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

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astro-ph.IM2021★ 8 cited

Enhancing the sensitivity of the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) dark matter experiment to low energy signals

D. S. Akerib, A. K. Al Musalhi, S. K. Alsum +184

Two-phase xenon detectors, such as that at the core of the forthcoming LZ dark matter experiment, use photomultiplier tubes to sense the primary (S1) and secondary (S2) scintillati…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 280 cited

Projected WIMP sensitivity of the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) dark matter experiment

D. S. Akerib, C. W. Akerlof, S. K. Alsum +175

LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) is a next generation dark matter direct detection experiment that will operate 4850 feet underground at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in Lead, So…

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…

astro-ph.IM2012★ 62 cited

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…

astro-ph.IM2011★ 58 cited

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…

astro-ph.IM2011★ 11 cited

ZE3RA: The ZEPLIN-III Reduction and Analysis Package

F. Neves, D. Yu. Akimov, H. M. Araújo +34

ZE3RA is the software package responsible for processing the raw data from the ZEPLIN-III dark matter experiment and its reduction into a set of parameters used in all subsequent a…