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The xenon detector at the core of the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment
Hundreds of global researchers, including from Imperial College London, are planning the most sensitive dark matter detector ever built.
Dark matter makes up 85 percent of the matter in the Universe, but its nature remains a mystery, with several possible candidate particles. In addition, because it is predicted to interact only very weakly with ordinary matter, it has so far not been detected.
If nature has been kind enough to put dark matter within the reach of any direct detection experiment, then this technology is the best shot we have. Professor Henrique Araújo
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