Sentences with phrase «liquid xenon cooled»
Takeuchi has spurred efforts to construct another detector in the Kamioka mine, known as XMASS, that uses a one - ton tank of liquid xenon cooled to -100 °C to observe collisions between WIMPs and the frigid noble gas.
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Many of them rely on high - purity materials such as liquid xenon and germanium crystals, cooled to low temperatures and placed in deep mines to shield the devices from the continuous spray of ordinary particles that strike Earth's atmosphere.
The new instrument, containing 3.5 tons of ultra-pure noble gas Xenon cooled to nearly -140 degrees Fahrenheit to make it liquid, is installed inside a 10 - meter - wide water shield to protect it from radioactive background radiation.