Technical results from the surface run of the LUX dark matter experiment

Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 45, Issue , 2013, Pages 34-43

  Akerib, D S ^b   Bai, X ^g   Bernard, E ^o   Bernstein, A ^e   Bradley, A ^b   Byram, D ⁿ   Cahn, S B ^o   Carmona Benitez, M C ^b   Chapman, J J ^a   Coffey, T ^b   Dobi, A ^l   Dragowsky, E ^b   Druszkiewicz, E ^m   Edwards, B ^o   Faham, C H ^a   Fiorucci, S ^a   Gaitskell, R J ^a   Gibson, K R ^b   Gilchriese, M ⁱ   Hall, C ^l   Hanhardt, M ^g   Ihm, M ⁱ   Jacobsen, R G ⁱ   Kastens, L ^o   Kazkaz, K ^e   Knoche, R ^l   Larsen, N ^o   Lee, C ^b   Lesko, K T ^d   Lindote, A ^f   Lopes, M I ^f   Lyashenko, A ^o   Malling, D C ^a   Mannino, R ^h   McKinsey, D N ^o   Mei, D ⁿ   Mock, J ^j   Moongweluwan, M ^m   Morii, M ^c   Nelson, H ^k   Neves, F ^f   Nikkel, J A ^o   Pangilinan, M ^a   Pech, K ^b   Phelps, P ^b   Rodionov, A ^h   Shutt, T ^b   Silva, C ^f   Skulski, W ^m   Solovov, V N ^f   Sorensen, P ^e   Stiegler, T ^h   Sweany, M ^j   Szydagis, M ^j   Taylor, D ⁱ   Tripathi, M ^j   Uvarov, S ^j   Verbus, J R ^a   De Viveiros, L ^f   Walsh, N ^j   Webb, R ^h   White, J T ^h   Wlasenko, M ^c   Wolfs, F L H ^m   Woods, M ^j   Zhang, C ⁿ   more..

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^g SOUTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MINES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^h TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^o Yale University   (United States)

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Author keywords

Dark matter; Direct detection; Liquid xenon detectors; WIMP

Indexed keywords

COLD DARK MATTERS; DARK MATTER; DIRECT DETECTION; LIQUID XENON; POSITION RESOLUTION; RESEARCH FACILITIES; WEAKLY INTERACTING MASSIVE PARTICLES; WIMP;

DETECTORS; ELECTRIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC FIELDS; GALAXIES; LIQUIDS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SCATTERING; WATER TANKS;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 84876240868     PISSN: 09276505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.astropartphys.2013.02.001     Document Type: Article

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