Bjoern Penning
bpenning.bsky.social
Bjoern Penning
@bpenning.bsky.social
Physics Professor at the University of Zurich, Searching for Dark Matter with LZ and TESSERACT.
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Today, researchers with the @lzdarkmatter.bsky.social experiment set a world's best in the search for galactic #DarkMatter, and also marked the detector’s first glimpse of neutrinos from the sun's core. newscenter.lbl.gov/2025/12/08/l...
LZ Sets a World’s Best in the Hunt for Galactic Dark Matter and Gets a New Look at Neutrinos from the Sun’s Core
The LUX-ZEPLIN experiment analyzed the largest dataset ever collected by a dark matter detector, reaching unmatched sensitivity.
newscenter.lbl.gov
December 8, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Behind the Scenes of the Large Hadron Collider Upgrade
chipp.ch/en/id/8vTWE?...
October 30, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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October 17, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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The giant under the mountain

chipp.ch/en/id/CNuJU?...
September 16, 2025 at 1:18 PM
July 2, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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Last week my colleagues and I visited the Bedretto underground lab, operated by the @ethz.ch (bedrettolab.ethz.ch/en/home/). For now, umbrellas
to protect our small neutron detectors were needed, but in the future we might outfit the deep tunnel (~1500 m overburden) for rare event searches ;)
June 14, 2025 at 11:08 AM