Astrophysics Colloquium

A Clue to the Mystery of Dark Matter: Direct Searches with LZ and XLZD

15 Jan 2024
Seminars and colloquia
Time
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Venue
Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre
Denys Wilkinson Building, Department of Physics, 91探花, Keble Road, 91探花 OX1 3RH
Speaker(s)

Kimberly Palladino 

Seminar series
Astrophysics colloquia
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A Clue to the Mystery of Dark Matter: Direct Searches with LZ and XLZD

Abstract: 鈥淎s physicists, cosmologists and astronomers gather evidence for the existence of Dark Matter, the mystery of its true nature remains. A leading technique to search for heavy particle dark matter is via direct detection with liquid xenon time projection chambers. In this talk I鈥檒l give an update on the search for dark matter, results from the currently running LZ experiment, and the exciting prospects for a future experiment, XLZD, capable of searching for dark matter in the final parameter space available to this technology before nuclear recoils from atmospheric neutrinos would dominate."