The Large Underground Xenon (LUX) Experiment
Instrumentation and Detectors
2013-01-15 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment
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 cm, 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.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1211.3788,
title = {The Large Underground Xenon (LUX) Experiment},
author = {D. S. Akerib and X. Bai and S. Bedikian and E. Bernard and A. Bernstein and A. Bolozdynya and A. Bradley and D. Byram and S. B. Cahn and C. Camp and M. C. Carmona-Benitez and D. Carr and J. J. Chapman and A. Chiller and C. Chiller and K. Clark and T. Classen and T. Coffey and A. Curioni and E. Dahl and S. Dazeley and L. de Viveiros and A. Dobi and E. Dragowsky and E. Druszkiewicz and B. Edwards and C. H. Faham and S. Fiorucci and R. J. Gaitskell and K. R. Gibson and M. Gilchriese and C. Hall and M. Hanhardt and B. Holbrook and M. Ihm and R. G. Jacobsen and L. Kastens and K. Kazkaz and R. Knoche and S. Kyre and J. Kwong and R. Lander and N. A. Larsen and C. Lee and D. S. Leonard and K. T. Lesko and A. Lindote and M. I. Lopes and A. Lyashenko and D. C. Malling and R. Mannino and Z. Marquez and D. N. McKinsey and D. -M. Mei and J. Mock and M. Moongweluwan and M. Morii and H. Nelson and F. Neves and J. A. Nikkel and M. Pangilinan and P. D. Parker and E. K. Pease and K. Pech and P. Phelps and A. Rodionov and P. Roberts and A. Shei and T. Shutt and C. Silva and W. Skulski and V. N. Solovov and C. J. Sofka and P. Sorensen and J. Spaans and T. Stiegler and D. Stolp and R. Svoboda and M. Sweany and M. Szydagis and D. Taylor and J. Thomson and M. Tripathi and S. Uvarov and J. R. Verbus and N. Walsh and R. Webb and D. White and J. T. White and T. J. Whitis and M. Wlasenko and F. L. H. Wolfs and M. Woods and C. Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1211.3788},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
50 pages, 16 figures