Status of the LZ Experiment

The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) collaboration has grown out of these two precursor experiments, with the goal of constructing a next generation dark matter detector at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in Lead, South Dakota, using a dual-phase time projection chamber with 7 tonnes of fully active liquid xenon.This experiment aims to achieve unprecedented sensitivity to weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) and is projected to reach a WIMP-nucleon spin-independent cross section of about $1.4\times10^{-48}$ cm$^{2}$ for a 40 GeV/c$^{2}$ WIMP mass in a 1000 live-days, pushing its sensitivity close to irreducible neutrino backgrounds. The LZ experiment is well underway, and slated to start operations this year. This talk will present an overview of the LZ detector design and the current status of the experiment.