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SUMMARY:Status of the LZ Dark Matter Experiment
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DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Sally Shaw (UCSB)\nThe fundamental nature of our uni
 verse is still mostly unknown: 84% of the matter in the universe is dark a
 nd qualitatively different to everything we understand via the Standard Mo
 del. Terrestrial experiments devoted to detecting interactions of dark mat
 ter particles have not yet seen a convincing signal\, but we may be on the
  cusp of discovery. The LUX-ZEPLIN experiment (LZ) will be the largest dar
 k matter detector of its kind\, consisting of a 7T liquid xenon target\, a
 n 2T active skin veto and a 17T gadolinium-loaded liquid scintillator neut
 ron veto. With science data taking beginning this year\, LZ will probe the
 oretically well-motivated regions of dark matter phase space to reach area
 s currently unexplored\; the predicted spin-independent cross section is 1
 .4x10-48cm2 for a 40 GeV/c2 mass WIMP. I will give an overview of the LZ e
 xperiment and its current status.\n\nhttps://indico.physics.ucsd.edu/event
 /1/contributions/31/
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