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The official LZ dark matter experiment twitter feed. Hunter of WIMPs, underground dweller.
Aug 28 15 tweets 7 min read
Wondering how LZ works and what these new results mean? This is the thread for you!
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LZ has 3 detectors! The inner TPC, the dark matter (DM) target, is 7T of liquid xenon (LXe). The Skin, 2T of LXe, sits outside the TPC. The Outer Detector (OD) is 17T of Gd-loaded liquid scintillator. The Skin & OD veto backgrounds that could otherwise be mistaken for DM! 2/15 Image