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A tool that can constrain, in minutes, beyond-the-standard-model parameters like electric dipole moments (EDM) down to a lower-bound $d_\text{e}^{\cal{N}}<10^{-37}\text{e}\cdot\text{cm}$ in bulk materials, or the coupling of axion-like…
We present the results of the three-month above-ground commissioning run of the Large Underground Xenon (LUX) experiment at the Sanford Underground Research Facility located in Lead, South Dakota, USA. LUX is a 370 kg liquid xenon detector…
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