Speaker
Carmen Carmona-Benitez
(Pennsylvania State University)
Description
LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) is a direct detection dark matter experiment located at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota. It features a two-phase xenon time projection chamber, surrounded by an instrumented xenon “skin” and liquid scintillator active vetoes. 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 experiment and report on its status.
Primary author
Carmen Carmona-Benitez
(Pennsylvania State University)
