Results from XENON10 and
the Race to Detect Dark Matter with Noble Liquids
Detectors based on
liquid noble gasses have the potential to revolutionize the direct search for
WIMP dark matter. The XENON10 experiment, of which I am a
member, has recently announced the results from it's first data run and
is now the leading WIMP search experiment. This and other
experiments using xenon, argon and neon have the potential to rapidly move
from the current kg-scale target mass to the ton scale and well
beyond. This should allow a (nearly) definitive test or
discovery of dark matter if it is in the form of weakly interacting
massive particles.