Sentences with phrase «uses liquid xenon»
The Liquid Xenon Gamma - Ray Imaging Telescope (LXeGRIT) is a balloon - borne experiment which uses a liquid xenon time projection chamber (LXeTPC) to image gamma - ray emission from cosmic sources in the 0.15 -10 MeV energy band.
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Results from another Gran Sasso experiment called XENON100, which uses liquid xenon, seemed to exclude the very dark matter particles DAMA was suggesting.
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.
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.
«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.
These rockets — powered by ionized xenon gas — produce very low thrust compared with their solid - or liquid - fueled cousins, but use so little propellant that they last much longer.
LZ would have a 10 - ton liquid xenon target, which will fit inside the same 72,000 - gallon tank of pure water used by LUX.
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.