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Description
The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment is a world-leading dark matter direct detector, which, in its full data-taking period of 1000 live days, will be sensitive to a spin-independent WIMP-nucleon cross section of 1.4 x 10^-48 cm^2 (for a 40 GeV WIMP), and will have the ability to detect other rare processes. The experiment has an active mass of 7 tonnes of xenon, is located at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota, USA, and consists of 3 nested detectors: a dual-phase time projection chamber, surrounded by an instrumented xenon skin, which is in turn surrounded by an outer gadolinium-loaded liquid scintillator detector for rejection of neutrons and other backgrounds. Construction of the experiment was completed in 2021, and an initial calibration of the detector was completed by early 2022. In this talk, I will present an update on the status of the experiment.
