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Description
LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) is a dark matter direct detection experiment located 4,850 feet underground at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in South Dakota. The detector is a dual-phase Time Projection Chamber (TPC) that utilizes 7 tonnes of liquid xenon (LXe) as its target medium to search for dark matter interactions, primarily from the highly-motivated candidate Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs), as well as from some other candidates beyond the Standard Model. LZ continues to constrain parameter-space for dark matter as it acquires more data towards its goal of 1,000 days of live time. This talk will present LZ’s new 3 – 9 GeV/c2 light dark matter search results, where LZ is world-leading above 5 GeV/c2, along with the most significant evidence to-date for solar boron-8 coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering in LXe TPCs.