Speaker
Daniel Kodroff
(Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)
Description
LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) is a direct detection dark matter experiment located nearly a mile underground at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in South Dakota, USA, employing 7 tonnes of active liquid xenon in a dual-phase time projection chamber (TPC). It is further surrounded by a veto system that includes a 2-tonne liquid xenon skin, a gadolinium-loaded liquid scintillator, and an ultra-pure water tank. The experiment has been taking data since 2021, and in 2024 released world-leading constraints on WIMP-nucleon cross-sections for WIMP masses > 9 GeV/c2. This talk will discuss the status of the LZ experiment and report on its recent science results with a specific emphasis on the dark matter parameter space being probed.
Author
Daniel Kodroff
(Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)
