Carter Hall, Prof. of Physics
Department of Physics @ the University of Maryland, College Park
Physical Sciences
Complex Room 2114
4696 Stadium Drive, College Park MD,
20742
crhall-at-umd-dot-edu
The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment
The LZ experiment is a WIMP dark
matter search utilizing ten tonnes of liquefied xenon. We are
located at SURF in Lead,
SD. The experiment is currently being commissioned; first
dark matter results are expected in 2022. Data taking is
expected to continue for three to five years. The experiment
builds upon the success of the LUX
experiment, which operated at the same site between 2013
and 2016. Our group has played a leading role in both LUX and
LZ. Besides the flagship dark matter search, LZ is also
sensitive to a variety of other types of weak interaction
phenomena, including neutrinoless double beta decay, solar
neutrinos, solar axions, and rare nuclear decays.
There will be opportunities for new graduate students and
undergraduate students to join our group in the next several
years; contact me for more information.
Ph.D
dissertations written by students in our group:
- Dr. Jon Balajthy, 'Purity Monitoring Techniques and Electronic Energy Deposition Properties in Liquid Xenon Time Projection Chambers', 2018.
- Dr.
Richard Knoche, 'Signal Corrections and Calibrations in the
LUX Dark Matter Detector', 2016.
- Dr. Attila Dobi, 'Measurement of the Electron Recoil Band of the LUX Dark Matter Detector With a Tritium Calibration Source', 2014.
- Dr. Clayton Davis, 'A Search for the Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay of Xenon-136 with Improved Sensitivity from Denoising', 2014.
- Dr. Yung-Ruey Yen, 'A Search for the Double-Beta Decay of Xe-136 to an Excited State of Ba-136 with EXO-200', 2013.
- Dr. Simon Slutsky, 'A Search for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay with EXO-200', 2013.
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