A photo showing both PMT arrays during the cabling process in the surface lab at SURFA close-up photo showing the base attachment procedureA close-up of one stage of the PMT dressing procedureA photo of Jake Lyle installing a top array PMTA close-up photo of LZ's bottom PMT arrayThe bottom LZ PMT array with 241 photomultiplier tubes

Welcome

We are the Particle Astrophysics Group at Brown University. Our group consists of faculty, post docs, graduate students, and undergraduates conducting experimental work in direct dark matter detection.

Learn More About Our Research

Our group is currently involved in a research collaboration called LZ, a 10 tonne liquid xenon experiment almost 1 mile underground at the Sanford Underground Laboratory in South Dakota.

Dark Matter

Learn more about dark matter, and why we are searching for it.

Publications

See all our publications.

About Us

Learn more about the individual members of our group.

Gallery

See pictures of our work.

Congratulations to Casey Rhyne on his PhD and all the incredible work he carried out developing a new neutron source for LUX and LZ!

Graduate Theses

Links

LZ Homepage
LUX Homepage
DMTools
Brown Physics

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