Latest LZ results: we've measured something!
Latest LZ results: we've measured something!
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:00pm
- Event date: 22nd May 2026
- Speaker: Dr. Alberto Usón (School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Edinburgh)
- Location: Higgs Centre Seminar Room, Room 4305, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) (James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB)) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Event details
LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) is a direct detection dark matter experiment that utilises a dual-phase time projection chamber (TPC) with 7 tonnes of active xenon at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota. The experiment is primarily designed to detect interactions from weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), a well-motivated class of dark matter candidate. Following the establishment of the most stringent constraints on WIMP-nucleon scattering for masses between 9 GeV/c2 and 10 TeV/c2, LZ has completed a dedicated search for light dark matter in the 3-9 GeV/c2 mass range. The latter result, giving a world-leading limit at masses above 5 GeV/c2, will be one of main topics of this talk.
On top of that, I'll also be discussing our recent 4.5-sigma observation of solar B neutrinos via coherent elastic neutrino–nucleus scattering (CEνNS), demonstrating the sensitivity of large xenon detectors to keV-scale neutrino interactions and marking an important step toward the neutrino fog regime.
About Experimental Particle Physics seminars
The experimental particle physics seminar series invites speakers from all over Europe to discuss the latest developments at the LHC, accelerator and non-accelerator based neutrino physics, hardware R&D and astroparticle physics. .