Speaker
Bhawna Gomber
(University of Wisconsin (US))
Description
LZ is a second-generation dark-matter experiment designed to achieve unprecedented sensitivity to weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) of masses from a few GeV/c to hundreds of TeV/c2. With total liquid xenon mass of about 10 tonnes, LZ is planned to achieve a sensitivity to WIMP-nucleon spin-independent cross section approaching ∼2⋅10−48 cm2 in 3 years of operation. This represents an improvement of almost three orders of magnitude over current results, covering a substantial range of theoretically-motivated dark matter candidates. We will present aspects of LZ’s designs that permit achievement of this planned sensitivity.
Primary author
Bhawna Gomber
(University of Wisconsin (US))
