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World's most sensitive dark matter detector completes search
July 21, 2016
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The Large Underground Xenon (LUX) dark matter experiment, which, with the help of Berkeley Lab researchers, operates beneath a mile of rock at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in the Black Hills of South Dakota, has completed its search for the missing matter of the universe. At a meeting in the United Kingdom, LUX scientific collaborators presented the results from the detector's final 20-month run.Full StorySource
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