Conveners
Searching for dark matter: latest results from the LZ experiment and future prospects: Searching for dark matter: latest results from the LZ experiment and future prospects
- Amy Cottle (UCL)
Description
The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment is a dark matter direct detection experiment operating almost a mile underground at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota. LZ uses a 7 active-tonne dual-phase xenon time projection chamber primarily designed to detect weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), a well-motivated class of dark matter candidate. New world-leading constraints were released last summer, which exclude spin-independent WIMP-nucleon interactions down to a minimum of 2.2 x 10^{-48} cm^2 for a 40 GeV/c^2 WIMP mass. This talk will give a overview of LZ and report on these latest results, as well as searches for other new physics phenomena and plans for the next-generation experiment, XLZD.
