Speaker
Description
Ann M Wang, SLAC, for the LZ Collaboration
The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment has been collecting data since 2021 to search for evidence of dark matter interactions and other rare physics phenomena using a dual-phase time projection chamber (TPC) filled with 7 tonnes of active xenon. The TPC is surrounded by a veto system designed to reject radioactive and muon backgrounds. The experiment is located at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in South Dakota, USA, and will collect 1000 days of live time in the search for dark matter. LZ has set the most stringent WIMP limits to-date, excluding spin-independent WIMP-nucleon cross sections down to a minimum of 2.2 x 10^{-48} cm^2 for a 43 GeV/cm^2 WIMP mass. In this talk, I will describe the experiment and report on the status and latest results.
