LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Conceptual Design Report
Abstract
The design and performance of the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) detector is described as of March 2015 in this Conceptual Design Report. LZ is a second-generation dark-matter detector with the potential for unprecedented sensitivity to weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) of masses from a few GeV/c2 to hundreds of TeV/c2. With total liquid xenon mass of about 10 tonnes, LZ will be the most sensitive experiment for WIMPs in this mass region by the end of the decade. This report describes in detail the design of the LZ technical systems. Expected backgrounds are quantified and the performance of the experiment is presented. The LZ detector will be located at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in South Dakota. The organization of the LZ Project and a summary of the expected cost and current schedule are given.
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@article{arxiv.1509.02910,
title = {LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Conceptual Design Report},
author = {The LZ Collaboration and D. S. Akerib and C. W. Akerlof and D. Yu. Akimov and S. K. Alsum and H. M. Araújo and X. Bai and A. J. Bailey and J. Balajthy and S. Balashov and M. J. Barry and P. Bauer and P. Beltrame and E. P. Bernard and A. Bernstein and T. P. Biesiadzinski and K. E. Boast and A. I. Bolozdynya and E. M. Boulton and R. Bramante and J. H. Buckley and V. V. Bugaev and R. Bunker and S. Burdin and J. K. Busenitz and C. Carels and D. L. Carlsmith and B. Carlson and M. C. Carmona-Benitez and M. Cascella and C. Chan and J. J. Cherwinka and A. A. Chiller and C. Chiller and W. W. Craddock and A. Currie and J. E. Cutter and J. P. da Cunha and C. E. Dahl and S. Dasu and T. J. R. Davison and L. de Viveiros and A. Dobi and J. E. Y. Dobson and E. Druszkiewicz and T. K. Edberg and B. N. Edwards and W. R. Edwards and M. M. Elnimr and W. T. Emmet and C. H. Faham and S. Fiorucci and P. Ford and V. B. Francis and C. Fu and R. J. Gaitskell and N. J. Gantos and V. M. Gehman and R. M. Gerhard and C. Ghag and M. G. D. Gilchriese and B. Gomber and C. R. Hall and A. Harris and S. J. Haselschwardt and S. A. Hertel and M. D. Hoff and B. Holbrook and E. Holtom and D. Q. Huang and T. W. Hurteau and C. M. Ignarra and R. G. Jacobsen and W. Ji and X. Ji and M. Johnson and Y. Ju and K. Kamdin and K. Kazkaz and D. Khaitan and A. Khazov and A. V. Khromov and A. M. Konovalov and E. V. Korolkova and H. Kraus and H. J. Krebs and V. A. Kudryavtsev and A. V. Kumpan and S. Kyre and N. A. Larsen and C. Lee and B. G. Lenardo and K. T. Lesko and F. -T. Liao and J. Lin and A. Lindote and W. H. Lippincott and J. Liu and X. Liu and M. I. Lopes and W. Lorenzon and S. Luitz and P. Majewski and D. C. Malling and A. G. Manalaysay and L. Manenti and R. L. Mannino and D. J. Markley and T. J. Martin and M. F. Marzioni and D. N. McKinsey and D. -M. Mei and Y. Meng and E. H. Miller and J. Mock and M. E. Monzani and J. A. Morad and A. St. J. Murphy and H. N. Nelson and F. Neves and J. A. Nikkel and F. G. O'Neill and J. O'Dell and K. O'Sullivan and M. A. Olevitch and K. C. Oliver-Mallory and K. J. Palladino and M. Pangilinan and S. J. Patton and E. K. Pease and A. Piepke and S. Powell and R. M. Preece and K. Pushkin and B. N. Ratcliff and J. Reichenbacher and L. Reichhart and C. Rhyne and J. P. Rodrigues and H. J. Rose and R. Rosero and J. S. Saba and M. Sarychev and R. W. Schnee and M. S. G. Schubnell and P. R. Scovell and S. Shaw and T. A. Shutt and C. Silva and K. Skarpaas and W. Skulski and V. N. Solovov and P. Sorensen and V. V. Sosnovtsev and I. Stancu and M. R. Stark and S. Stephenson and T. M. Stiegler and T. J. Sumner and K. Sundarnath and M. Szydagis and D. J. Taylor and W. Taylor and B. P. Tennyson and P. A. Terman and K. J. Thomas and J. A. Thomson and D. R. Tiedt and W. H. To and A. Tomás and M. Tripathi and C. E. Tull and L. Tvrznikova and S. Uvarov and J. Va'vra and M. G. D. van der Grinten and J. R. Verbus and C. O. Vuosalo and W. L. Waldron and L. Wang and R. C. Webb and W. -Z. Wei and M. While and D. T. White and T. J. Whitis and W. J. Wisniewski and M. S. Witherell and F. L. H. Wolfs and E. Woods and D. Woodward and S. D. Worm and M. Yeh and J. Yin and S. K. Young and C. Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.02910},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
278 pages. Submitted to the Department of Energy as part of the documentation for the Critical Decision Number One (CD-1) management process. Report also available by chapter at http://hep.ucsb.edu/LZ/CDR. This version includes corrections of minor typographic errors