XENON1T

Deep in the ground: the detector is in a tunnel under Mount Gran Sasso in Italy. Photo courtesy of the Weizmann Institute

"Xenon 1 ton": setting a new limit for dark matter

Light multiplier tubes, PMT, in the XENON1T experiment will record any flash of light that will be produced when a dark matter particle hits a xenon atom. From the accelerator website.

Last call to dark matter