Results from a Search for Dark Matter in the Complete LUX Exposure

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2017, Pages

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

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium   (United States)

^e IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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

^g University of Maryland   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^j Yale University   (United States)

^k LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^m UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA   (United States)

ⁿ South Dakota Science and Technology Authority   (United States)

^o UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^p BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^q UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^r LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^s UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^t UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^u TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^v STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

XENON;

ACTIVE MASS; CONFIDENCE LEVELS; DARK MATTER; NUCLEAR RECOIL; RESEARCH FACILITIES; SOUTH DAKOTAS; TIME PROJECTION CHAMBERS; WEAKLY INTERACTING MASSIVE PARTICLES;

GERMANIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 85010333009     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.021303     Document Type: Article

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