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

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physics.ins-det2014★ 2 cited

Results of the material screening program of the NEXT experiment

T. Dafni, V. Alvarez, I. Bandac +67

The 'Neutrino Experiment with a Xenon TPC (NEXT)', intended to investigate neutrinoless double beta decay, requires extremely low background levels. An extensive material screening…

physics.ins-det2014★ 17 cited

Ionization and scintillation of nuclear recoils in gaseous xenon

J. Renner, V. M. Gehman, A. Goldschmidt +75

Ionization and scintillation produced by nuclear recoils in gaseous xenon at approximately 14 bar have been simultaneously observed in an electroluminescent time projection chamber…

physics.ins-det2014★ 27 cited

Characterisation of NEXT-DEMO using xenon K X-rays

NEXT Collaboration, D. Lorca, J. Martín-Albo +63

The NEXT experiment aims to observe the neutrinoless double beta decay of Xe in a high pressure gas TPC using electroluminescence (EL) to amplify the signal from ionization…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 87 cited

Radiogenic and Muon-Induced Backgrounds in the LUX Dark Matter Detector

D. S. Akerib, H. M. Araujo, X. Bai +77

The Large Underground Xenon (LUX) dark matter experiment aims to detect rare low-energy interactions from Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs). The radiogenic backgrounds i…

hep-ex2014★ 48 cited

A Detailed Look at the First Results from the Large Underground Xenon (LUX) Dark Matter Experiment

M. Szydagis, D. S. Akerib, H. M. Araujo +77

LUX, the world's largest dual-phase xenon time-projection chamber, with a fiducial target mass of 118 kg and 10,091 kg-days of exposure thus far, is currently the most sensitive di…