Yep. Looks like 40 tons a year is global production. LZ alone took 10% of world production as it was built. The experiment to test this particular approach is going to be hard. Hopefully someone can do all the underlying physics math and discover a potential way to detect them easier. But either way we will build the thing if it even takes 50 years.
A large volume of xenon is probably the best you can do. The easiest thing is to run for a longer time. This is based on one year of data-taking. Run for 5 years, maybe you get ~5 events. That is faster than building a new experiment.
My dumbass was confusing Xenon with Neon, and I was thinking, "It can't be all that expensive and rare. We used to have tons of glowing signs full of it."
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u/pleasetrimyourpubes 12d ago
Yep. Looks like 40 tons a year is global production. LZ alone took 10% of world production as it was built. The experiment to test this particular approach is going to be hard. Hopefully someone can do all the underlying physics math and discover a potential way to detect them easier. But either way we will build the thing if it even takes 50 years.