Speaker
Dr
Dev Ashish Khaitan
(University of Rochester)
Description
LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) is a direct detection dark matter experiment, currently under construction 4850ft underground at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, SD, USA. At the core of the LZ design is a dual-phase liquid Xe time projection chamber (TPC) with a 7 ton active mass. This experiment will achieve a sensitivity of 1.6$\times$10$^{-48}$ cm$^2$ to 40 GeV/c$^2$ WIMPs in a 1000 day exposure. To achieve the backgrounds necessary for this experiment a rigorous radioassay, radon emanation, and cleanliness programs were employed and an active veto detector is built around the TPC. This presentation gives an overview of the LZ experiment, its design goals and construction status.
Author
Dr
Dev Ashish Khaitan
(University of Rochester)
