Speaker
Alden Fan
(SLAC/Stanford)
Description
LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) is a next generation direct dark matter detection experiment located at Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, SD. The detector consists of a dual-phase xenon Time Projection Chamber with an active volume of 7 tonnes (5.6 tonne fiducial), shielded by an instrumented liquid xenon skin region, a Gd-loaded liquid scintillator veto, and an ultrapure water veto. LZ is expected to start data taking in April 2020 and is projected to achieve a sensitivity for the spin independent WIMP-nucleon cross section of 1.6e-48 cm^2 at 40 GeV after 1000 live-days of exposure. An overview and the current status of the LZ experiment will be presented.
Primary author
Alden Fan
(SLAC/Stanford)
