Improved Limits on Scattering of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles from Reanalysis of 2013 LUX Data

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 116, Issue 16, 2016, Pages

  Akerib, D S ^a,b,c   Araujo H M ^d   Bai, X ^e   Bailey, A J ^d   Balajthy, J ^f   Beltrame, P ^g   Bernard, E P ^h   Bernstein, A ⁱ   Biesiadzinski, T P ^a,b,c   Boulton, E M ^h   Bradley, A ^a   Bramante, R ^a,b,c   Cahn, S B ^h   Carmona Benitez, M C ^j   Chan, C ^k   Chapman, J J ^k   Chiller, A A ^l   Chiller, C ^l   Currie, A ^d   Cutter, J E ^m   Davison, T J R ^g   De Viveiros, L ⁿ   Dobi, A ^o   Dobson, J E Y ^p   Druszkiewicz, E ^q   Edwards, B N ^h   Faham, C H ^o   Fiorucci, S ^o   Gaitskell, R J ^k   Gehman, V M ^o   Ghag, C ^p   Gibson, K R ^a   Gilchriese, M G D ^o   Hall, C R ^f   Hanhardt, M ^e,r   Haselschwardt, S J ^j   Hertel, S A ^h,o,s   Hogan, D P ^s   Horn, M ^h,o,s   Huang, D Q ^k   Ignarra, C M ^b,c   Ihm, M ^o,s   Jacobsen, R G ^o,s   Ji, W ^a,b,c   Kazkaz, K ⁱ   Khaitan, D ^q   Knoche, R ^f   Larsen, N A ^h   Lee, C ^a,b,c   Lenardo, B G ^i,m   Lesko, K T ^o   Lindote, A ⁿ   Lopes, M I ⁿ   Malling, D C ^k   Manalaysay, A ^m   Mannino, R L ^t   Marzioni, M F ^g   McKinsey, D N ^h,o,s   Mei, D M ^l   Mock, J ^u   Moongweluwan, M ^q   Morad, J A ^m   Murphy, A St J ^g   Nehrkorn, C ^j   Nelson, H N ^j   Neves, F ⁿ   O'Sullivan, K ^h,o,s   Oliver Mallory, K C ^o,s   Ott, R A ^m   Palladino, K J ^b,c,v   Pangilinan, M ^k   Pease, E K ^h,o,s   Phelps, P ^a   Reichhart, L ^p   Rhyne, C ^k   Shaw, S ^p   Shutt, T A ^a,b,c   Silva, C ⁿ   Solovov, V N ⁿ   Sorensen, P ^o   Stephenson, S ^m   Sumner, T J ^d   Szydagis, M ^u   Taylor, D J ^r   Taylor, W ^k   Tennyson, B P ^h   Terman, P A ^t   Tiedt, D R ^e   To, W H ^a,b,c   Tripathi, M ^m   Tvrznikova, L ^h,o,s   Uvarov, S ^m   Verbus, J R ^k   Webb, R C ^t   White, J T ^t   Whitis, T J ^a,b,c   Witherell, M S ^j   Wolfs, F L H ^q   Yazdani, K ^d   Young, S K ^u   Zhang, C ^l   more..

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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

^f University of Maryland   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^h Yale University   (United States)

ⁱ LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^k BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^o LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^p UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^q UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^r South Dakota Science and Technology Authority   (United States)

^s UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^t TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^u STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^v University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DARK MATTER; GALAXIES; PARTICLE BEAMS;

BACKGROUND MODEL; DARK MATTER HALOS; EVENT RECONSTRUCTION; MINIMUM ENERGY; NUCLEAR RECOIL; SINGLE PHOTONS; UPPER LIMITS; WEAKLY INTERACTING MASSIVE PARTICLES;

GERMANIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84964194088     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.161301     Document Type: Article

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