LZ’s record-setting limits on dark matter interaction published in PRL

LZ's record-setting limits on dark matter interaction published in PRL

Looking up into the LZ Outer Detector, used to veto external radioactivity that can mimic a dark matter signal.
Credit: Matthew Kapust, Sanford Underground Research Facility

July 1, 2025

Berkeley Lab Physics Division News

The LZ experiment’s record-setting limits on dark matter interactions, first announced last year, have now been published in Physical Review Letters (PRL).

Read the PRL press release

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