26 de agosto de 2021 to 3 de septiembre de 2021
Europe/Madrid timezone

Status of the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment

30 ago. 2021 17:10
50m
Talk in parallel session Dark Matter and its detection Discussion Panel Dark Matter 1

Ponente

David Woodward (Penn State University)

Descripción

LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) is a dark matter direct detection experiment currently being commissioned at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in Lead, South Dakota. The experiment utilizes a two-phase time projection chamber (TPC) to look for dark matter interactions. The active region of the detector consists of 7 tonnes of liquid xenon with a 5.6 tonne fiducial volume, and is expected to significantly improve our experimental sensitivity to dark matter beyond existing limits set by previous experiments. In this talk, I will give an overview of the LZ project and describe the current status of the experiment, which is expected to start taking science data this year.

Autor primario

David Woodward (Penn State University)

Coautor

David Woodward (Penn State University)

Materiales de la presentación

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