The Large Underground Xenon (LUX) experiment

• DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2012.11.135
• Publication Date: 2012-11-29T18:34:19Z
• Authors: D.S. Akerib; X. Bai; S. Bedikian; E. Bernard; A. Bernstein; A. Bolozdynya; A. Bradley; D. Byram; S.B. Cahn; C. Camp; M.C. Carmona-Benitez; D. Carr; J.J. Chapman; A. Chiller; C. Chiller; K. Clark; T. Classen; T. Coffey; A. Curioni; E. Dahl; S. Dazeley; L. de Viveiros; A. Dobi; E. Dragowsky; E. Druszkiewicz; B. Edwards; C.H. Faham; S. Fiorucci; R.J. Gaitskell; K.R. Gibson; M. Gilchriese; C. Hall; M. Hanhardt; B. Holbrook; M. Ihm; R.G. Jacobsen; L. Kastens; K. Kazkaz; R. Knoche; S. Kyre; J. Kwong; R. Lander; N.A. Larsen; C. Lee; D.S. Leonard; K.T. Lesko; A. Lindote; M.I. Lopes; A. Lyashenko; D.C. Malling; R. Mannino; Z. Marquez; D.N. McKinsey; D.-M. Mei; J. Mock; M. Moongweluwan; M. Morii; H. Nelson; F. Neves; J.A. Nikkel; M. Pangilinan; P.D. Parker; E.K. Pease; K. Pech; P. Phelps; A. Rodionov; P. Roberts; A. Shei; T. Shutt; C. Silva; W. Skulski; V.N. Solovov; C.J. Sofka; P. Sorensen; J. Spaans; T. Stiegler; D. Stolp; R. Svoboda; M. Sweany; M. Szydagis; D. Taylor; J. Thomson; M. Tripathi; S. Uvarov; J.R. Verbus; N. Walsh; R. Webb; D. White; J.T. White; T.J. Whitis; M. Wlasenko; F.L.H. Wolfs; M. Woods; C. Zhang
• Keywords: Fiducial marker; WIMP

50 pages, 16 figures<br/>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(WIMPs), a leading dark matter candidate. The goal of the LUX detector is to clearly detect (or exclude) WIMPS with a spin independent cross section per nucleon of $2\times 10^{-46}$ cm$^{2}$, equivalent to $\sim$1 event/100 kg/month in the inner 100-kg fiducial volume (FV) of the 370-kg detector. The overall background goals are set to have $<br/>