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most citedResults from a search for dark matter in the complete LUX exposure

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physics.ins-det2026

Single-electron detection in a high-purity Ge device

Antoine Armatol, Corinne Augier, Laurent Bergé +69

High-purity germanium (HPGe) detectors are among the most powerful instruments for gamma ray spectroscopy, combining exceptional energy resolution with large active volumes. Althou…

hep-ex2026

Search for dark matter particle interactions in an extended nuclear recoil energy window with the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment

D. S. Akerib, A. K. Al Musalhi, B. J. Almquist +214

We report on a search for dark matter particles interacting with xenon nuclei in an exposure of 2.84 tonne-years with the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment. An extended nuclear recoil ene…

hep-ex2026

Precision measurement of positron decay modes of Xe-125 in the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment

D. S. Akerib, A. K. Al Musalhi, F. Alder +208

The radioisotope is a short-lived () activation product of the neutron calibrations performed in the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment. Subsequently, $^{12…

physics.ins-det2026

Low Energy Phonon Bursts Created By Fast Neutron Damage

A. Armatol, C. Augier, L. Bergé +67

Solid state athermal phonon calorimeters used in the search for low mass dark matter or coherent neutrino-nucleus interactions have long observed a large excess of events below sev…

physics.ins-det2026

Pushing the Limits of Pulse Shape Discrimination in a Large Liquid Xenon Detector

D. S. Akerib, A. K. Al Musalhi, F. Alder +208

The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment is a direct-detection dark matter experiment, optimized to search for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) through WIMP-nucleon interactions.…

hep-ex2026

Low-Energy Radon Backgrounds from Electrode Grids in Dual-Phase Xenon TPCs

D. S. Akerib, A. K. Al Musalhi, F. Alder +264

The dual-phase xenon time projection chamber (TPC) is a powerful technology to detect rare interactions such as scatters of dark matter particles on nuclei. In particular, the buil…

hep-ex2026

Measurement of the Muon Flux at the Sanford Underground Research Facility with the LUX-ZEPLIN Dark Matter Detector

D. S. Akerib, A. K. Al Musalhi, F. Alder +209

High-energy cosmic-ray muons reaching deep underground laboratories can cause events in detectors that mimic signals expected from dark matter particles, neutrinos, or rare decays.…

physics.ins-det2025

Study of few-electron backgrounds in the LUX-ZEPLIN detector

D. S. Akerib, A. K. Al Musalhi, F. Alder +204

The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment aims to detect rare interactions between dark matter particles and xenon. Although the detector is designed to be the most sensitive to GeV/--Te…

physics.ins-det2025

Low-energy nuclear recoil calibration of the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment with a photoneutron source

J. Aalbers, D. S. Akerib, A. K. Al Musalhi +206

The LZ experiment is a liquid xenon time-projection chamber (TPC) searching for evidence of particle dark matter interactions. In the simplest assumption of elastic scattering, man…

physics.ins-det2025

Flow-dependent tagging of Pb decays in the LZ dark matter detector

J. Aalbers, D. S. Akerib, A. K. Al Musalhi +205

The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment is searching for dark matter interactions in a liquid xenon time projection chamber (LXe-TPC). This article demonstrates how control of the flow stat…

hep-ex2025★ 1 cited

HydroX, a light dark matter search with hydrogen-doped liquid xenon time projection chambers

W. H. Lippincott, H. N. Nelson, D. S. Akerib +30

Experimental efforts searching for dark matter particles over the last few decades have ruled out many candidates led by the new generation of tonne-scale liquid xenon. For light d…

physics.ins-det2024★ 11 cited

Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Sensitivity of the XLZD Rare Event Observatory

XLZD Collaboration, J. Aalbers, K. Abe +441

The XLZD collaboration is developing a two-phase xenon time projection chamber with an active mass of 60 to 80 t capable of probing the remaining WIMP-nucleon interaction parameter…

hep-ex2024★ 21 cited

The XLZD Design Book: Towards the Next-Generation Liquid Xenon Observatory for Dark Matter and Neutrino Physics

XLZD Collaboration, J. Aalbers, K. Abe +441

This report describes the experimental strategy and technologies for XLZD, the next-generation xenon observatory sensitive to dark matter and neutrino physics. In the baseline desi…

nucl-ex2024★ 8 cited

Two-neutrino double electron capture of Xe in the first LUX-ZEPLIN exposure

J. Aalbers, D. S. Akerib, A. K. Al Musalhi +202

The broad physics reach of the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment covers rare phenomena beyond the direct detection of dark matter. We report precise measurements of the extremely rare dec…

hep-ex2024★ 4 cited

Probing the Scalar WIMP-Pion Coupling with the first LUX-ZEPLIN data

J. Aalbers, D. S. Akerib, A. K. Al Musalhi +200

Weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) may interact with a virtual pion that is exchanged between nucleons. This interaction channel is important to consider in models where…

physics.ins-det2024★ 7 cited

The Design, Implementation, and Performance of the LZ Calibration Systems

J. Aalbers, D. S. Akerib, A. K. Al Musalhi +200

LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) is a tonne-scale experiment searching for direct dark matter interactions and other rare events. It is located at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) i…

physics.ins-det2024★ 1 cited

The Data Acquisition System of the LZ Dark Matter Detector: FADR

J. Aalbers, D. S. Akerib, A. K. Al Musalhi +213

The Data Acquisition System (DAQ) for the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) dark matter detector is described. The signals from 745 PMTs, distributed across three subsystems, are sampled with 100-MH…

nucl-ex2024

Report from the Workshop on Xenon Detector Searches: Steps Towards the Kilotonne Scale

A. Anker, A. Avasthi, M. Brodeur +35

These proceedings summarize the program and discussions of the ``Workshop on Xenon Detector Searches: Steps Towards the Kilotonne Scale'' held on October 25-27 2023 at SLAC…

hep-ex2024★ 2 cited

Constraints On Covariant WIMP-Nucleon Effective Field Theory Interactions from the First Science Run of the LUX-ZEPLIN Experiment

J. Aalbers, D. S. Akerib, A. K. Al Musalhi +201

The first science run of the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment, a dual-phase xenon time project chamber operating in the Sanford Underground Research Facility in South Dakota, USA, has re…

hep-ex2024★ 23 cited

New constraints on ultraheavy dark matter from the LZ experiment

J. Aalbers, D. S. Akerib, A. K. Al Musalhi +196

Searches for dark matter with liquid xenon time projection chamber experiments have traditionally focused on the region of the parameter space that is characteristic of weakly inte…

hep-ex2023

Towards a neutrino-limited dark matter search with crystalline xenon

H. Chen, R. Gibbons, S. J. Haselschwardt +3

Experiments searching for weakly interacting massive particle dark matter are now detecting background events from solar neutrino-electron scattering. However, the dominant backgro…

hep-ex2023★ 20 cited

First Constraints on WIMP-Nucleon Effective Field Theory Couplings in an Extended Energy Region From LUX-ZEPLIN

LZ Collaboration, J. Aalbers, D. S. Akerib +197

Following the first science results of the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment, a dual-phase xenon time projection chamber operating from the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead,…

physics.ins-det2023★ 5 cited

Why would you put a flashlight in a dark matter detector?

R. Gibbons, H. Chen, S. J. Haselschwardt +2

Silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) are solid-state, single-photon sensitive, pixelated sensors whose usage for scintillation detection has rapidly increased over the past decade. It…

hep-ex2023★ 6 cited

First measurement of discrimination between helium and electron recoils in liquid xenon for low-mass dark matter searches

S. J. Haselschwardt, R. Gibbons, H. Chen +5

We report the first measurement of discrimination between low-energy helium recoils and electron recoils in liquid xenon. This result is relevant to proposed low-mass dark matter s…