LZ Dark Matter
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Our new results are out! We have observed a single nuclear recoil in our detector that we find difficult to explain with our background model. Could it be a hint of dark matter? It’s far too early to say, but it’s certainly intriguing! #darkmatter
What are the backgrounds for our event of interest LZ230616, and why can't they currently explain it? 🤔 A thread: 🧵
[Images from the TeVPA talk, available on our website https://lz.lbl.gov] #darkmatter #LZ230616
[Images from the TeVPA talk, available on our website https://lz.lbl.gov] #darkmatter #LZ230616
September 2, 2026 at 11:58 AM
What are the backgrounds for our event of interest LZ230616, and why can't they currently explain it? 🤔 A thread: 🧵
[Images from the TeVPA talk, available on our website https://lz.lbl.gov] #darkmatter #LZ230616
[Images from the TeVPA talk, available on our website https://lz.lbl.gov] #darkmatter #LZ230616
Reposted by LZ Dark Matter
The LZ experiment has observed a particle interaction that could be interpreted as a signal from WIMPs, a #DarkMatter candidate — but researchers need more data to know for sure. @lzdarkmatter.bsky.social
LZ Sees Surprising Result in Search for Dark Matter
The LUX-ZEPLIN experiment observed a particle interaction that could be interpreted as a signal from WIMPs, a dark matter candidate — but researchers will need more data to confirm.
newscenter.lbl.gov
September 1, 2026 at 4:46 PM
The LZ experiment has observed a particle interaction that could be interpreted as a signal from WIMPs, a #DarkMatter candidate — but researchers need more data to know for sure. @lzdarkmatter.bsky.social
Our new results are out! We have observed a single nuclear recoil in our detector that we find difficult to explain with our background model. Could it be a hint of dark matter? It’s far too early to say, but it’s certainly intriguing! #darkmatter
September 1, 2026 at 2:40 PM
Our new results are out! We have observed a single nuclear recoil in our detector that we find difficult to explain with our background model. Could it be a hint of dark matter? It’s far too early to say, but it’s certainly intriguing! #darkmatter
🌌🔭✨❔ What is the dark matter mystery, and what does it take to catch a dark matter particle?
Take a look at this video, featuring LZ, from
@newscientist.com
👇 #darkmatter
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKzZ...
Take a look at this video, featuring LZ, from
@newscientist.com
👇 #darkmatter
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKzZ...
We May Be Wrong About Dark Matter
YouTube video by New Scientist
www.youtube.com
September 1, 2026 at 12:45 PM
🌌🔭✨❔ What is the dark matter mystery, and what does it take to catch a dark matter particle?
Take a look at this video, featuring LZ, from
@newscientist.com
👇 #darkmatter
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKzZ...
Take a look at this video, featuring LZ, from
@newscientist.com
👇 #darkmatter
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKzZ...
Happy holidays from deep underground! 🎄✨
LZ wishes everyone a joyful holiday season and a happy New Year. We’re incredibly grateful to the scientists, engineers, and crew whose hard work and commitment keep the experiment going every day.
LZ wishes everyone a joyful holiday season and a happy New Year. We’re incredibly grateful to the scientists, engineers, and crew whose hard work and commitment keep the experiment going every day.
December 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Happy holidays from deep underground! 🎄✨
LZ wishes everyone a joyful holiday season and a happy New Year. We’re incredibly grateful to the scientists, engineers, and crew whose hard work and commitment keep the experiment going every day.
LZ wishes everyone a joyful holiday season and a happy New Year. We’re incredibly grateful to the scientists, engineers, and crew whose hard work and commitment keep the experiment going every day.
😶🌫️ We’ve taken our first steps into the neutrino fog! LZ has just set world leading limits on low mass dark matter AND has observed neutrinos from the sun’s core. ☀️
December 16, 2025 at 3:47 AM
😶🌫️ We’ve taken our first steps into the neutrino fog! LZ has just set world leading limits on low mass dark matter AND has observed neutrinos from the sun’s core. ☀️
Reposted by LZ Dark Matter
Today, researchers with the @lzdarkmatter.bsky.social experiment set a world's best in the search for galactic #DarkMatter, and also marked the detector’s first glimpse of neutrinos from the sun's core. newscenter.lbl.gov/2025/12/08/l...
LZ Sets a World’s Best in the Hunt for Galactic Dark Matter and Gets a New Look at Neutrinos from the Sun’s Core
The LUX-ZEPLIN experiment analyzed the largest dataset ever collected by a dark matter detector, reaching unmatched sensitivity.
newscenter.lbl.gov
December 8, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Today, researchers with the @lzdarkmatter.bsky.social experiment set a world's best in the search for galactic #DarkMatter, and also marked the detector’s first glimpse of neutrinos from the sun's core. newscenter.lbl.gov/2025/12/08/l...
Exciting update – tune in from 10am MT on the 8th of December to hear new results from the LZ Dark Matter Experiment – broadcast from a mile underground at the Sanford Underground Research Facility!
🌟Join our results webinar live at this link: sanfordlab.org/lz-2025-result 🌟
🌟Join our results webinar live at this link: sanfordlab.org/lz-2025-result 🌟
December 5, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Exciting update – tune in from 10am MT on the 8th of December to hear new results from the LZ Dark Matter Experiment – broadcast from a mile underground at the Sanford Underground Research Facility!
🌟Join our results webinar live at this link: sanfordlab.org/lz-2025-result 🌟
🌟Join our results webinar live at this link: sanfordlab.org/lz-2025-result 🌟
Last month LZers from all over the world took part in dark matter day events where they got the public involved with the hunt for dark matter! 🌎
#darkmatter #darkmatterday
#darkmatter #darkmatterday
December 2, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Last month LZers from all over the world took part in dark matter day events where they got the public involved with the hunt for dark matter! 🌎
#darkmatter #darkmatterday
#darkmatter #darkmatterday
🌌 Dark Matter 101: The LZ Crash Course 🚀 | Lesson 4: The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) detector, part 2!
Last time, we introduced the LZ detector and its role in the hunt for dark matter. Now, let’s dig into how we actually read out signals when a particle interacts inside our detector ⚡️💡
Last time, we introduced the LZ detector and its role in the hunt for dark matter. Now, let’s dig into how we actually read out signals when a particle interacts inside our detector ⚡️💡
December 2, 2025 at 10:46 AM
🌌 Dark Matter 101: The LZ Crash Course 🚀 | Lesson 4: The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) detector, part 2!
Last time, we introduced the LZ detector and its role in the hunt for dark matter. Now, let’s dig into how we actually read out signals when a particle interacts inside our detector ⚡️💡
Last time, we introduced the LZ detector and its role in the hunt for dark matter. Now, let’s dig into how we actually read out signals when a particle interacts inside our detector ⚡️💡
What a weekend!!! We had an amazing time at New Scientist Live in London! Our stand was always so busy and we hope everyone who stopped by had fun and learnt something about the underground hunt for dark matter ✨ 🌌. #NewScientistLive #DarkMatter
November 4, 2025 at 10:23 AM
What a weekend!!! We had an amazing time at New Scientist Live in London! Our stand was always so busy and we hope everyone who stopped by had fun and learnt something about the underground hunt for dark matter ✨ 🌌. #NewScientistLive #DarkMatter
It’s almost here!!! We’re so excited to tell you all about #darkmatter at #NewScientistLive this weekend!
October 17, 2025 at 5:35 PM
It’s almost here!!! We’re so excited to tell you all about #darkmatter at #NewScientistLive this weekend!
🌌 Dark Matter 101: The LZ Crash Course 🚀 | Lesson 4: The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) detector, part 1!
Hello again! It’s time for the fourth installment of our crash course
Hello again! It’s time for the fourth installment of our crash course
September 30, 2025 at 3:05 PM
🌌 Dark Matter 101: The LZ Crash Course 🚀 | Lesson 4: The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) detector, part 1!
Hello again! It’s time for the fourth installment of our crash course
Hello again! It’s time for the fourth installment of our crash course
Dark Matter 101: The LZ Crash Course 📷 | Lesson 3: Detecting dark matter
Hello again! It’s time for the third installment of our crash course! #DarkMatter101 #LZCrashCourse #DarkMatter #DetectingDarkMatter #ParticlePhysics #Astrophysics #ScienceSeries #SpaceMysteries #DirectDetection
Hello again! It’s time for the third installment of our crash course! #DarkMatter101 #LZCrashCourse #DarkMatter #DetectingDarkMatter #ParticlePhysics #Astrophysics #ScienceSeries #SpaceMysteries #DirectDetection
July 25, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Dark Matter 101: The LZ Crash Course 📷 | Lesson 3: Detecting dark matter
Hello again! It’s time for the third installment of our crash course! #DarkMatter101 #LZCrashCourse #DarkMatter #DetectingDarkMatter #ParticlePhysics #Astrophysics #ScienceSeries #SpaceMysteries #DirectDetection
Hello again! It’s time for the third installment of our crash course! #DarkMatter101 #LZCrashCourse #DarkMatter #DetectingDarkMatter #ParticlePhysics #Astrophysics #ScienceSeries #SpaceMysteries #DirectDetection
Happy pride from LZ! We recognize and celebrate our LGBTQIA+ collaborators and are proud of the contributions they make to science 🏳️🌈
#pridemonth #happypride #lgbtqia
#pridemonth #happypride #lgbtqia
June 26, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Happy pride from LZ! We recognize and celebrate our LGBTQIA+ collaborators and are proud of the contributions they make to science 🏳️🌈
#pridemonth #happypride #lgbtqia
#pridemonth #happypride #lgbtqia
🌌 Dark Matter 101: The LZ Crash Course 🚀 | Lesson 2: What is dark matter?
Welcome back to our crash course! Each lesson we tackle a different aspect of the dark matter mystery.
Welcome back to our crash course! Each lesson we tackle a different aspect of the dark matter mystery.
May 26, 2025 at 9:45 AM
🌌 Dark Matter 101: The LZ Crash Course 🚀 | Lesson 2: What is dark matter?
Welcome back to our crash course! Each lesson we tackle a different aspect of the dark matter mystery.
Welcome back to our crash course! Each lesson we tackle a different aspect of the dark matter mystery.
🌌 Dark Matter 101: The LZ Crash Course 🚀 | Lesson 1: Evidence for dark matter.
Welcome to the first installment of our new series breaking down the mystery of dark matter, one post at a time. So, why do physicists think dark matter exists?
Welcome to the first installment of our new series breaking down the mystery of dark matter, one post at a time. So, why do physicists think dark matter exists?
April 28, 2025 at 6:53 PM
🌌 Dark Matter 101: The LZ Crash Course 🚀 | Lesson 1: Evidence for dark matter.
Welcome to the first installment of our new series breaking down the mystery of dark matter, one post at a time. So, why do physicists think dark matter exists?
Welcome to the first installment of our new series breaking down the mystery of dark matter, one post at a time. So, why do physicists think dark matter exists?
Don’t talk to me or my son ever again
(We love this new AR experience at the Sanford Lab Homestake Visitor Center!)
(We love this new AR experience at the Sanford Lab Homestake Visitor Center!)
February 20, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Don’t talk to me or my son ever again
(We love this new AR experience at the Sanford Lab Homestake Visitor Center!)
(We love this new AR experience at the Sanford Lab Homestake Visitor Center!)
Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science!
Today, we celebrate the incredible women pushing the frontiers of physics! From deep underground at SURF to laboratories around the world, women in LZ play a vital role in the search for dark matter ✨
#WomenInScience #GirlsInSTEM #DarkMatter
Today, we celebrate the incredible women pushing the frontiers of physics! From deep underground at SURF to laboratories around the world, women in LZ play a vital role in the search for dark matter ✨
#WomenInScience #GirlsInSTEM #DarkMatter
February 11, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science!
Today, we celebrate the incredible women pushing the frontiers of physics! From deep underground at SURF to laboratories around the world, women in LZ play a vital role in the search for dark matter ✨
#WomenInScience #GirlsInSTEM #DarkMatter
Today, we celebrate the incredible women pushing the frontiers of physics! From deep underground at SURF to laboratories around the world, women in LZ play a vital role in the search for dark matter ✨
#WomenInScience #GirlsInSTEM #DarkMatter
We're expanding our outreach efforts in the hope of communicating the dark matter mystery to more people, so we now have a LinkedIn! Give us a follow ✨ www.linkedin.com/company/lz-d... #darkmatter #particlephysics #physics #academictwitter
LZ Dark Matter | LinkedIn
LZ Dark Matter | World-leaders in the deep underground search for Dark Matter | We are a global scientific collaboration running the world's most sensitive dark matter detector a mile underground ...
www.linkedin.com
January 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
We're expanding our outreach efforts in the hope of communicating the dark matter mystery to more people, so we now have a LinkedIn! Give us a follow ✨ www.linkedin.com/company/lz-d... #darkmatter #particlephysics #physics #academictwitter
Hello Bluesky! Please enjoy some nice photos of our #darkmatter detector.
November 18, 2024 at 11:01 AM
Hello Bluesky! Please enjoy some nice photos of our #darkmatter detector.