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Search for new physics in low-energy electron recoils from the first LZ exposure
Aalbers, J.; Akerib, D. S.; Al Musalhi, A. K.; Alder, F.; Amarasinghe, C. S.; Ames, A.; Anderson, T. J.; Angelides, N.; Araújo, H. M.; Armstrong, J. E.The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment is a dark matter detector centered on a dual-phase xenon time projection chamber. We report searches for new physics appearing through few-keV-scale electron recoils, using the experiment’s first exposure of 60 live days and a fiducial mass of 5.5 t. The data are found to be consistent with a background-only hypothesis, and limits are set on models for new physics including solar ...
First Dark Matter Search Results from the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Experiment
Aalbers, J.; Akerib, D. S.; Akerlof, C. W.; Al Musalhi, A. K.; Alder, F.; Alqahtani, A.; Alsum, S. K.; Amarasinghe, C. S.; Ames, A.; Anderson, T. J.9 pages, 8 figures. See https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.041002 for a data release related to this paper; The LUX-ZEPLIN experiment is a dark matter detector centered on a dual-phase xenon time projection chamber operating at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota, USA. This Letter reports results from LUX-ZEPLIN's first search for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) wit...
A next-generation liquid xenon observatory for dark matter and neutrino physics
Aalbers, J.; AbdusSalam, S. S.; Abe, K.; Aerne, V.; Agostini, F.; Ahmed Maouloud, S.; Akerib, D. S.; Akimov, D. Y.; Akshat, J.; Al Musalhi, A. K.The nature of dark matter and properties of neutrinos are among the most pressing issues in contemporary particle physics. The dual-phase xenon timeprojection chamber is the leading technology to cover the available parameter space for weakly interacting massive particles, while featuring extensive sensitivity to many alternative dark matter candidates. These detectors can also study neutrinos through neutrinol...
The MIGDAL experiment: Measuring a rare atomic process to aid the search for da...
Araújo, H. M.; Balashov, S. N.; Borg, J. E.; Brunbauer, F. M.; Cazzaniga, C.; Frost, C. D.; Garcia, F.; Kaboth, A. C.; Kastriotou, M.; Katsioulas, I.Minor corrections from journal review process; accepted version; We present the Migdal In Galactic Dark mAtter expLoration (MIGDAL) experiment aiming at the unambiguous observation and study of the so-called Migdal effect induced by fast-neutron scattering. It is hoped that this elusive atomic process can be exploited to enhance the reach of direct dark matter search experiments to lower masses, but it is still...
The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) radioactivity and cleanliness control programs
Akerib, D. S.; Akerlof, C. W.; Akimov, D. Yu.; Alquahtani, A.; Alsum, S. K.; Anderson, T. J.; Angelides, N.; Araújo, H. M.; Arbuckle, A.LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) is a second-generation direct dark matter experiment with spin-independent WIMPnucleon scattering sensitivity above 1.4 × 10−48 cm2 for a WIMP mass of 40 GeV/c2 and a 1000 days exposure. LZ achieves this sensitivity through a combination of a large 5.6 t fiducial volume, active inner and outer veto systems, and radio-pure construction using materials with inherently low radioactivity content. Th...
Radiogenic and muon-induced backgrounds in the LUX dark matter detector
Akerib, D. S.; Araújo, H. M.; Bai, X.; Bailey, A. J.; Balajthy, J.; Bernard, E.; Bernstein, A.; Bradley, A.; Byram, D.; Cahn, S. B.The Large Underground Xenon (LUX) dark matter experiment aims to detect rare low-energy interactions from Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs). The radiogenic backgrounds in the LUX detector have been measured and compared with Monte Carlo simulation. Measurements of LUX high-energy data have provided direct constraints on all background sources contributing to the background model. The expected backgro...
Measurements of neutrons produced by high-energy muons at the Boulby Undergroun...
Araújo, H. M.; Blockley, J.; Bungau, C.; Carson, M. J.; Chagani, H.; Daw, E.; Edwards, B.; Ghag, C.; Korolkova, E. V.; Kudryavtsev, V. A.We present the first measurements of the muon-induced neutron flux at the Boulby Underground Laboratory. The experiment was carried out with an 0.73 tonne liquid scintillator that also served as an anticoincidence system for the ZEPLIN-II direct dark matter search. The experimental method exploited the delayed coincidences between high-energy muon signals and gamma-rays from radiative neutron capture on hydroge...
Measurement of single electron emission in two-phase xenon
Edwards, B.; Araújo, H. M.; Chepel, V.; Cline, D.; Durkin, T.; Gao, J.; Ghag, C.; Korolkova, E. V.; Lebedenko, V. N.; Lindote, A.; Lopes, M. I.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6TJ1-4SWWT2R-1/1/e220f50dd0c4e31ff6877963d6b26778
The ZEPLIN II dark matter detector: Data acquisition system and data reduction
Alner, G. J.; Araújo, H. M.; Bewick, A.; Bungau, C.; Camanzi, B.; Carson, M. J.; Chagani, H.; Chepel, V.; Cline, D.; Davidge, D.; Davies, J. C.; Daw, E.ZEPLIN II is a two-phase (liquid/gas) xenon dark matter detector searching for WIMP-nucleon interactions. In this paper we describe the data acquisition system used to record the data from ZEPLIN II and the reduction procedures which parameterise the data for subsequent analysis.; http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6TJM-4R40SHG-9/1/eea3463e234b214a8a5d521b721d303a
Preliminary results on position reconstruction for ZEPLIN III
Lindote, A.; Araújo, H. M.; Cunha, J. Pinto da; Akimov, D. Yu.; Chepel, V.; Davidge, D.; Dawson, J. V.; Joshi, M.; Lebedenko, V. N.; Liubarsky, I.ZEPLIN III is a two-phase xenon detector for direct dark matter search that will look for rare nuclear recoils from elastic scattering of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles off xenon atoms. ZEPLIN III measures both the scintillation and ionisation signals produced in the liquid by the interacting particle. The prompt scintillation is detected by an array of 31 photomultipliers (PM) immersed in the liquid, and...