{"id":143102,"date":"2022-07-29T12:02:27","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T17:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/success-first-results-from-worlds-most-sensitive-dark-matter-detector"},"modified":"2022-07-29T12:02:27","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T17:02:27","slug":"success-first-results-from-worlds-most-sensitive-dark-matter-detector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/success-first-results-from-worlds-most-sensitive-dark-matter-detector","title":{"rendered":"Success! First Results From World\u2019s Most Sensitive Dark Matter Detector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/success-first-results-from-worlds-most-sensitive-dark-matter-detector.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Berkeley Lab Researchers Record Successful Startup of LUX-ZEPLIN Dark Matter Detector at Sanford Underground Research Facility<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An innovative and uniquely sensitive dark matter detector \u2013 the <a href=https:\/\/lz.lbl.gov\/ target=_blank rel=noopener>LUX-ZEPLIN<\/a> (LZ) experiment \u2013 has passed a check-out phase of startup operations and delivered first results. LZ is located deep below the Black Hills of South Dakota in the <a href=https:\/\/www.sanfordlab.org\/ target=_blank rel=noopener>Sanford Underground Research Facility<\/a> (SURF) and is led by the DOE\u2019s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).<\/p>\n<p>The take-home message from this successful startup: \u201cWe\u2019re ready and everything\u2019s looking good,\u201d said Berkeley Lab senior physicist and past LZ spokesperson Kevin Lesko. \u201cIt\u2019s a complex detector with many parts to it and they are all functioning well within expectations,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Berkeley Lab Researchers Record Successful Startup of LUX-ZEPLIN Dark Matter Detector at Sanford Underground Research Facility An innovative and uniquely sensitive dark matter detector \u2013 the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment \u2013 has passed a check-out phase of startup operations and delivered first results. LZ is located deep below the Black Hills of South Dakota in the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}