Bulletin of the American Physical Society
APS April Meeting 2019
Volume 64, Number 3
Saturday–Tuesday, April 13–16, 2019; Denver, Colorado
Session G17: WIMP Dark Matter I
8:30 AM–10:18 AM,
Sunday, April 14, 2019
Sheraton
Room: Grand Ballroom II
Sponsoring
Unit:
DPF
Chair: Bjoern Penning
Abstract: G17.00003 : Status of the LZ Experiment*
8:54 AM–9:06 AM
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Abstract
Presenter:
Nicholas I Chott
(South Dakota School of Mines and Technology)
Author:
Nicholas I Chott
(South Dakota School of Mines and Technology)
Collaboration:
LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ)
LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) is a dark matter experiment under construction at the 4850’ level of the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota. The experiment utilizes a two-phase time projection chamber (TPC), containing seven active tonnes of liquefied xenon, to search for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs). Auxiliary veto detectors, including a liquid scintillator outer detector, improve rejection of unwanted background events in the central region of the detector. LZ has been designed to explore much of the parameter space available for WIMP models, with excellent sensitivity for WIMP masses between a few GeV and a few TeV. With data taking expected to begin in 2020, this talk will report the current status of the LZ experiment.
*This work was supported in part by the Department of Energy (Grants No. DE-SC0014223 and DE-AC02-05CH11231).
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