In a gold mine at the edge of a rugged mountain range, scientists are searching for something no-one has ever seen.
Elisabetta Barberio says the pursuit of new scientific horizons often has flow-on benefits for industry.
No detection is just as valuable to researchers as a detection: It tells them where they shouldn't be looking to find dark matter. In short, it'll be a pretty big deal for humanity's collective understanding of the mass that makes up 85 per cent of the universe.She moved into the field after working at Switzerland's Large Hadron Collider, and helping with research to confirm the existence ofAs the director of the University of Melbourne's particle physics research centre, she was part of the team that pushed for Stawell as the location for SABRE.
In the northern hemisphere, this project would take place under a towering mountain or by the side of a tunnel.Funding was committed, but the plans gathered dust for several years as the gold mine shut while it changed owners several times.
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