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most citedFirst Dark Matter Search Results from the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Experiment

747 citations · 1.7k across the 25 of their papers we have counts for

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26 papers

physics.ins-det2026

EXO-200 Public Data Release for AI/ML Applications

S. Al Kharusi, G. Anton, I. Badhrees +103

We present a public release of a subset of calibration data from the EXO-200 experiment, a liquid xenon time projection chamber designed to search for neutrinoless double-beta deca…

hep-ex2023★ 6 cited

First measurement of discrimination between helium and electron recoils in liquid xenon for low-mass dark matter searches

S. J. Haselschwardt, R. Gibbons, H. Chen +5

We report the first measurement of discrimination between low-energy helium recoils and electron recoils in liquid xenon. This result is relevant to proposed low-mass dark matter s…

hep-ex2023★ 56 cited

A search for new physics in low-energy electron recoils from the first LZ exposure

The LZ Collaboration, J. Aalbers, D. S. Akerib +200

The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment is a dark matter detector centered on a dual-phase xenon time projection chamber. We report searches for new physics appearing through few-keV-scale…

hep-ex2023★ 6 cited

Generative Adversarial Networks for Scintillation Signal Simulation in EXO-200

S. Li, I. Ostrovskiy, Z. Li +87

Generative Adversarial Networks trained on samples of simulated or actual events have been proposed as a way of generating large simulated datasets at a reduced computational cost.…

hep-ex2023★ 6 cited

Search for Two-neutrino Double-Beta Decay of to the excited state of with the Complete EXO-200 Dataset

200 Collaboration, S. Al Kharusi, G. Anton +104

A new search for two-neutrino double-beta () decay of to the excited state of is performed with the full EXO-200 dataset. A deep learnin…

hep-ex2022★ 38 cited

Background Determination for the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Dark Matter Experiment

J. Aalbers, D. S. Akerib, A. K. Al Musalhi +200

The LUX-ZEPLIN experiment recently reported limits on WIMP-nucleus interactions from its initial science run, down to cm for the spin-independent interactio…

hep-ex2022★ 747 cited

First Dark Matter Search Results from the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Experiment

J. Aalbers, D. S. Akerib, C. W. Akerlof +344

The LUX-ZEPLIN experiment is a dark matter detector centered on a dual-phase xenon time projection chamber operating at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dak…

hep-ex2022★ 12 cited

Search for MeV Electron Recoils from Dark Matter in EXO-200

200 Collaboration, S. Al Kharusi, G. Anton +104

We present a search for electron-recoil signatures from the charged-current absorption of fermionic dark matter using the EXO-200 detector. We report an average electron recoil bac…

hep-ex2022★ 12 cited

Cosmogenic production of Ar in the context of the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment

J. Aalbers, D. S. Akerib, A. K. Al Musalhi +205

We estimate the amount of Ar produced in natural xenon via cosmic ray-induced spallation, an inevitable consequence of the transportation and storage of xenon on the Earth's…

hep-ex2021★ 3 cited

Search for Majoron-emitting modes of Xe double beta decay with the complete EXO-200 dataset

S. Al Kharusi, G. Anton, I. Badhrees +103

A search for Majoron-emitting modes of the neutrinoless double-beta decay of Xe is performed with the full EXO-200 dataset. This dataset consists of a total Xe expo…

physics.ins-det2021★ 10 cited

The EXO-200 detector, part II: Auxiliary Systems

N. Ackerman, J. Albert, M. Auger +157

The EXO-200 experiment searched for neutrinoless double-beta decay of Xe with a single-phase liquid xenon detector. It used an active mass of 110 kg of 80.6%-enriched liqui…

nucl-ex2021★ 166 cited

NEXO: Neutrinoless double beta decay search beyond year half-life sensitivity

nEXO Collaboration, G. Adhikari, S. Al Kharusi +158

The nEXO neutrinoless double beta decay experiment is designed to use a time projection chamber and 5000 kg of isotopically enriched liquid xenon to search for the decay in $^{136}…

physics.ins-det2021★ 12 cited

Reflectivity of VUV-sensitive Silicon Photomultipliers in Liquid Xenon

M. Wagenpfeil, T. Ziegler, J. Schneider +140

Silicon photomultipliers are regarded as a very promising technology for next-generation, cutting-edge detectors for low-background experiments in particle physics. This work prese…

physics.ins-det2020★ 6 cited

Event Reconstruction in a Liquid Xenon Time Projection Chamber with an Optically-Open Field Cage

T. Stiegler, S. Sangiorgio, J. P. Brodsky +148

nEXO is a proposed tonne-scale neutrinoless double beta decay () experiment using liquid (LXe) in a Time Projection Chamber (TPC) to read out ionization and scin…

nucl-ex2020★ 9 cited

Measurement of the Spectral Shape of the beta-decay of 137Xe to the Ground State of 137Cs in EXO-200 and Comparison with Theory

S. Al Kharusi, G. Anton, I. Badhrees +105

We report on a comparison between the theoretically predicted and experimentally measured spectra of the first-forbidden non-unique -decay transition $^{137}\textrm{Xe}(7/2^-)\t…

physics.ins-det2019★ 18 cited

Reflectance of Silicon Photomultipliers at Vacuum Ultraviolet Wavelengths

P. Lv, G. F. Cao, L. J. Wen +148

Characterization of the vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) reflectance of silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) is important for large-scale SiPM-based photodetector systems. We report the angula…

physics.ins-det2019★ 18 cited

Measurements of electron transport in liquid and gas Xenon using a laser-driven photocathode

O. Njoya, T. Tsang, M. Tarka +153

Measurements of electron drift properties in liquid and gaseous xenon are reported. The electrons are generated by the photoelectric effect in a semi-transparent gold photocathode…

physics.ins-det2019★ 17 cited

Reflectivity and PDE of VUV4 Hamamatsu SiPMs in Liquid Xenon

P. Nakarmi, I. Ostrovskiy, A. K. Soma +152

Understanding reflective properties of materials and photodetection efficiency (PDE) of photodetectors is important for optimizing energy resolution and sensitivity of the next gen…

physics.ins-det2019★ 34 cited

Measurement of the scintillation and ionization response of liquid xenon at MeV energies in the EXO-200 experiment

200 Collaboration, G. Anton, I. Badhrees +99

Liquid xenon (LXe) is employed in a number of current and future detectors for rare event searches. We use the EXO-200 experimental data to measure the absolute scintillation and i…

physics.ins-det2019★ 15 cited

Simulation of charge readout with segmented tiles in nEXO

Z. Li, W. R. Cen, A. Robinson +150

nEXO is a proposed experiment to search for the neutrino-less double beta decay () of Xe in a tonne-scale liquid xenon time projection chamber (TPC). The nEXO TPC wil…

hep-ex2019★ 258 cited

Search for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay with the Complete EXO-200 Dataset

G. Anton, I. Badhrees, P. S. Barbeau +99

A search for neutrinoless double-beta decay () in Xe is performed with the full EXO-200 dataset using a deep neural network to discriminate between and backgro…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 51 cited

Characterization of the Hamamatsu VUV4 MPPCs for nEXO

G. Gallina, P. Giampa, F. Retiere +148

In this paper we report on the characterization of the Hamamatsu VUV4 (S/N: S13370-6152) Vacuum Ultra-Violet (VUV) sensitive Silicon Photo-Multipliers (SiPMs) as part of the develo…

physics.ins-det2018★ 11 cited

Study of Silicon Photomultiplier Performance in External Electric Fields

X. L. Sun, T. Tolba, G. F. Cao +149

We report on the performance of silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) light sensors operating in electric field strength up to 30 kV/cm and at a temperature of 149K, relative to their per…

physics.ins-det2018★ 43 cited

VUV-sensitive Silicon Photomultipliers for Xenon Scintillation Light Detection in nEXO

A. Jamil, T. Ziegler, P. Hufschmidt +140

Future tonne-scale liquefied noble gas detectors depend on efficient light detection in the VUV range. In the past years Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) have emerged as a valid al…