First Results of the LUX Dark Matter Experiment
- Carmona-Benitez, MC;
- Collaboration, LUX;
- Akerib, DS;
- Araújo, HM;
- Bai, X;
- Bailey, AJ;
- Balajthy, J;
- Beltrame, P;
- Bernard, E;
- Bernstein, A;
- Bradley, A;
- Byram, D;
- Cahn, SB;
- Chan, C;
- Chapman, JJ;
- Chiller, AA;
- Chiller, C;
- Currie, A;
- de Viveiros, L;
- Dobi, A;
- Dobson, J;
- Druszkiewicz, E;
- Edwards, B;
- Faham, CH;
- Fiorucci, S;
- Flores, C;
- Gaitskell, RJ;
- Gehman, VM;
- Ghag, C;
- Gibson, KR;
- Gilchriese, MGD;
- Hall, C;
- Hanhardt, M;
- Haselschwardt, S;
- Hertel, SA;
- Horn, M;
- Huang, DQ;
- Ihm, M;
- Jacobsen, RG;
- Kazkaz, K;
- Knoche, R;
- Larsen, NA;
- Lee, C;
- Lenardo, B;
- Lesko, KT;
- Lindote, A;
- Lopes, MI;
- Malling, DC;
- Manalaysay, A;
- Mannino, R;
- McKinsey, DN;
- Mei, D-M;
- Mock, J;
- Moongweluwan, M;
- Morad, J;
- Murphy, A St J;
- Nehrkorn, C;
- Nelson, H;
- Neves, F;
- Ott, RA;
- Pangilinan, M;
- Parker, PD;
- Pease, EK;
- Pech, K;
- Phelps, P;
- Reichhart, L;
- Shutt, T;
- Silva, C;
- Solovov, VN;
- Sorensen, P;
- O'Sullivan, K;
- Sumner, TJ;
- Szydagis, M;
- Taylor, D;
- Tennyson, B;
- Tiedt, DR;
- Tripathi, M;
- Tvrznikova, L;
- Uvarov, S;
- Verbus, JR;
- Walsh, N;
- Webb, R;
- White, JT;
- Witherell, MS;
- Wolfs, FLH;
- Woods, M;
- Zhang, C
- et al.
Published Web Location
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1310.8214.pdfAbstract
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.
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