Conveners
Plenary - Dark Matter
- Richard Schnee (South Dakota Mines)
The search for particle dark matter has seen tremendous progress and developments in the last decade. One of the primary methods for understanding the particle nature of dark matter is through direct detection, and underground laboratories such as SURF have been crucial in these efforts. In this talk, I will provide an overview of the progress made in dark matter direct detection and what we...
The XENONnT experiment, the successor of XENON1T, sets out for the direct detection of dark matter for more than one order of magnitude in sensitivity beyond the current best limits. XENONnT uses a dual-phase Time Projection Chamber with a total of 8.5 tons of liquid xenon, of which 6 tons are in the active volume. The experiment is currently in operation underground at the Laboratori...
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...
