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Title: Technical results from the surface run of the LUX dark matter experiment

Abstract

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 that will search for cold dark matter in the form of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs). The commissioning run, conducted with the detector immersed in a water tank, validated the integration of the various sub-systems in preparation for the underground deployment. Using the data collected, we report excellent light collection properties, achieving 8.4 photoelectrons per keV for 662 keV electron recoils without an applied electric field, measured in the center of the WIMP target. We also find good energy and position resolution in relatively high-energy interactions from a variety of internal and external sources. Finally, we have used the commissioning data to tune the optical properties of our simulation and report updated sensitivity projections for spin-independent WIMP-nucleon scattering.

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  1. Case Western Reserve Univ., Cleveland, OH (United States). Dept. of Physics
  2. South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD (United States)
  3. Yale Univ., New Haven, CT (United States). Dept. of Physics
  4. Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
  5. Univ. of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD (United States). Dept. of Physics
  6. Brown Univ., Providence, RI (United States). Dept. of Physics
  7. Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States). Dept. of Physics
  8. Univ. of Rochester, NY (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
  9. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Physics
  10. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
  11. Univ. of Coimbra, Rua Larga, Coimbra (Portugal). LIP-Coimbra, Dept. of Physics
  12. Texas A & M Univ., College Station, TX (United States). Dept. of Physics
  13. Univ. of California, Davis, CA (United States). Dept. of Physics
  14. Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States). Dept. of Physics
  15. Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA (United States). Dept. of Physics
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
University of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
Contributing Org.:
Nuclear Science & Security Consortium (NNSC)
OSTI Identifier:
1454541
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1511361
Grant/Contract Number:  
NA0000979; FG02-08ER41549; FG02-91ER40688; FG02-95ER40917; FG02-91ER40674; FG02-11ER41738; FG02-11ER41751; AC52-07NA27344; PHY-0750671; PHY-0801536; PHY-1004661; PHY-1102470; PHY-1003660; RA0350; AC02-05CH11231
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Astroparticle Physics
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 45; Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 0927-6505
Publisher:
Elsevier
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; Liquid xenon detectors; Dark matter; WIMP; Direct detection

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Akerib, D. S., Bai, X., Bernard, E., Bernstein, A., Bradley, A., Byram, D., Cahn, S. B., Carmona-Benitez, M. C., Chapman, J. J., Coffey, T., Dobi, A., Dragowsky, E., Druszkiewicz, E., Edwards, B., Faham, C. H., Fiorucci, S., Gaitskell, R. J., Gibson, K. R., Gilchriese, M., Hall, C., Hanhardt, M., Ihm, M., Jacobsen, R. G., Kastens, L., Kazkaz, K., Knoche, R., Larsen, N., Lee, C., Lesko, K. T., Lindote, A., Lopes, M. I., Lyashenko, A., Malling, D. C., Mannino, R., McKinsey, D. N., Mei, D., Mock, J., Moongweluwan, M., Morii, M., Nelson, H., Neves, F., Nikkel, J. A., Pangilinan, M., Pech, K., Phelps, P., Rodionov, A., Shutt, T., Silva, C., Skulski, W., Solovov, V. N., Sorensen, P., Stiegler, T., Sweany, M., Szydagis, M., Taylor, D., Tripathi, M., Uvarov, S., Verbus, J. R., de Viveiros, L., Walsh, N., Webb, R., White, J. T., Wlasenko, M., Wolfs, F. L. H., Woods, M., and Zhang, C. Technical results from the surface run of the LUX dark matter experiment. United States: N. p., 2013. Web. doi:10.1016/j.astropartphys.2013.02.001.
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Akerib, D. S., Bai, X., Bernard, E., Bernstein, A., Bradley, A., Byram, D., Cahn, S. B., Carmona-Benitez, M. C., Chapman, J. J., Coffey, T., Dobi, A., Dragowsky, E., Druszkiewicz, E., Edwards, B., Faham, C. H., Fiorucci, S., Gaitskell, R. J., Gibson, K. R., Gilchriese, M., Hall, C., Hanhardt, M., Ihm, M., Jacobsen, R. G., Kastens, L., Kazkaz, K., Knoche, R., Larsen, N., Lee, C., Lesko, K. T., Lindote, A., Lopes, M. I., Lyashenko, A., Malling, D. C., Mannino, R., McKinsey, D. N., Mei, D., Mock, J., Moongweluwan, M., Morii, M., Nelson, H., Neves, F., Nikkel, J. A., Pangilinan, M., Pech, K., Phelps, P., Rodionov, A., Shutt, T., Silva, C., Skulski, W., Solovov, V. N., Sorensen, P., Stiegler, T., Sweany, M., Szydagis, M., Taylor, D., Tripathi, M., Uvarov, S., Verbus, J. R., de Viveiros, L., Walsh, N., Webb, R., White, J. T., Wlasenko, M., Wolfs, F. L. H., Woods, M., & Zhang, C. Technical results from the surface run of the LUX dark matter experiment. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.astropartphys.2013.02.001
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Akerib, D. S., Bai, X., Bernard, E., Bernstein, A., Bradley, A., Byram, D., Cahn, S. B., Carmona-Benitez, M. C., Chapman, J. J., Coffey, T., Dobi, A., Dragowsky, E., Druszkiewicz, E., Edwards, B., Faham, C. H., Fiorucci, S., Gaitskell, R. J., Gibson, K. R., Gilchriese, M., Hall, C., Hanhardt, M., Ihm, M., Jacobsen, R. G., Kastens, L., Kazkaz, K., Knoche, R., Larsen, N., Lee, C., Lesko, K. T., Lindote, A., Lopes, M. I., Lyashenko, A., Malling, D. C., Mannino, R., McKinsey, D. N., Mei, D., Mock, J., Moongweluwan, M., Morii, M., Nelson, H., Neves, F., Nikkel, J. A., Pangilinan, M., Pech, K., Phelps, P., Rodionov, A., Shutt, T., Silva, C., Skulski, W., Solovov, V. N., Sorensen, P., Stiegler, T., Sweany, M., Szydagis, M., Taylor, D., Tripathi, M., Uvarov, S., Verbus, J. R., de Viveiros, L., Walsh, N., Webb, R., White, J. T., Wlasenko, M., Wolfs, F. L. H., Woods, M., and Zhang, C. Thu . "Technical results from the surface run of the LUX dark matter experiment". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.astropartphys.2013.02.001. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1454541.
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@article{osti_1454541,
title = {Technical results from the surface run of the LUX dark matter experiment},
author = {Akerib, D. S. and Bai, X. and Bernard, E. and Bernstein, A. and Bradley, A. and Byram, D. and Cahn, S. B. and Carmona-Benitez, M. C. and Chapman, J. J. and Coffey, T. and Dobi, A. and Dragowsky, E. and Druszkiewicz, E. and Edwards, B. and Faham, C. H. and Fiorucci, S. and Gaitskell, R. J. and Gibson, K. R. and Gilchriese, M. and Hall, C. and Hanhardt, M. and Ihm, M. and Jacobsen, R. G. and Kastens, L. and Kazkaz, K. and Knoche, R. and Larsen, N. and Lee, C. and Lesko, K. T. and Lindote, A. and Lopes, M. I. and Lyashenko, A. and Malling, D. C. and Mannino, R. and McKinsey, D. N. and Mei, D. and Mock, J. and Moongweluwan, M. and Morii, M. and Nelson, H. and Neves, F. and Nikkel, J. A. and Pangilinan, M. and Pech, K. and Phelps, P. and Rodionov, A. and Shutt, T. and Silva, C. and Skulski, W. and Solovov, V. N. and Sorensen, P. and Stiegler, T. and Sweany, M. and Szydagis, M. and Taylor, D. and Tripathi, M. and Uvarov, S. and Verbus, J. R. and de Viveiros, L. and Walsh, N. and Webb, R. and White, J. T. and Wlasenko, M. and Wolfs, F. L. H. and Woods, M. and Zhang, C.},
abstractNote = {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 that will search for cold dark matter in the form of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs). The commissioning run, conducted with the detector immersed in a water tank, validated the integration of the various sub-systems in preparation for the underground deployment. Using the data collected, we report excellent light collection properties, achieving 8.4 photoelectrons per keV for 662 keV electron recoils without an applied electric field, measured in the center of the WIMP target. We also find good energy and position resolution in relatively high-energy interactions from a variety of internal and external sources. Finally, we have used the commissioning data to tune the optical properties of our simulation and report updated sensitivity projections for spin-independent WIMP-nucleon scattering.},
doi = {10.1016/j.astropartphys.2013.02.001},
journal = {Astroparticle Physics},
number = C,
volume = 45,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Mar 07 00:00:00 EST 2013},
month = {Thu Mar 07 00:00:00 EST 2013}
}
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