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The LZ collaboration combined 2022 and 2023–24 exposure in a conventional low-energy WIMP search, reporting no excess over expected backgrounds and setting model-dependent interaction limits. A later analysis of the overlapping 2023–24 data extended the recoil window and found one event compatible with a high-energy nuclear recoil; its model scan reported 2.6 sigma global and at most 3.4 sigma local tension with background.
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The 2025 conventional and 2026 extended-energy searches use overlapping data and different selections, fiducial volumes, signal hypotheses and analysis methods; they are not independent discoveries. The 2026 analysis is explicitly non-blind because its artificial-event procedure did not cover the relevant high-energy region. One candidate is not evidence establishing a dark-matter particle; response calibration, non-Gaussian background tails and tested model space remain material. The 2025 limits are conditional on the stated halo, interaction and statistical models and include a power constraint. The 2026 paper is an arXiv preprint, not independently replicated or established as published. A correction was published for the 2025 analysis; its effect on comparisons with the later analysis remains to be assessed.
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- Dark Matter Search Results from 4.2 Tonne-Years of Exposure of the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Experiment
- Search for dark matter particle interactions in an extended nuclear recoil energy window with the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment
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LZ dark-matter searches: conventional limits and an extended-energy recoil candidate
The LZ collaboration combined 2022 and 2023–24 exposure in a conventional low-energy WIMP search, reporting no excess over expected backgrounds and setting model-dependent interaction limits. A later analysis of the overlapping 2023–24 data extended the recoil window and found one event compatible with a high-energy nuclear recoil; its model scan reported 2.6 sigma global and at most 3.4 sigma local tension with background.
Scientific scope
The 2025 conventional and 2026 extended-energy searches use overlapping data and different selections, fiducial volumes, signal hypotheses and analysis methods; they are not independent discoveries. The 2026 analysis is explicitly non-blind because its artificial-event procedure did not cover the relevant high-energy region. One candidate is not evidence establishing a dark-matter particle; response calibration, non-Gaussian background tails and tested model space remain material. The 2025 limits are conditional on the stated halo, interaction and statistical models and include a power constraint. The 2026 paper is an arXiv preprint, not independently replicated or established as published. A correction was published for the 2025 analysis; its effect on comparisons with the later analysis remains to be assessed.
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Credit belongs to the cited collaborations. The individual author list is incomplete; no sole discoverer or individual effort share is inferred.