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Title: Tritium calibration of the LUX dark matter experiment

Journal Article · · Physical Review D
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  1. Case Western Reserve Univ., Cleveland, OH (United States); SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA (United States). et al.

Research Organization:
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA (United States); Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
Contributing Organization:
LUX Collaboration
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-76SF00515; FG02-08ER41549; FG02-91ER40688; FG02-95ER40917; FG02-91ER40674; NA0000979; FG02-11ER41738; SC0006605; AC02-05CH11231; AC52-07NA27344; FG01-91ER40618; FG01-91ER40618FG02-08ER41549; SC0011702
OSTI ID:
1257742
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1248255; OSTI ID: 1436594; OSTI ID: 1602002; OSTI ID: 1869516
Report Number(s):
SLAC-PUB-16556; LLNL-JRNL-833891; PRVDAQ
Journal Information:
Physical Review D, Vol. 93, Issue 7; ISSN 2470-0010
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 67 works
Citation information provided by
Web of Science

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Directly Detecting Sub-GeV Dark Matter with Electrons from Nuclear Scattering text January 2018
Improved Measurements of the β-Decay Response of Liquid Xenon with the LUX Detector journal February 2020
First dark matter search results from the XENON1T experiment text January 2017
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Dark Matter Search Results from a One Ton-Year Exposure of XENON1T text January 2018
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Signal yields of keV electronic recoils and their discrimination from nuclear recoils in liquid xenon text January 2018
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