First Results of the LUX Dark Matter Experiment
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Abstract
LUX (Large Underground Xenon) is a dark matter direct detection experiment deployed at the 4850' level of the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in Lead, SD, operating a 370 kg dual-phase xenon TPC. Results of the first WIMP search run were presented in late 2013, for the analysis of 85.3 live-days with a fiducial volume of 118 kg, taken during the period of April to August 2013. The experiment exhibited a sensitivity to spin-independent WIMP-nucleon elastic scattering with a minimum upper limit on the cross section of 7.6×10-46cm2 at a WIMP mass of 33 GeV/c2, becoming the world's leading WIMP search result, in conflict with several previous claimed hints of discovery.
Date Issued
2016-05-31
Date Acceptance
2016-05-31
Citation
Nuclear and Particle Physics Proceedings, 2016, 273-275, pp.309-313
ISSN
2405-6014
Publisher
Elsevier
Start Page
309
End Page
313
Journal / Book Title
Nuclear and Particle Physics Proceedings
Volume
273-275
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
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Published