LZ experiment featured in “UW Fueling Discovery”

Dr. Kimberly Palladino says, “We don’t know if we will find dark matter with LZ but in the worst case, by 2025, we may know more about what it isn’t.”

In the photo, UW-Madison postdoctoral researcher Rachel Mannino and graduate student Shaun Alsum do a test fit of a high-voltage ring in a clean room at the LZ test facility at SLAC National Accelerator Lab. The UW’s Physical Sciences Laboratory designed and fabricated these high-voltage test parts.

The article about LZ is on page 24 of the Wisconsin State Journal special, UW Fueling Discovery.

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