China's PandaX WIMP detector set to begin operations soon
Friday, January 31, 2014 - 08:30
in Astronomy & Space
(Phys.org) —China's PandaX Dark Matter Experiment is in final preparations to begin operating sometime early this year, representatives for the project have told the press. Its mission is to capture evidence of a Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) colliding with the nucleus of a xenon atom—evidence of dark matter.