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Limits RegistryThe LZ (LUX-ZEPLIN) experiment, a liquid xenon time-projection chamber located nearly a mile underground at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in South Dakota, set the world's most sensitive limit on WIMP dark matter as of 2024, excluding spin-independent WIMP-nucleon cross sections down to about 2.2 x 10^-48 cm² at 36 GeV/c² WIMP mass — without yet detecting a confirmed dark matter signal.
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The LZ (LUX-ZEPLIN) experiment, a liquid xenon time-projection chamber located nearly a mile underground at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in South Dakota, set the world's most sensitive limit on WIMP dark matter as of 2024, excluding spin-independent WIMP-nucleon cross sections down to about 2.2 x 10^-48 cm² at 36 GeV/c² WIMP mass — without yet detecting a confirmed dark matter signal.
The most stringent (lowest) upper limit set on the WIMP-nucleon interaction cross-section by a direct dark-matter detection experiment, at the benchmark WIMP mass where sensitivity is typically reported (around 30-40 GeV/c²).
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Limits Registry. LR-MOST-SENSITIVE-DARK-MATTER-DIRECT-DETECTION-LIMIT. Most sensitive dark matter direct-detection exclusion limit. 2026.