World's most sensitive detector fails to find dark matter
July 24, 2016  12:25
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The world's most sensitive dark matter detector has failed to yield any trace of the elusive substance thought to account for more than four-fifths of the mass of the universe, even after 20 months of operation.
The Large Underground Xenon (LUX) dark matter experiment, which operates beneath a mile of rock at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in the Black Hills of South Dakota, has completed its silent search for the missing matter of the universe.
LUX's sensitivity far exceeded the goals for the project, scientists said, but yielded no trace of a dark matter particle.
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