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

1.6k citations · 2.6k across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

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…

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-det2013★ 28 cited

Modeling Pulse Characteristics in Xenon with NEST

Jeremy Mock, Nichole Barry, Kareem Kazkaz +5

A comprehensive model for describing the characteristics of pulsed signals, generated by particle interactions in xenon detectors, is presented. An emphasis is laid on two-phase ti…

astro-ph.IM2013★ 2 cited

Underground Commissioning of LUX

Michael Woods

LUX is a dual-phase xenon TPC designed for the direct detection of dark matter. Using 370 kg of xenon, LUX is capable of setting a WIMP-nucleon cross section limit at 2 x 10^-46 cm…

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…