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Title: The LUX experiment

Journal Article · · Physics Procedia
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  1. Case Western Reserve Univ., Cleveland, OH (United States)
  2. Imperial College, London (United Kingdom)
  3. South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD (United States)
  4. Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States)
  5. Yale Univ., New Haven, CT (United States)
  6. Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
  7. Univ. of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD (United States)
  8. Univ. of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA (United States)
  9. Brown Univ., Providence, RI (United States)
  10. Univ. of Coimbra, Coimbra (Portugal)
  11. Univ. of Edinburgh, Edinburg (United Kingdom)
  12. Univ. of Rochester, Rochester, NY (United States)
  13. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
  14. Univ. of California, Davis, CA (United States)
  15. Univ. College London, London (United Kingdom)
  16. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
  17. Texas A & M Univ., College Station, TX (United States)
  18. Sanford Underground Research Facility, Lead, SD (United States)
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We present the status and prospects of the LUX experiment, which employs approximately 300 kg of two-phase xenon to search for WIMP dark matter interactions. The LUX detector was commissioned at the surface laboratory of the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, SD, between December 2011 and February 2012 and the detector has been operating underground since January, 2013. These proceedings review the results of the commissioning run as well as the status of underground data-taking.

Research Organization:
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
OSTI ID:
1201511
Journal Information:
Physics Procedia, Vol. 61, Issue C; ISSN 1875-3892
Publisher:
ElsevierCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (4)

Cryogenics for the LUX Detector journal August 2009
The Large Underground Xenon (LUX) experiment
  • Akerib, D. S.; Bai, X.; Bedikian, S.
  • Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Vol. 704 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2012.11.135
journal March 2013
Technical results from the surface run of the LUX dark matter experiment journal May 2013
LUXSim: A component-centric approach to low-background simulations
  • Akerib, D. S.; Bai, X.; Bedikian, S.
  • Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Vol. 675 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2012.02.010
journal May 2012

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72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS
xenon detectors
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