Speaker: Shilo Xia (LBNL)
"LZ Calibration Systems and First Dark Matter Search Results"
The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment utilizes 7 tonnes of active liquid xenon to look for dark matter at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in Lead, South Dakota, USA. It is a low-background, nested detector system centered on a dual-phase time projection chamber (TPC), primarily aiming at detecting xenon nuclear recoil signals induced by Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs). In this seminar, I will talk about the novel features of the calibration systems in LZ that facilitate the realization of its scientific objectives. I will also present the world-leading WIMP search results from LZ’s first 60 live days of data and touch on the outlook of the experiment.
