The
Large Underground Xenon experiment (
LUX) physics experiment aims to directly detect
weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP)
dark matter interactions with ordinary matter on Earth. Despite the wealth of evidence supporting the existence of non-
baryonic dark matter in the Universe, dark matter in our galaxy has never been directly detected on Earth. LUX utilizes a 370 kg liquid
xenon detection mass in a
time-projection chamber (TPC) to identify individual particle interactions, searching for faint dark matter interactions with unprecedented sensitivity.