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Searches for Light Dark Matter and Evidence of Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering of Solar Neutrinos with the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Experiment
- Akerib, DS;
- Al Musalhi, AK;
- Alder, F;
- Almquist, BJ;
- Amarasinghe, CS;
- Ames, A;
- Anderson, TJ;
- Angelides, N;
- Araújo, HM;
- Armstrong, JE;
- Arthurs, M;
- Baker, A;
- Balashov, S;
- Bang, J;
- Bargemann, JW;
- Barillier, EE;
- Barthel, J;
- Bauer, D;
- Beattie, K;
- Bhatti, A;
- Biesiadzinski, TP;
- Birch, HJ;
- Bishop, E;
- Blockinger, GM;
- Brew, CAJ;
- Brás, P;
- Burdin, S;
- Carmona-Benitez, MC;
- Carter, M;
- Chawla, A;
- Chen, H;
- Chin, YT;
- Chott, NI;
- Contreras, S;
- Converse, MV;
- Coronel, R;
- Cottle, A;
- Cox, G;
- Curran, D;
- Dahl, CE;
- Darlington, I;
- Dave, S;
- David, A;
- Davis, J;
- Delgaudio, J;
- Dey, S;
- de Viveiros, L;
- Di Felice, L;
- Ding, C;
- Dobson, JEY;
- Druszkiewicz, E;
- Dubey, S;
- Dunbar, CL;
- Eriksen, SR;
- Fayer, S;
- Fearon, NM;
- Fieldhouse, N;
- Fiorucci, S;
- Flaecher, H;
- Fraser, ED;
- Fruth, TMA;
- Gaemers, PW;
- Gaitskell, RJ;
- Geffre, A;
- Genovesi, J;
- Ghag, C;
- Ghamsari, J;
- Ghosh, A;
- Ghosh, S;
- Gibbons, R;
- Gokhale, S;
- Green, J;
- van der Grinten, MGD;
- Haiston, JJ;
- Hall, CR;
- Hall, T;
- Hampp, RN;
- Haselschwardt, SJ;
- Hernandez, MA;
- Hertel, SA;
- Homenides, GJ;
- Horn, M;
- Huang, DQ;
- Hunt, D;
- Jacquet, E;
- James, RS;
- Jenkins, K;
- Kaboth, AC;
- Kamaha, AC;
- Kannichankandy, MK;
- Khaitan, D;
- Khazov, A;
- Kim, J;
- Kim, YD;
- Kodroff, D;
- Korolkova, EV;
- Kraus, H;
- Kravitz, S;
- Kreczko, L;
- Kudryavtsev, VA;
- Lawes, C;
- Leonard, DS;
- Lesko, KT;
- Levy, C;
- Lin, J;
- Lindote, A;
- Lippincott, WH;
- Long, J;
- Lopes, MI;
- Lorenzon, W;
- Lu, C;
- Lucero, D;
- Luitz, S;
- Ma, W;
- Mahajan, V;
- Majewski, PA;
- Manalaysay, A;
- Mannino, RL;
- Matheson, RJ;
- Maupin, C;
- McCarthy, ME;
- McKinsey, DN;
- McLaughlin, J;
- McLaughlin, JB;
- McMonigle, R;
- Mitra, B;
- Mizrachi, E;
- Monzani, ME;
- Morå, K;
- Morrison, E;
- Mount, BJ;
- Murdy, M;
- Murphy, A St J;
- Nelson, HN;
- Neves, F;
- Nguyen, A;
- O’Brien, CL;
- O’Shea, FH;
- Olcina, I;
- Oliver-Mallory, KC;
- Orpwood, J;
- Oyulmaz, KY;
- Palladino, KJ;
- Pannifer, NJ;
- Parveen, N;
- Patton, SJ;
- Penning, B;
- Pereira, G;
- Perry, E;
- Pershing, T;
- Piepke, A;
- Poudel, SS;
- Qie, Y;
- Reichenbacher, J;
- Rhyne, CA;
- Rischbieter, GRC;
- Ritchey, E;
- Riyat, HS;
- Rosero, R;
- Rowe, NJ;
- Rushton, T;
- Rynders, D;
- Saltão, S;
- Santone, D;
- Sargeant, I;
- Sazzad, ABMR;
- Schnee, RW;
- Sehr, G;
- Shafer, B;
- Shaw, S;
- Sherman, W;
- Shi, K;
- Shutt, T;
- Silva, C;
- Sinev, G;
- Siniscalco, J;
- Slivar, AM;
- Smith, R;
- Solovov, VN;
- Sorensen, P;
- Soria, J;
- Sumner, TJ;
- Swain, A;
- Szydagis, M;
- Taylor, DJ;
- Tiedt, DR;
- Timalsina, M;
- Tovey, DR;
- Tranter, J;
- Trask, M;
- Trengove, K;
- Tripathi, M;
- Usón, A;
- Vaitkus, AC;
- Valentino, O;
- Velan, V;
- Wang, A;
- Wang, JJ;
- Wang, Y;
- Weeldreyer, L;
- Whitis, TJ;
- Wild, K;
- Williams, M;
- Winnicki, J;
- Wolf, L;
- Wolfs, FLH;
- Woodford, S;
- Woodward, D;
- Wright, CJ;
- Xia, Q;
- Xu, J;
- Xu, Y;
- Yeh, M;
- Yeum, D;
- Young, J;
- Zha, W;
- Zhang, H;
- Zhang, T;
- Zhou, Y
Published Web Location
https://doi.org/10.1103/jvqf-njpjAbstract
We present searches for light dark matter (DM) with masses in the presence of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering ( ) from solar neutrinos with the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment. This analysis uses a 5.7 tonne-yr exposure with data collected between March 2023 and April 2025. In an energy range spanning 1–6 keV, we report no significant excess of events attributable to dark matter nuclear recoils, but we observe a significant signal from interactions that is consistent with expectation. We set world-leading limits on spin-independent and spin-dependent-neutron DM-nucleon interactions for masses down to . In the no-dark-matter scenario, we observe a signal consistent with events, corresponding to a statistical significance. This is the most significant evidence of interactions and is enabled by robust background modeling and mitigation techniques. This demonstrates LZ’s ability to detect rare signals at keV-scale energies.
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