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First Dark Matter Search Results from LZ Experiment by Dr. Daria Santone

Abstract: The fundamental nature of our universe is still mostly unknown: 84% of the matter in the universe is dark and qualitatively different to everything we understand via the Standard Model. Several experiments devoted to detecting interactions of dark matter particles have not yet seen a convincing signal, but we may be on the cusp of discovery. The LUZ-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment is the largest Xe experiment in the world operating from mid-2021 at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota, USA. LZ consists in a 7 ton of active liquid Xe volume, surrounded by two detectors, which acts as veto signal to reject internal and external background. I will report the first science results of LZ and the future work.