| Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1823277 | Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment | 2013 | 16 Pages |
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 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<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.
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Authors
D.S. Akerib, X. Bai, S. Bedikian, E. Bernard, A. Bernstein, A. Bolozdynya, A. Bradley, D. Byram, S.B. Cahn, C. Camp, M.C. Carmona-Benitez, D. Carr, J.J. Chapman, A. Chiller, C. Chiller, K. Clark, T. Classen, T. Coffey, A. Curioni, E. Dahl, S. Dazeley,