6–13 Jul 2022
Bologna, Italy
Europe/Rome timezone

The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment

9 Jul 2022, 15:30
20m
Room 11 (Magenta A)

Room 11 (Magenta A)

Parallel Talk Dark Matter Dark Matter

Speaker

Amy Cottle (University of Oxford)

Description

LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) is a direct detection dark matter experiment located at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota. The experiment consists of three nested detectors; a dual phase xenon TPC, an actively instrumented liquid xenon skin, and an outer detector neutron veto formed by 10 acrylic tanks of gadolinium-loaded liquid scintillator. The active region of the xenon TPC contains 7 tonnes of liquid xenon with a 5.6 tonne fiducial volume, allowing us to reach a WIMP-nucleon spin-independent cross section sensitivity of 1.4 x 10^-48 cm^2 for a 40 GeV/c^2 mass in 1000 live days. This talk will provide an overview of the LZ experiment and report on its status.

In-person participation Yes

Primary authors

Carmen Carmona-Benitez (Pennsylvania State University) Amy Cottle (University of Oxford)

Presentation materials