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20042025
most citedFirst results from the LUX dark matter experiment at the Sanford Underground Research Facility

1.6k citations · 3.5k across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

hep-ex2025

LDMX -- The Light Dark Matter eXperiment

Torsten Akesson, Layan Alsaraya, Stephen Appert +116

The Light Dark Matter eXperiment (LDMX) is an electron fixed-target experiment optimized to search for sub-GeV dark matter production through the missing momentum signature. LDMX i…

physics.ins-det2024★ 3 cited

Using graph neural networks to reconstruct charged pion showers in the CMS High Granularity Calorimeter

M. Aamir, G. Adamov, T. Adams +568

A novel method to reconstruct the energy of hadronic showers in the CMS High Granularity Calorimeter (HGCAL) is presented. The HGCAL is a sampling calorimeter with very fine transv…

physics.ins-det2023★ 4 cited

Timing Performance of the CMS High Granularity Calorimeter Prototype

CMS HGCAL collaboration

This paper describes the experience with the calibration, reconstruction and evaluation of the timing capabilities of the CMS HGCAL prototype in the beam tests in 2018. The calibra…

physics.ins-det2022

Performance of the CMS High Granularity Calorimeter prototype to charged pion beams of 20300 GeV/c

B. Acar, G. Adamov, C. Adloff +454

The upgrade of the CMS experiment for the high luminosity operation of the LHC comprises the replacement of the current endcap calorimeter by a high granularity sampling calorimete…

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…

physics.ins-det2021★ 19 cited

Response of a CMS HGCAL silicon-pad electromagnetic calorimeter prototype to 20-300 GeV positrons

B. Acar, G. Adamov, C. Adloff +385

The Compact Muon Solenoid Collaboration is designing a new high-granularity endcap calorimeter, HGCAL, to be installed later this decade. As part of this development work, a protot…

physics.ins-det2020

Construction and commissioning of CMS CE prototype silicon modules

B. Acar, G. Adamov, C. Adloff +327

As part of its HL-LHC upgrade program, the CMS Collaboration is developing a High Granularity Calorimeter (CE) to replace the existing endcap calorimeters. The CE is a sampling cal…

physics.ins-det2020★ 10 cited

The DAQ system of the 12,000 Channel CMS High Granularity Calorimeter Prototype

B. Acar, G. Adamov, C. Adloff +327

The CMS experiment at the CERN LHC will be upgraded to accommodate the 5-fold increase in the instantaneous luminosity expected at the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC). Concomitant wit…

physics.ins-det2020★ 60 cited

The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) radioactivity and cleanliness control programs

D. S. Akerib, C. W. Akerlof, D. Yu. Akimov +387

LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) is a second-generation direct dark matter experiment with spin-independent WIMP-nucleon scattering sensitivity above cm for a WIMP mass…

physics.ins-det2018★ 14 cited

A Liquid Scintillation Detector for Radioassay of Gadolinium-Loaded Liquid Scintillator for the LZ Outer Detector

S. J. Haselschwardt, S. Shaw, H. N. Nelson +6

We report on the design and performance of the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) "Screener", a small liquid scintillator detector consisting of kg of LAB-based gadolinium-loaded liquid…

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…

physics.ins-det2017

LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Technical Design Report

B. J. Mount, S. Hans, R. Rosero +259

In this Technical Design Report (TDR) we describe the LZ detector to be built at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF). The LZ dark matter experiment is designed to achi…

physics.ins-det2017★ 36 cited

Identification of Radiopure Titanium for the LZ Dark Matter Experiment and Future Rare Event Searches

D. S. Akerib, C. W. Akerlof, D. Yu. Akimov +202

The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment will search for dark matter particle interactions with a detector containing a total of 10 tonnes of liquid xenon within a double-vessel cryostat. Th…

physics.ins-det2015★ 126 cited

LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Conceptual Design Report

The LZ Collaboration, D. S. Akerib, C. W. Akerlof +192

The design and performance of the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) detector is described as of March 2015 in this Conceptual Design Report. LZ is a second-generation dark-matter detector with the p…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 1.6k cited

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…

physics.ins-det2012★ 334 cited

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.ins-det2009★ 12 cited

Performance studies of the CMS Strip Tracker before installation

CMS Tracker Collaboration

In March 2007 the assembly of the Silicon Strip Tracker was completed at the Tracker Integration Facility at CERN. Nearly 15% of the detector was instrumented using cables, fiber o…

astro-ph2004★ 266 cited

First Results from the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search in the Soudan Underground Lab

CDMS Collaboration

We report the first results from a search for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) in the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS) experiment at the Soudan Underground Laborator…