Sentences with phrase «liquid xenon detectors»
Not exact matches
The way we go about this search is to wait for a particle of dark matter to come into contact with our device, which is basically a pot of liquid xenon [an element that is used, in gas form, in the very bright headlights of many new cars] sandwiched between two detectors.
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You can't see it with the naked eye, so to detect this light, we have 178 extremely sensitive one - pixel cameras, called photomultipliers, above and below the liquid - xenon - filled detector.
At Columbia University's Nevis Laboratories in Irvington, New York, Elena Aprile sits in front of a new liquid - xenon - filled detector that is key to her search for dark matter.
«Today we're using a detector that is a third of a ton of liquid xenon.
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.
To shield the detector as much as possible from natural radioactivity in the cavern, the detector (a so - called Liquid Xenon Time Projection Chamber) sits within a cryostat submersed in a tank of water.
Also, as a single nearly spherical liquid target, the xenon system has a much smaller surface - to - volume ratio than multiple germanium detectors and therefore is less susceptible to noise.
LUX consists of one - third ton of liquid xenon surrounded with sensitive light detectors.
A squabble then ensued over whether XENON researchers properly calibrated their detector, which was filled with 100 kilograms of frigid liquid xXENON researchers properly calibrated their detector, which was filled with 100 kilograms of frigid liquid xenonxenon.
The XENON1T central detector, a so - called Liquid Xenon Time Projection Chamber (LXeTPC), is not visible.
LUX consists of a third - of - a-ton of liquid xenon surrounded with sensitive light detectors.
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.