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Description
LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) is a dark matter direct detection experiment located at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota. At the heart of the detector is a dual-phase time projection chamber containing 7 tonnes of active liquid xenon. With a combined exposure of 4.2 tonne-years from the first two science campaigns, LZ has placed the most stringent limits on spin-independent WIMP-nucleon cross section for WIMP masses above $5~\textrm{GeV}/\textrm{c}^{2}$, reaching $2.2 \times 10^{-48}~\textrm{cm}^{2}$ for a $40~\textrm{GeV/c}^{2}$ WIMP mass. LZ has also provided the first >3 σ evidence of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering from $^{8}$B solar neutrinos. In this talk, I will give an overview of the LZ experiment, discuss its status, and report on its latest results in the search for dark matter and other rare phenomena.