Speaker
David Woodward
(Penn State University)
Description
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.
Primary author
David Woodward
(Penn State University)
Co-author
David Woodward
(Penn State University)
