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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-det2021★ 9 cited

The Electric Field Dependence of Single Electron Emission in the PIXeY Two-Phase Xenon Detector

E. Bodnia, E. P. Bernard, A. Biekert +12

Dual phase xenon detectors are widely used in experimental searches for galactic darkmatter particles. The origin of single electron backgrounds following prompt scintillation and…

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…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 11 cited

An Effective Field Theory Analysis of the First LUX Dark Matter Search

D. S. Akerib, S. Alsum, H. M. Araújo +94

The Large Underground Xenon (LUX) dark matter search was a 250-kg active mass dual-phase time projection chamber that operated by detecting light and ionization signals from partic…

physics.ins-det2019★ 6 cited

Analysis of Kr Prompt Scintillation Signals in the PIXeY Detector

A. G. Singh, A. Biekert, E. Bernard +12

Prompt scintillation signals from Kr calibration sources are a useful metric to calibrate the spatial variation of light collection efficiency and electric field magnitude…

astro-ph.IM2018

High-Precision Scanning Water Vapor Radiometers for Cosmic Microwave Background Site Characterization and Comparison

D. Barkats, R. Bowens-Rubin, W. H. Clay +7

The compelling science case for the observation of B-mode polarization in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is driving the CMB community to expand the observed sky fraction, ei…

physics.ins-det2017★ 43 cited

Calibration, event reconstruction, data analysis and limits calculation for the LUX dark matter experiment

D. S. Akerib, S. Alsum, H. M. Araújo +95

The LUX experiment has performed searches for dark matter particles scattering elastically on xenon nuclei, leading to stringent upper limits on the nuclear scattering cross sectio…

physics.ins-det2017★ 15 cited

Extraction efficiency of drifting electrons in a two-phase xenon time projection chamber

B. N. V. Edwards, E. Bernard, E. M. Boulton +8

We present a measurement of the extraction efficiency of quasi-free electrons from the liquid into the gas phase in a two-phase xenon time-projection chamber. The measurements span…

physics.ins-det2017★ 32 cited

Position Reconstruction in LUX

LUX Collaboration, D. S. Akerib, S. Alsum +91

The position reconstruction method used in the analysis of the complete exposure of the Large Underground Xenon (LUX) experiment is presented. The algorithm is based on a…

physics.ins-det2017★ 49 cited

Ultra-Low Energy Calibration of LUX Detector using Xe Electron Capture

LUX Collaboration, D. S. Akerib, S. Alsum +91

We report an absolute calibration of the ionization yields($\textit{Q$_y$})$ and fluctuations for electronic recoil events in liquid xenon at discrete energies between 186 eV and 3…

physics.ins-det2017★ 25 cited

3D Modeling of Electric Fields in the LUX Detector

LUX Collaboration, D. S. Akerib, S. Alsum +91

This work details the development of a three-dimensional (3D) electric field model for the LUX detector. The detector took data during two periods of searching for weakly interacti…

physics.ins-det2017★ 36 cited

Kr calibration of the 2013 LUX dark matter search

LUX Collaboration, D. S. Akerib, S. Alsum +91

LUX was the first dark matter experiment to use a Kr calibration source. In this paper we describe the source preparation and injection. We also present several $^…

physics.ins-det2017★ 37 cited

Calibration of a two-phase xenon time projection chamber with a Ar source

E. M. Boulton, E. Bernard, N. Destefano +8

We calibrate a two-phase xenon detector at 0.27 keV in the charge channel and at 2.8 keV in both the light and charge channels using a Ar source that is directly released in…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 234 cited

Limits on spin-dependent WIMP-nucleon cross section obtained from the complete LUX exposure

LUX Collaboration, D. S. Akerib, S. Alsum +97

We present experimental constraints on the spin-dependent WIMP-nucleon elastic cross sections from the total 129.5 kg-year exposure acquired by the Large Underground Xenon experime…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 140 cited

First Searches for Axions and Axion-Like Particles with the LUX Experiment

D. S. Akerib, S. Alsum, C. Aquino +98

The first searches for axions and axion-like particles with the Large Underground Xenon (LUX) experiment are presented. Under the assumption of an axio-electric interaction in xeno…

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-det2016★ 50 cited

Signal yields, energy resolution, and recombination fluctuations in liquid xenon

D. S. Akerib, S. Alsum, H. M. Araújo +98

This work presents an analysis of monoenergetic electronic recoil peaks in the dark-matter-search and calibration data from the first underground science run of the Large Undergrou…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 1.6k cited

Results from a search for dark matter in the complete LUX exposure

D. S. Akerib, S. Alsum, H. M. Araújo +98

We report constraints on spin-independent weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP)-nucleon scattering using a 3.35e4 kg-day exposure of the Large Underground Xenon (LUX) experime…

physics.ins-det2016★ 55 cited

Low-energy (0.7-74 keV) nuclear recoil calibration of the LUX dark matter experiment using D-D neutron scattering kinematics

LUX Collaboration, D. S. Akerib, S. Alsum +104

The Large Underground Xenon (LUX) experiment is a dual-phase liquid xenon time projection chamber (TPC) operating at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota…

physics.ins-det2016★ 37 cited

Chromatographic separation of radioactive noble gases from xenon

LUX Collaboration, D. S. Akerib, H. M. Araújo +96

The Large Underground Xenon (LUX) experiment operates at the Sanford Underground Research Facility to detect nuclear recoils from the hypothetical Weakly Interacting Massive Partic…

hep-ex2016★ 166 cited

Results on the Spin-Dependent Scattering of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles on Nucleons from the Run 3 Data of the LUX Experiment

LUX Collaboration, D. S. Akerib, H. M. Araújo +99

We present the first experimental constraints on the spin-dependent WIMP-nucleon elastic cross sections from LUX data acquired in 2013. LUX is a dual-phase xenon time projection ch…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 393 cited

Improved Limits on Scattering of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles from Reanalysis of 2013 LUX data

LUX Collaboration, D. S. Akerib, H. M. Araújo +99

We present constraints on weakly interacting massive particles (WIMP)-nucleus scattering from the 2013 data of the Large Underground Xenon dark matter experiment, including $1.4\ti…

physics.ins-det2015★ 96 cited

Tritium calibration of the LUX dark matter experiment

LUX Collaboration, D. S. Akerib, H. M. Araújo +98

We present measurements of the electron-recoil (ER) response of the LUX dark matter detector based upon 170,000 highly pure and spatially-uniform tritium decays. We reconstruct the…

physics.ins-det2015★ 14 cited

FPGA-based Trigger System for the LUX Dark Matter Experiment

D. S. Akerib, H. M. Araujo, X. Bai +100

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

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…