Carmona-Benitez, MC;
Akerib, DS;
Araujo, HM;
Bai, X;
Bailey, AJ;
Balajthy, J;
Beltrame, P;
... Zhang, C; + view all
(2016)
First Results of the LUX Dark Matter Experiment.
Nuclear and Particle Physics Proceedings
, 273-5
pp. 309-313.
10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2015.09.043.
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Abstract
LUX (Large Underground Xenon) is a dark matter direct detection experiment deployed at the 4850' level of the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in Lead, SD, operating a 370 kg dual-phase xenon TPC. Results of the first WIMP search run were presented in late 2013, for the analysis of 85.3 live-days with a fiducial volume of 118 kg, taken during the period of April to August 2013. The experiment exhibited a sensitivity to spin-independent WIMP-nucleon elastic scattering with a minimum upper limit on the cross section of 7.6×10−46cm2 at a WIMP mass of 33 GeV/c2, becoming the world's leading WIMP search result, in conflict with several previous claimed hints of discovery.
Type: | Article |
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Title: | First Results of the LUX Dark Matter Experiment |
Location: | Valencia, SPAIN |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2015.09.043 |
Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2015.09.04... |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | Copyright © 2015 Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
Keywords: | dark matter, WIMP, liquid xenon, time projection chamber |
UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Physics and Astronomy |
URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1501263 |
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