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Description
The XLZD (XENON-LZ-DARWIN) collaboration is developing the next-generation observatory for dark matter, neutrino and rare-event physics. The detector will use a dual-phase xenon time projection chamber (TPC) with 60 tonnes of active xenon in a volume of approximately 3 meters in both height and diameter.
Xenoscope, at the University of Zurich, is a vertical demonstrator built to address the technical challenges associated with the large scaling up with respect to current experiments. The facility hosts a 2.6m tall TPC to study electron drift, diffusion, and light propagation in liquid xenon. It also serves as a test bench for hardware R&D such as characterising different coating materials or photosensor technologies.
This poster presents the Xenoscope facility and the results from the commissioning of the TPC and its first two science runs, including the observation of correlated S1–S2 signals from cosmic muons.