Speaker
Description
The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment is a low-threshold, low-background dark matter detector deployed 4850 feet underground at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota, USA. The primary detector volume is a time projection chamber (TPC) containing 7 tonnes of liquid xenon. CEvNS interactions in this volume deposit O(1) keV of energy, a regime to which LZ is sensitive. Via CEvNS, LZ will be able to observe the neutrino signal from the next galactic core-collapse supernovae (CCSN). We demonstrate LZ’s sensitivity to CEvNS interactions from a CCSN and discuss how the detector response is modeled.
LZ utilizes a custom data acquisition system (DAQ) based on the Kintex-7 Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) from Xilinx. We discuss the role of the DAQ in LZ’s search for the CCSN neutrino signal, and show how a real time DAQ trigger on the neutrino signal will be implemented.
