Strange Signal at the World’s Largest Dark Matter Detector Stirs Debate
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Physicists running the LZ dark matter detector in South Dakota report a 2023 event—a previously unobserved interaction in seven tons of liquid xenon that produced a flash of light. While the team says it could be a dark-matter signal, it yielded more energy than standard WIMP models predict, and the odds of it being a fluke are about 1 in 400—far below the five-sigma threshold—so independent confirmation from PandaX and XENONnT is planned before any firm claim.
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