Searching for Dark Matter and Rare Events with XENONnT

The XENONnT experiment is a dual-phase xenon time projection chamber (TPC) designed for the direct detection of dark matter. It has been operating at the INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (Italy) since 2020, with a total xenon mass of 8.5 tonnes. During the first two science runs, XENONnT collected data with a total exposure of about 3.5 tonne-years. Thanks to its extremely low background and low-energy threshold, the experiment is sensitive to potential dark matter candidates as well as other rare interactions. A significant achievement demonstrating the detector’s capabilities is the first measurement of nuclear recoils from solar $^8$B neutrinos via coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CE𝜈NS)