The first meeting as an official collaboration was hosted by the Italian underground laboratory LNGS, between the 30th of June and 3rd of July. Topics spanned early design concepts, updates on ongoing R&D, discussions on funding and siting, science requirements and much more. A visit through the underground lab, underneath the Gran Sasso mountain, offered a close look at the XenonNT detector, and the possible location XLZD could one day occupy.
Read moreThe third joint meeting for the XLZD consortium (now XLZD Collaboration) took place 15-19th of April 2024 at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, at Harwell in the UK. The detector design book and funding strategies were discussed in a wide forum. Excitement over the imminent formation of the future collaboration which will deliver this deffinitive instrument was also widespread. Find the agenda here.
Read moreThe second joint meeting after signature of the Memorandum of Understanding has taken place in April 2023 at UCLA. Find the agenda here
Read moreThe first joint meeting after signature of the MoU has taken place 27-29 June 2022 at KIT (Campus North). Seven topical working groups have been established which will report their initial findings at the meeting as a basis for further discussion: Science, Key messages and figures, Xenon procurement and budget, Timeline, major design questions and scaling, Siting, Branding and communications, and Grassroots group.
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