[Colloquium] Dark matter and neutrino detection from 4850 feet underground
Date and Time
Location
Kavli Auditorium in the KITP
Speaker: Hugh Lippincott (UCSB)
Title: Dark matter and neutrino detection from 4850 feet underground
Abstract: In this talk, I’ll describe searches for dark matter with the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) detector, consisting of a 7 tonne liquid xenon time projection chamber surrounded by 17 tonnes of Gadolinium loaded liquid scintillator in the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in South Dakota. Solar neutrinos were originally observed by Ray Davis in the same cavern that now hosts LZ, and I’ll describe the recent observation of solar neutrinos interacting with the xenon of LZ, marking a new era in direct dark matter searches and the first steps into the so-called neutrino fog.
