The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment

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作者
Akerib, D. S. [1 ,2 ]
Akerlof, C. W. [3 ]
Akimov, D. Yu [4 ]
Alquahtani, A. [5 ]
Alsum, S. K. [6 ]
Anderson, T. J. [1 ,2 ]
Angelides, N. [7 ]
Araujo, H. M. [8 ]
Arbuckle, A. [6 ]
Armstrong, J. E. [9 ]
Arthurs, M. [3 ]
Auyeung, H. [1 ]
Bai, X. [10 ]
Bailey, A. J. [8 ]
Balajthy, J. [11 ]
Balashov, S. [12 ]
Bang, J. [5 ]
Barry, M. J. [13 ]
Barthel, J. [14 ]
Bauer, D. [8 ]
Bauer, P. [14 ]
Baxter, A. [15 ]
Belle, J. [16 ]
Beltrame, P. [17 ]
Bensinger, J. [18 ]
Benson, T. [6 ]
Bernard, E. P. [13 ,19 ]
Bernstein, A. [20 ]
Bhatti, A. [9 ]
Biekert, A. [13 ,19 ]
Biesiadzinski, T. P. [1 ,2 ]
Birrittella, B. [6 ]
Boast, K. E. [21 ]
Bolozdynya, A., I [4 ]
Boulton, E. M. [19 ,22 ]
Boxer, B. [15 ]
Bramante, R. [1 ,2 ]
Branson, S. [6 ]
Bras, P. [23 ]
Breidenbach, M. [1 ]
Buckley, J. H. [24 ]
Bugaev, V. V. [24 ]
Bunker, R. [10 ]
Burdin, S. [15 ]
Busenitz, J. K. [25 ]
Campbell, J. S. [6 ]
Carels, C. [21 ]
Carlsmith, D. L. [6 ]
Carlson, B. [14 ]
Carmona-Benitez, M. C. [26 ]
机构
[1] SLAC Natl Accelerator Lab, Menlo Pk, CA 94025 USA
[2] Stanford Univ, Kavli Inst Particle Astrophys & Cosmol, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
[3] Univ Michigan, Randall Lab Phys, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA
[4] NRNU, MEPhI, Moscow 115409, Russia
[5] Brown Univ, Dept Phys, Providence, RI 02912 USA
[6] Univ Wisconsin, Dept Phys, 1150 Univ Ave, Madison, WI 53706 USA
[7] UCL, Dept Phys & Astron, London WC1E 6BT, England
[8] Imperial Coll London, Phys Dept, Blackett Lab, London SW7 2AZ, England
[9] Univ Maryland, Dept Phys, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
[10] South Dakota Sch Mines & Technol, Rapid City, SD 57701 USA
[11] Univ Calif Davis, Dept Phys, Davis, CA 95616 USA
[12] STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab RAL, Didcot OX11 0QX, Oxon, England
[13] LBNL, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[14] SDSTA, Sanford Underground Res Facil, Lead, SD 57754 USA
[15] Univ Liverpool, Dept Phys, Liverpool L69 7ZE, Merseyside, England
[16] FNAL, Batavia, IL 60510 USA
[17] Univ Edinburgh, Sch Phys & Astron, SUPA, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, Midlothian, Scotland
[18] Brandeis Univ, Dept Phys, Waltham, MA 02453 USA
[19] Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Phys, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[20] Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab, Livermore, CA 94550 USA
[21] Univ Oxford, Dept Phys, Oxford OX1 3RH, England
[22] Yale Univ, Dept Phys, New Haven, CT 06511 USA
[23] Univ Coimbra, Lab Instrumentacao & Fis Expt Particulas LIP, P-3004516 Coimbra, Portugal
[24] Washington Univ, Dept Phys, St Louis, MO 63130 USA
[25] Univ Alabama, Dept Phys & Astron, Tuscaloosa, AL 34587 USA
[26] Penn State Univ, Dept Phys, 104 Davey Lab, University Pk, PA 16802 USA
[27] Univ South Dakota, Dept Phys & Earth Sci, Vermillion, SD 57069 USA
[28] Northwestern Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, Evanston, IL 60208 USA
[29] Univ Rochester, Dept Phys & Astron, Rochester, NY 14627 USA
[30] Univ Bristol, HH Wills Phys Lab, Bristol BS8 1TL, Avon, England
[31] Brookhaven Natl Lab, Upton, NY 11973 USA
[32] Univ Calif Santa Barbara, Dept Phys, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA
[33] Univ Massachusetts, Dept Phys, Amherst, MA 01003 USA
[34] SUNY Albany, Dept Phys, Albany, NY 12222 USA
[35] Royal Holloway Univ London, Dept Phys, Egham TW20 0EX, Surrey, England
[36] Inst for Basic Sci Korea, CUP, Daejeon, South Korea
[37] Univ Sheffield, Dept Phys & Astron, Sheffield S3 7RH, S Yorkshire, England
[38] Black Hills State Univ, Sch Nat Sci, Spearfish, SD 57799 USA
[39] Texas A&M Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, College Stn, TX 77843 USA
[40] Case Western Reserve Univ, Dept Phys, Cleveland, OH 44106 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
Dark matter detector; Liquid xenon; Time projection chamber; Underground; XENON; EMISSION; LEAD;
D O I
10.1016/j.nima.2019.163047
中图分类号
TH7 [仪器、仪表];
学科分类号
0804 ; 080401 ; 081102 ;
摘要
We describe the design and assembly of the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment, a direct detection search for cosmic WIMP dark matter particles. The centerpiece of the experiment is a large liquid xenon time projection chamber sensitive to low energy nuclear recoils. Rejection of backgrounds is enhanced by a Xe skin veto detector and by a liquid scintillator Outer Detector loaded with gadolinium for efficient neutron capture and tagging. LZ is located in the Davis Cavern at the 4850' level of the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota, USA. We describe the major subsystems of the experiment and its key design features and requirements.
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