{"paper":{"title":"Searches for Light Dark Matter and Evidence of Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering of Solar Neutrinos with the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Experiment","license":"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":[],"primary_cat":"hep-ex","authors_text":"A. Ames, A. Baker, A. Bhatti, A.B.M.R. Sazzad, A. Chawla, A.C. Kaboth, A.C. Kamaha, A. Cottle, A.C. Vaitkus, A. David, A. Geffre, A. Ghosh, A.K. Al Musalhi, A. Khazov, A. Lindote, A. Manalaysay, A.M. Slivar, A. Nguyen, A. Piepke, A.St.J. Murphy, A. Swain, A. Us\\'on, A. Wang, B.J. Almquist, B.J. Mount, B. Mitra, B. Penning, B. Shafer, C.A.J. Brew, C.A. Rhyne, C. Ding, C.E. Dahl, C. Ghag, C.J. Wright, C. Lawes, C.L. Dunbar, C. Levy, C.L. O'Brien, C. Lu, C. Maupin, C.R. Hall, C.S. Amarasinghe, C. Silva, D. Bauer, D. Curran, D. Hunt, D.J. Taylor, D. Khaitan, D. Kodroff, D. Lucero, D.N. McKinsey, D.Q. Huang, D.R. Tiedt, D.R. Tovey, D. Rynders, D.S. Akerib, D. Santone, D.S. Leonard, D. Woodward, D. Yeum, E. Bishop, E.D. Fraser, E. Druszkiewicz, E.E. Barillier, E. Jacquet, E. Mizrachi, E. Morrison, E. Perry, E. Ritchey, E.V. Korolkova, F. Alder, F.H. O'Shea, F.L.H. Wolfs, F. Neves, G. Cox, G.J. Homenides, G.M. Blockinger, G. Pereira, G.R.C. Rischbieter, G. Sehr, G. Sinev, H. Chen, H. Flaecher, H.J. Birch, H. Kraus, H.M. Ara\\'ujo, H.N. Nelson, H.S. Riyat, H. Zhang, I. Darlington, I. Olcina, I. Sargeant, J. Bang, J. Barthel, J.B. McLaughlin, J. Davis, J. Delgaudio, J.E. Armstrong, J.E.Y. Dobson, J. Genovesi, J. Ghamsari, J. Green, J.J. Haiston, J.J. Wang, J. Kim, J. Lin, J. Long, J. Mclaughlin, J. Orpwood, J. Reichenbacher, J. Siniscalco, J. Soria, J. Tranter, J.W. Bargemann, J. Winnicki, J. Xu, J. Young, K. Beattie, K.C. Oliver-Mallory, K. Jenkins, K.J. Palladino, K. Mor{\\aa}, K. Shi, K.T. Lesko, K. Trengove, K. Wild, K.Y Oyulmaz, L. de Viveiros, L. Di Felice, L. Kreczko, L. Weeldreyer, L. Wolf, M.A. Hernandez, M. Arthurs, M. Carter, M.C. Carmona-Benitez, M.E. McCarthy, M.E. Monzani, M.G.D.van der Grinten, M. Horn, M.I. Lopes, M.K. Kannichankandy, M. Murdy, M. Szydagis, M. Timalsina, M. Trask, M. Tripathi, M.V. Converse, M. Williams, M. Yeh, N. Angelides, N. Fieldhouse, N.I. Chott, N.J. Pannifer, N.J. Rowe, N.M. Fearon, N. Parveen, O. Valentino, P.A. Majewski, P. Br\\'as, P. Sorensen, P.W. Gaemers, Q. Xia, R. Coronel, R. Gibbons, R.J. Gaitskell, R.J. Matheson, R.L. Mannino, R. McMonigle, R.N Hampp, R. Rosero, R.S. James, R. Smith, R.W. Schnee, S.A. Hertel, S. Balashov, S. Burdin, S. Contreras, S. Dave, S. Dey, S. Dubey, S. Fayer, S. Fiorucci, S. Ghosh, S. Gokhale, S.J. Haselschwardt, S.J. Patton, S. Kravitz, S. Luitz, S.R. Eriksen, S. Salt\\~ao, S. Shaw, S.S. Poudel, S. Woodford, T. Hall, T.J. Anderson, T.J. Sumner, T.J. Whitis, T.M.A. Fruth, T.P. Biesiadzinski, T. Pershing, T. Rushton, T. Shutt, T. Zhang, V.A. Kudryavtsev, V. Mahajan, V.N. Solovov, V. Velan, W.H. Lippincott, W. Lorenzon, W. Ma, W. Sherman, W. Zha, Y.D. Kim, Y. Qie, Y.T. Chin, Y. Wang, Y. Xu, Y. Zhou","submitted_at":"2025-12-08T21:58:06Z","abstract_excerpt":"We present searches for light dark matter (DM) with masses 3-9 GeV/$c^2$ in the presence of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CE$\\nu$NS) from $^{8}$B solar neutrinos with the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment. This analysis uses a 5.7 tonne-year exposure with data collected between March 2023 and April 2025. In an energy range spanning 1-6 keV, we report no significant excess of events attributable to dark matter nuclear recoils, but we observe a significant signal from $^{8}$B CE$\\nu$NS interactions that is consistent with expectation. We set world-leading limits on spin-independent and spin-"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"2512.08065","kind":"arxiv","version":3},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"integrity":{"clean":true,"summary":{"advisory":0,"critical":0,"by_detector":{},"informational":0},"endpoint":"/pith/2512.08065/integrity.json","findings":[],"available":true,"detectors_run":[],"snapshot_sha256":"c28c3603d3b5d939e8dc4c7e95fa8dfce3d595e45f758748cecf8e644a296938"},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}