Sentences with phrase «underground xenon»

Not exact matches

Located almost half a mile underground at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico, protected from cosmic radiation, the sensitive EXO experiment uses 200 kilograms of enriched liquid xenon that could potentially undergo the sought - after decay.

Two weeks later, a radionuclide monitoring station in Yellowknife, Canada, detected increases in radioactive xenon, which presumably had leaked out of the underground test site and drifted eastward.

The LUX detector, located deep underground in Lead, S.D., uses a tank of 370 kilograms of ultra-pure liquid xenon to detect interacting particles by picking out blips of light they produce.

And 4,850 feet underground, in an abandoned South Dakota gold mine, the enormous Large Underground Xenon (LUX) dark matter detector geared up to collect the definitive data on the long - sought dark particles.

And revised analysis of data from another pair of experiments, XENON - 10 and XENON - 100, housed at the Gran Sasso underground lab in Italy, now supports the lightweight signal (arxiv.org/abs/1304.6066).

Their competitors in Europe, including the XENON teamworking at the Gran Sasso underground lab near Rome, Italy, have forgone solids in favor of liquids.

If it all sounds too radical, that may be a good thing: most direct detection experiments, which wait for an ordinary WIMP to collide with the nucleus of a heavy atom like germanium or xenon, have seen nothing (see «Going underground in search of dark matter strikes «-RRB-, for example.