{"id":234605,"date":"2026-04-04T02:52:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T07:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/underground-lab-clears-crucial-hurdle-for-dark-matter-hunt"},"modified":"2026-04-04T02:52:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T07:52:55","slug":"underground-lab-clears-crucial-hurdle-for-dark-matter-hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/underground-lab-clears-crucial-hurdle-for-dark-matter-hunt","title":{"rendered":"Underground lab clears crucial hurdle for dark matter hunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/underground-lab-clears-crucial-hurdle-for-dark-matter-hunt2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Australia\u2019s bid to detect elusive dark matter has taken a major step forward, with new research confirming that cosmic radiation levels deep inside the Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory (SUPL) are low enough to support the world-class experiment that will commence later this year.<\/p>\n<p>ARC Center of Excellence for Dark Matter Particle Physics researchers recorded <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-10-dark-scientists-transmissions-deep-underground.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">muon <\/a>\u2014or cosmic radiation\u2014levels inside and outside the laboratory for more than a year. They detected 30,000 muons inside the underground laboratory, while 8.4 billion muons would be expected to be detected on the surface of Earth.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-04-scientists-underground-dark.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">SABRE Collaboration<\/a> paper, <a href=\"https:\/\/linkinghub.elsevier.com\/retrieve\/pii\/S092765052600037X\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Astroparticle Physics<\/i>, is the first to use data collected in SUPL, marking a major achievement for Australian and international scientists involved in the project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia\u2019s bid to detect elusive dark matter has taken a major step forward, with new research confirming that cosmic radiation levels deep inside the Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory (SUPL) are low enough to support the world-class experiment that will commence later this year. ARC Center of Excellence for Dark Matter Particle Physics researchers recorded muon [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}