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Publications (18)

astro-ph.IM2013

Technical Results from the Surface Run of the LUX Dark Matter Experiment

LUX Collaboration, D. S. Akerib, X. Bai +64

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 Lea…

physics.ins-det2013

An Ultra-Low Background PMT for Liquid Xenon Detectors

D. S. Akerib, X. Bai, E. Bernard +64

Results are presented from radioactivity screening of two models of photomultiplier tubes designed for use in current and future liquid xenon experiments. The Hamamatsu 5.6 cm diam…

astro-ph.CO2014

First results from the LUX dark matter experiment at the Sanford Underground Research Facility

LUX Collaboration, D. S. Akerib, H. M. Araujo +100

The Large Underground Xenon (LUX) experiment, a dual-phase xenon time-projection chamber operating at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (Lead, South Dakota), was cooled and…

hep-ex2011

Exclusive electroproduction of two pions at HERA

ZEUS collaboration, H. Abramowicz, I. Abt +302

The exclusive electroproduction of two pions in the mass range 0.4 < Mππ < 2.5 GeV has been studied with the ZEUS detector at HERA using an integrated luminosity of 82 pb-1. The…

hep-ex2012

Inclusive-jet photoproduction at HERA and determination of alphas

ZEUS Collaboration, H. Abramowicz, I. Abt +303

Inclusive-jet cross sections have been measured in the reaction ep->e+jet+X for photon virtuality Q2 < 1 GeV2 and gamma-p centre-of-mass energies in the region 142 < W(gamma-p) < 2…

hep-ex2011

Measurement of beauty production in deep inelastic scattering at HERA using decays into electrons

ZEUS collaboration, H. Abramowicz, I. Abt +311

The production of beauty quarks in ep interactions has been studied with the ZEUS detector at HERA for exchanged four-momentum squared Q^2 > 10 GeV^2, using an integrated luminosit…

astro-ph.IM2011

After LUX: The LZ Program

D. C. Malling, D. S. Akerib, H. M. Araujo +71

The LZ program consists of two stages of direct dark matter searches using liquid Xe detectors. The first stage will be a 1.5-3 tonne detector, while the last stage will be a 20 to…

hep-ex2012

Measurement of the t dependence in exclusive photoproduction of Upsilon(1S) mesons at HERA

ZEUS collaboration, H. Abramowicz, I. Abt +300

The exclusive photoproduction reaction gamma p -> Upsilon(1S) p has been studied with the ZEUS detector in ep collisions at HERA using an integrated luminosity of 468 pb^-1. The me…

astro-ph.IM2011

Data Acquisition and Readout System for the LUX Dark Matter Experiment

D. S. Akerib, X. Bai, S. Bedikian +60

LUX is a two-phase (liquid/gas) xenon time projection chamber designed to detect nuclear recoils from interactions with dark matter particles. Signals from the LUX detector are pro…

physics.ins-det2012

The Large Underground Xenon (LUX) Experiment

D. S. Akerib, X. Bai, S. Bedikian +91

The Large Underground Xenon (LUX) collaboration has designed and constructed a dual-phase xenon detector, in order to conduct a search for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles(WIMP…

physics.data-an2011

LUXSim: A Component-Centric Approach to Low-Background Simulations

D. S. Akerib, X. Bai, S. Bedikian +60

Geant4 has been used throughout the nuclear and high-energy physics community to simulate energy depositions in various detectors and materials. These simulations have mostly been…

hep-ex2012

Production of Z0 bosons in elastic and quasi-elastic ep collisions at HERA

ZEUS collaboration, H. Abramowicz, I. Abt +300

The production of Z0 bosons in the reaction ep -> eZ0p*, where p* stands for a proton or a low-mass nucleon resonance, has been studied in ep collisions at HERA using the ZEUS dete…

physics.ins-det2012

Radio-assay of Titanium samples for the LUX Experiment

D. S. Akerib, X. Bai, S. Bedikian +63

We report on the screening of samples of titanium metal for their radio-purity. The screening process described in this work led to the selection of materials used in the construct…

hep-ex2014

Measurement of high-Q2 neutral current deep inelastic e+p scattering cross sections with a longitudinally polarised positron beam at HERA

ZEUS Collaboration, H. Abramowicz, I. Abt +300

Measurements of neutral current cross sections for deep inelastic scattering in e+p collisions at HERA with a longitudinally polarised positron beam are presented. The single-diffe…

hep-ex2011

Measurement of heavy-quark jet photoproduction at HERA

ZEUS Collaboration, H. Abramowicz, I. Abt +309

Photoproduction of beauty and charm quarks in events with at least two jets has been measured with the ZEUS detector at HERA using an integrated luminosity of 133 . The fr…

hep-ex2012

Scaled momentum distributions for K0s and Lambda/bar Lambda in DIS at HERA

ZEUS Collaboration, H. Abramowicz, I. Abt +300

Scaled momentum distributions for the strange hadrons K0s and Lambda/bar Lambda were measured in deep inelastic ep scattering with the ZEUS detector at HERA using an integrated lum…

hep-ex2010

Measurement of beauty production in DIS and F_2^bbbar extraction at ZEUS

ZEUS collaboration, H. Abramowicz, I. Abt +311

Beauty production in deep inelastic scattering with events in which a muon and a jet are observed in the final state has been measured with the ZEUS detector at HERA using an integ…

hep-ex2012

Search for single-top production in ep collisions at HERA

ZEUS Collaboration, H. Abramowicz, I. Abt +300

A search for single-top production, , has been performed with the ZEUS detector at HERA using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of $0.37\fbi$. No e…