UCSB scientists are working to make major upgrades to the Large Hadron Collider’s Compact Muon Solenoid detector
dark matter
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With the development of what might become the biggest dark matter experiment in the world, they may even be able to see it
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The premier European science journal Nature opened its annual year-end special “365 DAYS: the year in science” with the Large Underground Xenon (LUX) experiment, the most sensitive dark matter detector in the world.
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Researchers from the Department of Physics and the Kavli Institute for Theretical Physics have received a $1.32 million dollar grant from the NSF to continue their work on finding an answer to whether Einstein's theory of relativity could be...
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A UCSB physics team helped design, build and fill the water tank that houses the Large Underground Xenon (LUX) experiment. With 122 detector tubes, LUX is much more sensitive than its closest rival in the competitive field of dark-matter...
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An experiment to look for one of nature's most elusive subatomic particles is finally under water, in a stainless steel tank nearly a mile underground, beneath the Black Hills of South Dakota.
