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Notably, the possibilities are quasi-finite because of the solar neutrino noise floor. When we reach that, we stop needing to scale to 10x larger detectors for a 90% reduction in reaction cross section, and they start to need to be 100x larger, in my understanding.

Even in a world with WIMPs, we aren't necessarily privileged to have them show up above the solar neutrino noise floor.

It's going to be funny if the reason we get a mission to Neptune's moon Triton a century from now is to house a dark matter search experiment, once the cost for continuing to scale Earth's search becomes dramatically worse.

parent mapt 2 years ago

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