First Results of the LUX Dark Matter Experiment Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • 2015 Elsevier B.V.. LUX (Large Underground Xenon) is a dark matter direct detection experiment deployed at the 4850' level of the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in Lead, SD, operating a 370 kg dual-phase xenon TPC. Results of the first WIMP search run were presented in late 2013, for the analysis of 85.3 live-days with a fiducial volume of 118 kg, taken during the period of April to August 2013. The experiment exhibited a sensitivity to spin-independent WIMP-nucleon elastic scattering with a minimum upper limit on the cross section of 7.610-46cm2 at a WIMP mass of 33 GeV/c2, becoming the world's leading WIMP search result, in conflict with several previous claimed hints of discovery.

published proceedings

  • NUCLEAR AND PARTICLE PHYSICS PROCEEDINGS

altmetric score

  • 0.25

author list (cited authors)

  • Carmona-Benitez, M. C., Akerib, D. S., Araujo, H. M., Bai, X., Bailey, A. J., Balajthy, J., ... Zhang, C.

citation count

  • 3

complete list of authors

  • Carmona-Benitez, MC||Akerib, DS||Araujo, HM||Bai, X||Bailey, AJ||Balajthy, J||Beltrame, P||Bernard, E||Bernstein, A||Bradley, A||Byram, D||Cahn, SB||Chan, C||Chapman, JJ||Chiller, AA||Chiller, C||Currie, A||de Viveiros, L||Dobi, A||Dobson, J||Druszkiewicz, E||Edwards, B||Faham, CH||Fiorucci, S||Flores, C||Gaitskell, RJ||Gehman, VM||Ghag, C||Gibson, KR||Gilchriese, MGD||Hall, C||Hanhardt, M||Haselschwardt, S||Hertel, SA||Horn, M||Huang, DQ||Ihm, M||Jacobsen, RG||Kazkaz, K||Knoche, R||Larsen, NA||Lee, C||Lenardo, B||Lesko, KT||Lindote, A||Lopes, MI||Malling, DC||Manalaysay, A||Mannino, R||McKinsey, DN||Mei, D-M||Mock, J||Moongweluwan, M||Morad, J||Murphy, A St J||Nehrkorn, C||Nelson, H||Neves, F||Ott, RA||Pangilinan, M||Parker, PD||Pease, EK||Pech, K||Phelps, P||Reichhart, L||Shutt, T||Silva, C||Solovov, VN||Sorensen, P||O'Sullivan, K||Sumner, TJ||Szydagis, M||Taylor, D||Tennyson, B||Tiedt, DR||Tripathi, M||Tvrznikova, L||Uvarov, S||Verbus, JR||Walsh, N||Webb, R||White, JT||Witherell, MS||Wolfs, FLH||Woods, M||Zhang, C

publication date

  • January 2016