September 26, 2016

LZ Dark Matter Detector Moves Forward

Underground experiment passes critical DOE review and prepares for startup in 2020.

Tomasz Biesiadzinski (left, SLAC) and Jeremy Mock (State University of New York/Berkeley Lab) install a miniversion of the future LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) dark matter detector at a test stand at SLAC. The white container is a prototype of the detector’s core, also known as a time projection chamber (TPC). For the dark matter hunt, LZ’s TPC will be filled with liquid xenon. (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

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