Dark Matter Experiment Sets New Sensitivity Record

August 26, 2024 • by Staff Writer

The world’s most sensitive dark matter detector still hasn’t found evidence of weakly interacting massive particles, or WIMPs, but the search continues.

A large white cylinder in the middle of scientific equipment and a person in a white, full-body cleanroom suit stands nearby for scale

LZ’s central detector, the time projection chamber, in a surface lab clean room before delivery underground. Credit: Matthew Kapust/Sanford Underground Research Facility.


A circular instrument made up of dozens of round, golden colored detectors

An array of photomultiplier tubes that are designed to detect signals from particle interactions occurring within LZ’s liquid xenon detector. Credit: Matthew Kapust/Sanford Underground Research Facility.

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