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The LZ detector will use a giant tank of xenon and cutting edge detectors to search for a prominent dark matter candidate, weakly interacting massive particles.

Members of SLAC’s LZ team with loom used to weave high-voltage grids.
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In the largest dataset ever collected by a dark matter detector, LUX-ZEPLIN's latest results provide the strongest constraints on low-mass WIMPs and detect boron-8...

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Her work will advance a next-generation experiment in the hope of detecting this mysterious ingredient of the universe.

Portrait of Ann Wang
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About 30 years ago an ‘ideas guy’ and a team builder joined forces to search for the invisible bulk of existence. In this Q&A...

Dark Matter
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New results from the world’s most sensitive dark matter detector put the best-ever limits on particles called WIMPs, a leading candidate for what makes...

A tall white cylinder stands in a clean room space.
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Two determined fellows share their thoughts on representation, mentorship and staying true to themselves in STEM.

Annette Mendoza and Damion Tingle
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They’ll work on experiments searching for dark matter and physics beyond the Standard Model of particle physics to push our understanding of what makes...

Kelly Stifter and Julia Gonski.
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Members of SLAC’s LZ team with the loom they used to weave high-voltage grids for the next-gen dark matter experiment.
Members of SLAC’s LZ team with loom used to weave high-voltage grids.
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An enormous vat of pure liquid xenon will help scientists at SLAC and around the globe learn more about the universe.

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This animation shows how krypton (red) is removed from xenon gas (blue) by flowing the combined gases through a column...
A blue cloud with red spots travels downward, passing gray spots. As it does, the red spots move downward faster.
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They’ll work on experiments that search for dark matter particles and exotic neutrino decays that could help explain why there’s more matter than antimatter...

Side-by-side portraits of Brian Lenardo and Chelsea Bartram
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SLAC researchers contributed to the design, construction, testing and analysis of the experiment, which has already put the tightest bounds yet on a popular...

Bubble-like glass lenses inside a white cylindrical apparatus.
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Maria Elena Monzani prepares an international team to search for clues to one of the biggest scientific mysteries.

Maria Elena Monzani at the LZ test facility