Simulations of Events for the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Dark Matter Experiment
Instrumentation and Detectors
2020-06-25 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract
The LUX-ZEPLIN dark matter search aims to achieve a sensitivity to the WIMP-nucleon spin-independent cross-section down to (1--2)\,pb at a WIMP mass of 40 GeV/. This paper describes the simulations framework that, along with radioactivity measurements, was used to support this projection, and also to provide mock data for validating reconstruction and analysis software. Of particular note are the event generators, which allow us to model the background radiation, and the detector response physics used in the production of raw signals, which can be converted into digitized waveforms similar to data from the operational detector. Inclusion of the detector response allows us to process simulated data using the same analysis routines as developed to process the experimental data.
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@article{arxiv.2001.09363,
title = {Simulations of Events for the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Dark Matter Experiment},
author = {ZEPLIN Collaboration and D. S. Akerib and C. W. Akerlof and A. Alqahtani and S. K. Alsum and T. J. Anderson and N. Angelides and H. M. Araújo and J. E. Armstrong and M. Arthurs and X. Bai and J. Balajthy and S. Balashov and J. Bang and D. Bauer and A. Baxter and J. Bensinger and E. P. Bernard and A. Bernstein and A. Bhatti and A. Biekert and T. P. Biesiadzinski and H. J. Birch and K. E. Boast and B. Boxer and P. Brás and J. H. Buckley and V. V. Bugaev and S. Burdin and J. K. Busenitz and R. Cabrita and C. Carels and D. L. Carlsmith and M. C. Carmona-Benitez and M. Cascella and C. Chan and N. I. Chott and A. Cole and A. Cottle and J. E. Cutter and C. E. Dahl and L. de Viveiros and J. E. Y. Dobson and E. Druszkiewicz and T. K. Edberg and S. R. Eriksen and A. Fan and S. Fayer and S. Fiorucci and H. Flaecher and E. D. Fraser and T. Fruth and R. J. Gaitskell and J. Genovesi and C. Ghag and E. Gibson and M. G. D. Gilchriese and S. Gokhale and M. G. D. van der Grinten and C. R. Hall and A. Harrison and S. J. Haselschwardt and S. A. Hertel and J. Y-K. Hor and M. Horn and D. Q. Huang and C. M. Ignarra and O. Jahangir and W. Ji and J. Johnson and A. C. Kaboth and A. C. Kamaha and K. Kamdin and K. Kazkaz and D. Khaitan and A. Khazov and I. Khurana and C. D. Kocher and L. Korley and E. V. Korolkova and J. Kras and H. Kraus and S. Kravitz and L. Kreczko and B. Krikler and V. A. Kudryavtsev and E. A. Leason and J. Lee and D. S. Leonard and K. T. Lesko and C. Levy and J. Li and J. Liao and F. -T. Liao and J. Lin and A. Lindote and R. Linehan and W. H. Lippincott and R. Liu and X. Liu and C. Loniewski and M. I. Lopes and B. López Paredes and W. Lorenzon and S. Luitz and J. M. Lyle and P. A. Majewski and A. Manalaysay and L. Manenti and R. L. Mannino and N. Marangou and M. F. Marzioni and D. N. McKinsey and J. McLaughlin and Y. Meng and E. H. Miller and E. Mizrachi and A. Monte and M. E. Monzani and J. A. Morad and E. Morrison and B. J. Mount and A. St. J. Murphy and D. Naim and A. Naylor and C. Nedlik and C. Nehrkorn and H. N. Nelson and F. Neves and J. A. Nikoleyczik and A. Nilima and I. Olcina and K. C. Oliver-Mallory and S. Pal and K. J. Palladino and J. Palmer and N. Parveen and E. K. Pease and B. Penning and G. Pereira and A. Piepke and K. Pushkin and J. Reichenbacher and C. A. Rhyne and A. Richards and Q. Riffard and G. R. C. Rischbieter and R. Rosero and P. Rossiter and G. Rutherford and D. Santone and A. B. M. R. Sazzad and R. W. Schnee and M. Schubnell and P. R. Scovell and D. Seymour and S. Shaw and T. A. Shutt and J. J. Silk and C. Silva and R. Smith and M. Solmaz and V. N. Solovov and P. Sorensen and I. Stancu and A. Stevens and K. Stifter and T. J. Sumner and N. Swanson and M. Szydagis and M. Tan and W. C. Taylor and R. Taylor and D. J. Temples and P. A. Terman and D. R. Tiedt and M. Timalsina and A. Tomás and M. Tripathi and D. R. Tronstad and W. Turner and L. Tvrznikova and U. Utku and A. Vacheret and A. Vaitkus and J. J. Wang and W. Wang and J. R. Watson and R. C. Webb and R. G. White and T. J. Whitis and F. L. H. Wolfs and D. Woodward and X. Xiang and J. Xu and M. Yeh and P. Zarzhitsky},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.09363},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
24 pages, 19 figures; Corresponding Authors: A. Cottle, V. Kudryavtsev, D. Woodward