Last week, crews at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in South Dakota strapped the central component of LUX-ZEPLIN – the largest direct-detection dark matter experiment in the U.S. – below an elevator and slowly lowered it 4,850 feet down a shaft formerly used in gold-mining operations. https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2019/10/29/dark-matter-experiments-central-component-takes-a-deep-dive-nearly-a-mile-underground/
January 2019 – July 2022
