The Large Underground Xenon (LUX) experiment Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • 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 210 -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.

published proceedings

  • NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION A-ACCELERATORS SPECTROMETERS DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT

altmetric score

  • 18.33

author list (cited authors)

  • Akerib, D. S., Bai, X., Bedikian, S., Bernard, E., Bernstein, A., Bolozdynya, A., ... Zhang, C.

citation count

  • 240

complete list of authors

  • Akerib, DS||Bai, X||Bedikian, S||Bernard, E||Bernstein, A||Bolozdynya, A||Bradley, A||Byram, D||Cahn, SB||Camp, C||Carmona-Benitez, MC||Carr, D||Chapman, JJ||Chiller, A||Chiller, C||Clark, K||Classen, T||Coffey, T||Curioni, A||Dahl, E||Dazeley, S||de Viveiros, L||Dobi, A||Dragowsky, E||Druszkiewicz, E||Edwards, B||Faham, CH||Fiorucci, S||Gaitskell, RJ||Gibson, KR||Gilchriese, M||Hall, C||Hanhardt, M||Holbrook, B||Ihm, M||Jacobsen, RG||Kastens, L||Kazkaz, K||Knoche, R||Kyre, S||Kwong, J||Lander, R||Larsen, NA||Lee, C||Leonard, DS||Lesko, KT||Lindote, A||Lopes, MI||Lyashenko, A||Malling, DC||Mannino, R||Marquez, Z||McKinsey, DN||Mei, D-M||Mock, J||Moongweluwan, M||Morii, M||Nelson, H||Neves, F||Nikkel, JA||Pangilinan, M||Parker, PD||Pease, EK||Pech, K||Phelps, P||Rodionov, A||Roberts, P||Shei, A||Shutt, T||Silva, C||Skulski, W||Solovov, VN||Sofka, CJ||Sorensen, P||Spaans, J||Stiegler, T||Stolp, D||Svoboda, R||Sweany, M||Szydagis, M||Taylor, D||Thomson, J||Tripathi, M||Uvarov, S||Verbus, JR||Walsh, N||Webb, R||White, D||White, JT||Whitis, TJ||Wlasenko, M||Wolfs, FLH||Woods, M||Zhang, C

publication date

  • January 2013