XENON

XENON

The XENON dark matter search experiment aims to detect dark matter in the form of Weakly interacting massive particles by looking for rare interactions via nuclear recoils in a liquid xenon target. The detector consists of a dual phase Time projection chamber . This phased project is operated at Gran Sasso underground laboratory in Italy. The collaboration is led by Elena Aprile, an astrophysics professor at Columbia University.

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Xenon

Xenon is a CPU used in the Xbox 360 game console. The processor, internally codenamed "Waternoose", which was named after Henry J. Waternoose III in Monsters, Inc. by IBM and XCPU by Microsoft, is based on IBM PowerPC instruction set architecture, consisting of three independent processor cores on a single die. These cores are slightly modified versions of the PPE in the Cell processor used on the PlayStation 3. Each core has two symmetric hardware threads, for a total of six hardware threads available to games. Each individual core also includes 32 KiB of L1 instruction cache and 32 KiB of L1 data cache.

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xenon

Noun

  1. A heavy, gaseous chemical element (symbol Xe) of the noble gases group with an atomic number of 54.


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