Video: Dark matter hunt with LUX-ZEPLIN
Slac National Accelerator Laboratory
SLAC is helping to build and test the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) detector, one of the biggest and most sensitive detectors ever designed to catch hypothetical dark matter particles known as weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs). Credit: Greg Stewart/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Researchers at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory are on a quest to solve one of physics’ biggest mysteries: What exactly is dark matter – the invisible substance that accounts for 85 percent of all the matter in the universe but can’t be seen even with our most advanced scientific instruments? Leading candidates for dark matter particles are WIMPs, or weakly interacting massive particles. The following video explains how it works. Credit: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Explore further New theory on the origin of dark matter