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Description
Though widely accepted as the best explanation for many astrophysical and cosmological observations, Dark Matter particles have yet to be directly observed in a terrestrial detector. The XENON collaboration has long pioneered developments both in the general field of liquid xenon time projection chambers and in world leading searches for Dark Matter. Our collaboration has published world leading results from the XENON1T detector for upper limits on DM-nucleon cross-section with DM masses above 0.1 GeV, as well as other rare processes searches such as signals from solar axion and the coherent elastic scattering of solar Boron-8 neutrinos. Our next-generation detector, XENONnT is already constructed and running at the INFN Gran Sasso National Laboratory in Italy. XENONnT features a 6-tonne liquid xenon target and approximately 6 times lower background than its predecessor XENON1T. In this talk, I will review the results achieved with XENON1T, and discuss the status and discovery potential of XENONnT.
