Speaker
Kimberly Palladino
(University of Wisconsin Madison)
Description
LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) is a forthcoming experiment designed to directly detect WIMP dark matter. It aims to detect WIMP interactions with a liquid xenon time projection chamber containing 5.6 tonnes of xenon in the fiducial volume. LZ is projected to have a sensitivity to the spin-independent WIMP-nucleon cross section of 2.3x10^-48 cm^2 for a 40 GeV/c^2 mass WIMP after 1000 days of livetime. An overview of LZ's design and progress towards fabrication and installation in the Sanford Underground Research Facility, where data-taking is scheduled to commence in 2021, will be presented.
Primary author
Kimberly Palladino
(University of Wisconsin Madison)
