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The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Experiment
- Source :
- NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION A-ACCELERATORS SPECTROMETERS DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT, The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Collaboration & Murphy, A 2020, ' The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Experiment ', Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, vol. 953, 163047 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2019.163047, Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos), Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC)-FCT-Sociedade da Informação, instacron:RCAAP, BASE-Bielefeld Academic Search Engine
- Publication Year :
- 2019
-
Abstract
- 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. info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
- Subjects :
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Technology
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
0299 Other Physical Sciences
Dark matter
FOS: Physical sciences
chemistry.chemical_element
Scintillator
01 natural sciences
7. Clean energy
Physics, Particles & Fields
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Nuclear physics
LEAD
High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
XENON
Low energy
Xenon
WIMP
0103 physical sciences
0201 Astronomical and Space Sciences
010306 general physics
Nuclear Science & Technology
Underground
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
Instrumentation
Instruments & Instrumentation
physics.ins-det
Physics
Dark matter detector
Time projection chamber
Science & Technology
010308 nuclear & particles physics
hep-ex
Detector
Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
Nuclear & Particles Physics
Neutron capture
Physics, Nuclear
chemistry
Physical Sciences
0202 Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics
Liquid xenon
EMISSION
Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
astro-ph.IM
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 01689002
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION A-ACCELERATORS SPECTROMETERS DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT, The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Collaboration & Murphy, A 2020, ' The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Experiment ', Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, vol. 953, 163047 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2019.163047, Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos), Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC)-FCT-Sociedade da Informação, instacron:RCAAP, BASE-Bielefeld Academic Search Engine
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....7bb3328c8875ff8fd0b6457e973632b0
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2019.163047