This week , the Sanford Lab dedicated an underground skill fortress to research dark matter . The lab is 5,000 feet underground in the mountains of South Dakota , harbor from cosmic radiation .
The lab is on a site that used to do physics inquiry , and was a gold mine before that . The current Sanford Lab , in collaboration with theDeep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory ( DUSEL ) , is the mystifying underground lab in the world . It ’s divided into three levels : the shallow research laboratory , the mid - floor , and the mystifying campus . The rich campus is 6 and a one-half Empire State Buildings abstruse , or around 8,000 foot .
Experiments are already afoot at the 5,000 foot degree , but the research laboratory intends to run its dark thing experiments as deep as possible in a lab called the Xenon detector experiment , or LUX . Doing the experiments deep inside the earth is n’t just a demonstration in mad science ; it ’s also a way to keep out interfering cosmic irradiation .
The result of dark topic in these experiment are so little that any step in radiation could throw off any experiments done at ground level . To get any real datum , these experimentation require a raft of shielding . Thousands of foot of earth should do the job just fine .
This $ 550 million project should be up and run by 2016 . And soon after , it ’ll probably make it ’s SyFy duct first appearance as the site of a big - budget secret disaster moving-picture show !
Sanford Lab dedicate 4,850 feet underground [ Sanford Lab , viaPhysorg ]
( Top double : a 3D mathematical function of the universe ’s glowering matter , from NASA , ESA and R. Massey . Bottom image : Zina Deretsky , National Science Foundation )
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