Fundamental Physics
LUX-ZEPLIN direct-detection null result
strength 72/100
Peer-reviewed
The most sensitive WIMP dark-matter search to date reports no signal, excluding large regions of candidate parameter space and constraining the simplest particle models.
Bears on 1 hypothesis
- opposesw45PLAUSIBLEDark matter is a new fundamental particle
Repeated direct-detection nulls disfavor the simplest particle models.