LZ experiment

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The LUX–ZEPLIN (LZ) Experiment is a second-generation dark matter direct detection experiment hoping to observe weakly interacting massive particles (WIMP) scattering on nuclei. It was formed in 2012 by combining the LUX and ZEPLIN groups. It is currently a collaboration of 30 institutes in the US, UK, Portugal and South Korea. The experiment is located at about 1,500 metres under the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in South Dakota, and is managed by the United States Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (Berkeley Lab). The experiment uses an ultra-sensitive detector made of 7 tonnes of liquid xenon to hunt for signals of WIMP-nucleus interactions. It is one of three such experiments which lead the search for direct detection of WIMPs above 10 GeV/c2, the other two being the XENON experiment and the PANDAX-4T experiment. In the spring of 2015, LZ passed the "Critical Decision Step 1" or CD-1 review, and became an official DOE project. U.S. Department...

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