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First Results of the LUX Dark Matter Experiment
- Source :
- Nuclear and Particle Physics Proceedings; April-June 2016, Vol. 273 Issue: 1 p309-313, 5p
- Publication Year :
- 2016
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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 7.6×10−46cm2at a WIMP mass of 33 GeV/c2, becoming the world's leading WIMP search result, in conflict with several previous claimed hints of discovery.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 24056014
- Volume :
- 273
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Supplemental Index
- Journal :
- Nuclear and Particle Physics Proceedings
- Publication Type :
- Periodical
- Accession number :
- ejs39281589
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2015.09.043