Speaker
Daniel Kodroff
(Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)
Description
LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) is a direct dark matter detection experiment employing a 7 tonne active volume dual-phase xenon time projection chamber, located nearly a mile underground at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in South Dakota, USA. I will discuss the experiment's status and present recent results from searches for dark matter and coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CE$\nu$NS) from $^{8}$B solar neutrinos. These results include the first $>3\sigma$ evidence of CE$\nu$NS from a cosmic source and world-leading constraints on dark matter–nucleon scattering cross-sections for WIMP masses above $5~\text{GeV}/c^{2}$. I will discuss the implications of these measurements and future prospects for the experiment.
Primary author
Daniel Kodroff
(Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)
