The Penn State group was at the April APS Meeting 2023 in Minneapolis, MN, representing both the LZ dark matter and Project 8 neutrino mass experiments!
LZ had a huge showing, with 9 talks, plus a number of collaborators presenting talks on adjacent topics. Our grad student Dan Kodroff was at the meeting giving the talk detailing the backgrounds present in the LZ detector, with an emphasis on the background model used in LZ’s first results and how these backgrounds were constrained in situ.
We also saw our former undergraduate student, Jacob McLaughlin, now a grad student at Northwestern and still working on LZ, presenting with a great talk on the use of Rn chain pair tagging to help mitigate Pb backgrounds!
Luiz de Viveiros presented a talk giving an overview of the Project 8 experimental program, and highlighting the latest results including our first tritium endpoint measurement and neutrino mass limit.
