We employ the Atom Trap Trace Analysis (ATTA) technique to measure ultralow 85Kr contamination in liquid Xe detectors, used by the XENON Collaboration to directly detect dark matter.

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From left to right: Luke Goetzke, Claire Allred, Tanya Zelevinsky, Elena Aprile, Christine McClean (2010 REU Student), Evan Biederstedt (Columbia undergraduate).