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Tailored for undergraduate researchers, this calendar is a curated list of research seminars at the University of Illinois. Explore the diverse world of research and expand your knowledge through engaging sessions designed to inspire and enlighten.

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High Energy Physics Seminar - Scott Haselschwardt - (University of Michigan) "New Results from the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Experiment’s Search for Dark Matter"

Event Type
Seminar/Symposium
Sponsor
Department of Physics
Location
Room 464
Date
Nov 15, 2024   11:00 am  
Speaker
Scott Haselschwardt - (University of Michigan)
Contact
Brandy Koebbe
E-Mail
BKOEBBE@ILLINOIS.EDU
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Physics - High Energy Physics Seminar

The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment, located at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota, is primarily designed to search for rare interactions between ordinary matter and galactic dark matter particles. The experiment employs a 7-tonne liquid xenon time-projection chamber surrounded by a three-component veto system: a liquid-xenon skin, a nearly-hermetic Gd-loaded liquid scintillator, and an instrumented tank of ultra-pure water. In this talk I will present the newest results from LZ’s search for dark matter using a 4.2 tonne-year exposure of the instrument, comprising the largest search exposure from a dark matter direct detection experiment to date. 

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