlands, particle physics, particles, universe, weakly interacting massive particles, wimps, xenon collaboration, xenon100 experiment

*Collaboration reveals results from 100-day experiment*

Today, scientists from the XENON collaboration announced the result from their search for the elusive component of our universe known as dark matter. After analyzing one hundred days of data taken with the XENON100 experiment, they see no evidence for the existence of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs), the leading candidates for the mysterious dark matter. The XENON100 experiment is operated deep underground at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory of the Italian National Institute for Physics (INFN). (more…)

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New ultra-sensitive instrument aims to detect hints of elusive dark matter particles

Search for Dark Matter Narrowed by New Data From XENON100