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Largest-ever dark-matter experiment poised to test popular theory

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XENON1T could make history — or spell the end for 'supersymmetric' dark matter.

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  • 16 November 2015

    This story was updated to include the Gran Sasso National Laboratory, where XENON1T is located, and Italy’s National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), which runs the laboratory.

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  1. Davis, J. H. Preprint at http://arxiv.org/abs/1506.03924 (2015).

  2. Bernabei, R. Preprint at http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.6524 (2014).

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Cartlidge, E. Largest-ever dark-matter experiment poised to test popular theory. Nature (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature.2015.18772

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