page_title: UK Dark Matter Collaboration
hierarchical_section_title: UK Dark Matter Collaboration
caption_attribution_description: English: No WIMPS here - entrance to Boulby Mine. The underground laboratory for Dark Matter Research, 1,100 metres underground, within Cleveland Potash's Boulby Mine was officially opened on 18 April 2003. The experiment was conceived to search for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) and is run by a consortium consisting of astrophysicists and particle physicists from the United Kingdom. The aim is to detect rare scattering events which would occur if galactic dark matter ('the missing mass of the Universe') consists largely of a new heavy neutral particle. Sadly none of the elusive particles have yet been found. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_Dark_Matter_Collaboration http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tees/2981103.stm http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/missing.shtml http://www.hep.shef.ac.uk/research/dm/boulby/boulby.php There is a wider photo of the mine entrance here 881438, where the underground laboratory sign is visible, but not legible.
context_page_description: The UK Dark Matter Collaboration was an experiment to search for Weakly interacting massive particles. The consortium consisted of astrophysicists and particle physicists from the United Kingdom, who conducted experiments with the ultimate goal of detecting rare scattering events which would occur if galactic dark matter consists largely of a new heavy neutral particle. Detectors were set up 1,100 m underground in a halite seam at the Boulby Mine in North Yorkshire.
context_section_description: The UK Dark Matter Collaboration (UKDMC) (1987–2007) was an experiment to search for Weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs). The consortium consisted of astrophysicists and particle physicists from the United Kingdom, who conducted experiments with the ultimate goal of detecting rare scattering events which would occur if galactic dark matter consists largely of a new heavy neutral particle.  Detectors were set up 1,100 m (3,600 ft) underground in a halite seam at the Boulby Mine in North Yorkshire.
caption: Entrance to Boulby Mine, with UKDMC sign
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