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NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION A-ACCELERATORS SPECTROMETERS DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT
Volume 704, Issue -, Pages 111-126Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2012.11.135
Keywords
Dark matter detectors; Liquid xenon
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Funding
- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-FG02-08ER41549, DE-FG02-91ER40688, DE-FG02-95ER40917, DE-FG02-91ER40674, DE-FG02-11ER41738, DE-SC0006605, DE-AC02- 05CH11231, DE-AC52-07NA27344]
- U.S. National Science Foundation [PHYS-0750671, PHY-0801536, PHY-1004661, PHY-1102470, PHY-1003660]
- Research Corporation [RA0350]
- Center for Ultra-low Background Experiments in the Dakotas (CUBED)
- South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (SDSMT)
- Fundacao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia (FCT) [CERN/FP/123610/2011]
- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-SC0006605] Funding Source: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
- STFC [ST/K001264/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/K001264/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia [CERN/FP/123610/2011] Funding Source: FCT
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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 x 10(-46) cm(2), equivalent to similar to 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 <1 background events characterized as possible WIMPs in the FV in 300 days of running. This paper describes the design and construction of the LUX detector. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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