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Did the LZ Experiment Find Dark Matter and Why Is the Answer Far More Complicated Than a Simple “Yes” or “No”?


LZ recorded a single 248 keV nuclear recoil that no known background explains. What the event is, why 2.6σ is not a discovery, and how it gets tested.

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