Dark matter direct-detection experiments

TM Undagoitia, L Rauch - Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
In recent decades, several detector technologies have been developed with the quest to
directly detect dark matter interactions and to test one of the most important unsolved …

Colloquium: Majorana fermions in nuclear, particle, and solid-state physics

SR Elliott, M Franz - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2015 - APS
Abstract Ettore Majorana (1906–1938) disappeared while traveling by ship from Palermo to
Naples in 1938. His fate has never been fully resolved and several articles have been …

Results from a search for dark matter in the complete LUX exposure

DS Akerib, S Alsum, HM Araújo, X Bai, AJ Bailey… - Physical review …, 2017 - APS
We report constraints on spin-independent weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP)-
nucleon scattering using a 3.35× 1 0 4 kg day exposure of the Large Underground Xenon …

Projected WIMP sensitivity of the LUX-ZEPLIN dark matter experiment

DS Akerib, CW Akerlof, SK Alsum, HM Araújo… - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) is a next-generation dark matter direct detection experiment that will
operate 4850 feet underground at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in …

The lux-zeplin (lz) experiment

DS Akerib, CW Akerlof, DY Akimov, A Alquahtani… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2020 - Elsevier
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 …

Improved limits on scattering of weakly interacting massive particles from reanalysis of 2013 LUX data

DS Akerib, HM Araújo, X Bai, AJ Bailey, J Balajthy… - Physical review …, 2016 - APS
We present constraints on weakly interacting massive particles (WIMP)-nucleus scattering
from the 2013 data of the Large Underground Xenon dark matter experiment, including 1.4× …

First results from the LUX dark matter experiment at the Sanford Underground Research Facility

DS Akerib, HM Araújo, X Bai, AJ Bailey, J Balajthy… - Physical review …, 2014 - APS
Abstract The Large Underground Xenon (LUX) experiment is a dual-phase xenon time-
projection chamber operating at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (Lead, South …

Current status of direct dark matter detection experiments

J Liu, X Chen, X Ji - Nature Physics, 2017 - nature.com
Much like ordinary matter, dark matter might consist of elementary particles, and weakly
interacting massive particles are one of the prime suspects. During the past decade, the …

DARWIN: towards the ultimate dark matter detector

J Aalbers, F Agostini, M Alfonsi, FD Amaro… - … of Cosmology and …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
DARk matter WImp search with liquid xenoN (DARWIN) will be an experiment for the direct
detection of dark matter using a multi-ton liquid xenon time projection chamber at its core. Its …

Results on the spin-dependent scattering of weakly interacting massive particles on nucleons from the run 3 data of the LUX experiment

DS Akerib, HM Araújo, X Bai, AJ Bailey, J Balajthy… - Physical Review Letters, 2016 - APS
We present experimental constraints on the spin-dependent WIMP (weakly interacting
massive particle)-nucleon elastic cross sections from LUX data acquired in 2013. LUX is a …