researcher tunes instruments in LZ detector
Liquid Noble Dark Matter Group

The SLAC Liquid Noble Dark Matter group is at the forefront of the dark matter exploration, driving R&D for the XLZD experiment, as well as operation and analysis of data from the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment. 

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About the Liquid Noble Dark Matter Group

Find out more about the Liquid Noble Dark Matter Group at SLAC - what we do and who we are.

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LUX-ZEPLIN Research

SLAC's Liquid Noble Dark Matter group plays a major role in operating and analyzing data from the most sensitive WIMP experiment ever built.

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XLZD & Future Detector Research

SLAC also plays an important role in R&D for proposed future experiments, including the XLZD experiment.

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Dark Matter Hunt with LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ)

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SLAC is helping to build and test the LUX-ZEPLIN or LZ detector, one of the biggest and most sensitive detectors ever designed to catch hypothetical dark matter particles known as WIMPs. Researchers at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory are on a quest to solve one of physics’ biggest mysteries: What exactly is dark matter – the invisible substance that accounts for 85 percent of all the matter in the universe but can’t be seen even with our most advanced scientific instruments? (Animation: Greg Stewart/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)