XENON Dark Matter Search Experiment
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The XENON Dark Matter Search Experiment aims to construct a next-generation dark matter detector, which will use liquid xenon as the target material for finding Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs). The collaboration is lead by Elena Aprile, an astro-physics professor at Columbia University.
A 15 kg liquid xenon detector was installed at Gran Sasso underground laboratory in Italy during March 2006, and is currently taking data searching for WIMP interactions.
Participating universities include Brown (US), Case Western (US), Columbia (US), Gran Sasso National Laboratory (Italy), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (US), Rice (US), Coimbra (Portugal), RWTH-Aachen University (Germany), and Yale.
More information can be found at http://xenon.astro.columbia.edu/ , http://xenon.brown.edu
Current results from other experiments searching direcly from WIMP Dark Matter interactions can be found at http://dmtools.berkeley.edu/limitplots/
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