Dark Matter Search is On... kinda

We have "officially" started the Dark Matter Search phase of the XENON Experiment... kinda. We have placed the detector inside the shield, and we are for the first time looking at low background data - this is great news! However, the low background is not that low, and we still have some work to do before we can actually (officially without the quotation marks) say that we are searching for Dark Matter. We are getting there, though.

Here is a picture of some of the XENON group in front of the detector and shield before we closed it.