Tag: snolab
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Funding approved for sensitive dark matter detector
SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY NEWS RELEASE The U.S. Department of Energy has approved funding and start of construction for the SuperCDMS SNOLAB experiment, which will begin operations in the early 2020s to hunt for hypothetical dark matter particles called weakly interacting massive particles, or WIMPs. The experiment will be at least 50 times more sensitive…