Conveners
Overview and DM
- Chloé Malbrunot (TRIUMF)
Xenon-based detectors have become a central tool in rare-event physics, with liquid xenon playing a leading role in the search for dark matter and shaping a generation of ultra-low-background detector technologies. In this talk, I will survey the current landscape of xenon experiments through the lens of rare-event searches, with emphasis on the dark matter programs and the technical...
The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment has been searching since 2021 for a form of dark matter known as weakly-interacting massive particles (WIMPs). LZ consists of a time projection chamber containing 7 tonnes of liquid xenon and is surrounded by a multi-layer veto to help reject backgrounds, and is located at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in South Dakota. Recently, using a 5.7 tonne-year...
Despite overwhelming astronomical evidence for the existence of dark matter (DM), its fundamental nature remains one of the central open questions in modern physics. Owing to their excellent detection efficiency, scalability, and ultra-low background levels, dual-phase time projection chambers (TPCs) employing multi-tonne liquid xenon (LXe) targets are at the forefront of the search for...
