The Large Underground Xenon (LUX) Experiment

2012/11/21 by D. S. Akerib, X. Bai, S. Bedikian +91 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #physics.ins-det #hep-ex

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.nima.2012.11.135

published as Nuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics Research A704 (2013) 111 - 126 · 50 pages, 16 figures

arxiv created 2012/11/21 · arxiv updated 2013/01/15

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^-46 cm², equivalent to ∼1 event/100 kg/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.

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