The Large Underground Xenon (LUX) experiment

By D. Akerib, X. Bai, S. Bedikian, E. Bernard, A. Bernstein, A. Bolozdynya, A. Bradley, D. Byram, S. Cahn, C. Camp and 84 more. 2012

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The Large Underground Xenon (LUX) collaboration has designed and constructed a dual-phase xenon detector, in order to conduct a search for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs), a leading dark matter candidate. The goal of the LUX detector is to clearly detect (or exclude) WIMPS with a spin independent cross-section per nucleon of 2×10-46cm2, equivalent to ∼1event/100kg/month in the inner 100-kg fiducial volume (FV) of the 370-kg detector. The overall background goals are set to have <1 background events characterized as possible WIMPs in the FV in 300 days of running. This paper describes the design and construction of the LUX detector. © 2012 Elsevier B.V.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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In Astronomy and Astrophysics

1. H. Ara'ujo
2. V. Chepel
3. Sabine Schindler
4. M. Schumann
5. Manfred Lindner
6. Roberto Trotta
7. L. Krauss
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In Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

1. H. Ara'ujo
2. V. Chepel
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2. V. Chepel
3. V. Hannen
4. G. Drexlin
5. M. Schumann
6. Manfred Lindner
7. Roberto Trotta
8. L. Krauss

Citations in the corpus

• Liquid noble gas detectors for low energy particle physics (2012, methodology): “For the next phase the LUX and ZEPLIN-III teams are planning the LZ program at Homestake, where a detector with active mass of several tonnes can be deployed within the infrastructure developed for LUX350 [379].”
• DARWIN: towards the ultimate dark matter detector (2016, background): “However, there is little information stored in the comparatively long time between the S1 and S2 peaks and already present-day detectors do not digitize this part of the waveforms to reduce the amount of data [24, 26].”
• Characterising dark matter searches at colliders and direct detection experiments: vector mediators (2014, unknown): “37 [84], P(n; ν(ER)) is a Poisson distribution with mean ν(ER) ≡ 8.”