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Monday, 30 November 2009 10:56 |
 Lead, S.D. -- Sanford Lab personnel and contractors have remodeled a former Homestake warehouse, which will serve as a surface laboratory and assembly facility for a dark-matter detector. The lab includes a clean room, where scientists will assemble and test the Large Underground Xenon dark-matter d… |
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Monday, 20 July 2009 14:08 |
 Surface Facility Program
The LUX Surface Facility at the Sanford Laboratory permits the full testing of the assembly and operation of the LUX detector above ground, prior to installation in the Davis Laboratory underground. The facility infrastructure also allows the commissioning of the underground… |
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Monday, 20 July 2009 14:02 |
 LUX occupies the previous location of Ray Davis’ solar neutrino detection experiment, initiated in 1965, which earned him a Nobel Prize in 2002. The Davis laboratory is one of the deepest science facilities of its size, providing 7 orders of magnitude reduction in the cosmic muon ux. The environmen… |
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Tuesday, 04 November 2008 14:14 |
 By Max Mankin, The Brown Daily Herald Article Source
Richard Gaitskell, associate professor of physics, is hunting dark matter 4,850 feet underground. Hunting dark matter is not as easy as game hunting though, because the elusive particles cannot be detected by telescopes, satelli… |
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