First results from the LUX dark matter experiment at the sanford underground research facility

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 112, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Akerib, D S ^b   Araujo H M ^d   Bai, X ^h   Bailey, A J ^d   Balajthy, J ^p   Bedikian, S ^s   Bernard, E ^s   Bernstein, A ^f   Bolozdynya, A ^b   Bradley, A ^b   Byram, D ^r   Cahn, S B ^s   Carmona Benitez, M C ^b,n   Chan, C ^a   Chapman, J J ^a   Chiller, A A ^r   Chiller, C ^r   Clark, K ^b   Coffey, T ^b   Currie, A ^d   Curioni, A ^s   Dazeley, S ^f   De Viveiros, L ^g   Dobi, A ^p   Dobson, J ^o   Dragowsky, E M ^b   Druszkiewicz, E ^q   Edwards, B ^s   Faham, C H ^a,e   Fiorucci, S ^a   Flores, C ^m   Gaitskell, R J ^a   Gehman, V M ^e   Ghag, C ^k   Gibson, K R ^b   Gilchriese, M G D ^e   Hall, C ^p   Hanhardt, M ^h,i   Hertel, S A ^s   Horn, M ^s   Huang, D Q ^a   Ihm, M ^l   Jacobsen, R G ^l   Kastens, L ^s   Kazkaz, K ^f   Knoche, R ^p   Kyre, S ⁿ   Lander, R ^m   Larsen, N A ^s   Lee, C ^b   Leonard, D S ^p   Lesko, K T ^e   Lindote, A ^g   Lopes, M I ^g   Lyashenko, A ^s   Malling, D C ^a   Mannino, R ^j   McKinsey, D N ^s   Mei, D M ^r   Mock, J ^m   Moongweluwan, M ^q   Morad, J ^m   Morii, M ^c   Murphy, A St J ^o   Nehrkorn, C ⁿ   Nelson, H ⁿ   Neves, F ^g   Nikkel, J A ^s   Ott, R A ^m   Pangilinan, M ^a   Parker, P D ^s   Pease, E K ^s   Pech, K ^b   Phelps, P ^b   Reichhart, L ^k   Shutt, T ^b   Silva, C ^g   Skulski, W ^q   Sofka, C J ^j   Solovov, V N ^g   Sorensen, P ^f   Stiegler, T ^j   O'Sullivan, K ^s   Sumner, T J ^d   Svoboda, R ^m   Sweany, M ^m   Szydagis, M ^m   Taylor, D ⁱ   Tennyson, B ^s   Tiedt, D R ^h   Tripathi, M ^m   Uvarov, S ^m   Verbus, J R ^a   Walsh, N ^m   Webb, R ^j   White, J T ^j   White, D ⁿ   Witherell, M S ⁿ   Wlasenko, M ^c   Wolfs, F L H ^q   Woods, M ^m   Zhang, C ^r   more..

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

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

ⁱ South Dakota Science and Technology Authority   (United States)

^j TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^l UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^o UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^p Bldg 142   (United States)

^q UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^r W O Farber Center for Civic Leadership   (United States)

^s Yale University   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC PHYSICS; PHYSICS;

ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES; CONFIDENCE LIMIT; DIRECT DETECTION; RESEARCH FACILITIES; SIGNAL INTERPRETATION; SOUTH DAKOTAS; TIME PROJECTION CHAMBERS; UNDERGROUND LABORATORY;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 84896323418     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.091303     Document Type: Article

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