The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment

Akerib, D. S.; Akerlof, C. W.; Akimov, D. Yu; Alquahtani, A.; Alsum, S. K.; Anderson, T. J.; Angelides, N.; Araújo, H. M.; Arbuckle, A.; Armstrong, J. E.; Arthurs, M.; Auyeung, H.; Bai, X.; Bailey, A. J.; Balajthy, J.; Balashov, S.; Bang, J.; Barry, M. J.; Barthel, J.; Bauer, D.; Bauer, P.; Baxter, A.; Belle, J.; Beltrame, P.; Bensinger, J.; Benson, T.; Bernard, E. P.; Bernstein, A.; Bhatti, A.; Biekert, A.; Biesiadzinski, T. P.; Birrittella, B.; Boast, K. E.; Bolozdynya, A. I.; Boulton, E. M.; Boxer, B.; Bramante, R.; Branson, S.; Brás, P.; Breidenbach, M.; Buckley, J. H.; Bugaev, V. V.; Bunker, R.; Burdin, S.; Busenitz, J. K.; Campbell, J. S.; Carels, C.; Carlsmith, D. L.; Carlson, B.; Carmona-Benitez, M. C.; Cascella, M.; Chan, C.; Cherwinka, J. J.; Chiller, A. A.; Chiller, C.; Chott, N. I.; Cole, A.; Coleman, J.; Colling, D.; Conley, R. A.; Cottle, A.; Coughlen, R.; Craddock, W. W.; Curran, D.; Currie, A.; Cutter, J. E.; da Cunha, J. P.; Dahl, C. E.; Dardin, S.; Dasu, S.; Davis, J.; Davison, T. J.R.; de Viveiros, L.; Decheine, N.; Dobi, A.; Dobson, J. E.Y.; Druszkiewicz, E.; Dushkin, A.; Edberg, T. K.; Edwards, W. R.; Edwards, B. N.; Edwards, J.; Elnimr, M. M.; Emmet, W. T.; Eriksen, S. R.; Faham, C. H.; Fan, A.; Fayer, S.; Fiorucci, S.; Flaecher, H.; Fogarty Florang, I. M.; Ford, P.; Francis, V. B.; Froborg, F.; Fruth, T.; Gaitskell, R. J.; Gantos, N. J.; Garcia, D.; Geffre, A.; Gehman, V. M.

The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment

Date

2020-02-11

Authors

Akerib, D. S.

Akerlof, C. W.

Akimov, D. Yu

Alquahtani, A.

Alsum, S. K.

Anderson, T. J.

Angelides, N.

Araújo, H. M.

Arbuckle, A.

Armstrong, J. E.

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Abstract

We describe the design and assembly of the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment, a direct detection search for cosmic WIMP dark matter particles. The centerpiece of the experiment is a large liquid xenon time projection chamber sensitive to low energy nuclear recoils. Rejection of backgrounds is enhanced by a Xe skin veto detector and by a liquid scintillator Outer Detector loaded with gadolinium for efficient neutron capture and tagging. LZ is located in the Davis Cavern at the 4850’ level of the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota, USA. We describe the major subsystems of the experiment and its key design features and requirements.

Keywords

Dark matter detector, Liquid xenon, Time projection chamber, Underground

Citation

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment. v.953

URI

10.1016/j.nima.2019.163047
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0168900219314032
https://dspace.uohyd.ac.in/handle/1/10107

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Electronics Science and Technology - Publications

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