# VCI2016 - The 14th Vienna Conference on Instrumentation

Feb 15 – 19, 2016
Vienna University of Technology
Europe/Vienna timezone

## PROSPECTS FOR DETECTION OF WIMP DARK MATTER AND COHERENT NEUTRINO SCATTERING WITH THE LUX-ZEPLIN DETECTOR

Feb 18, 2016, 3:15 PM
20m
EI8 (Vienna University of Technology)

### EI8

#### Vienna University of Technology

Gusshausstraße 27-29, 1040 Wien
Talk Astroparticle Detectors

### Speaker

Attila Dobi (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

### Description

The LZ is a second generation dark matter experiment. It is a follow-on to the LUX detector, which is currently the most sensitive WIMP direct detection experiment. The central LZ detector will contain 7 tonnes of active, liquid xenon. Further, LZ is predicted to observe dozens of solar $\rm ^8B$ neutrino interactions via coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering. Along with being extremely sensitive to WIMP dark matter detector LZ may be the first measurement of the coherent neutrino scattering process. Understanding the expected neutrino interaction rates is crucial for extracting the WIMP signal and neutrino properties. I will discuss the status of the LZ experiment along with its projected sensitivity.

### Primary author

Attila Dobi (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)