Scientists have simply slashed the prospective hiding areas for darkish topic debris.
The LUX-ZEPLIN, or LZ, experiment has looked for and dominated out the life of darkish topic debris with a large swath of homes, researchers record August 26 at two meetings. Darkish topic is a substance whose affect can also be noticed at the scale of galaxies and galaxy clusters, however which hasn’t ever been without delay detected.
LZ searches for a hypothetical form of darkish topic particle known as a weakly interacting large particle, particularly WIMPs with plenty above 9 billion electron volts. (For comparability, a proton has a mass of round 1 billion electron volts). The LZ detector, full of 10 metric heaps of liquid xenon, screens for atomic nuclei recoiling when WIMPs plow into the liquid (SN: 7/7/22).