Publications

Science

2024

The Design, Implementation, and Performance of the LZ Calibration Systems. e-Print: 2406.12874 

Probing the Scalar WIMP-Pion Coupling with the first LUX-ZEPLIN data. e-Print: 2406.02441 

The Data Acquisition System of the LZ Dark Matter Detector: FADR. e-Print: 2405.14732 

Constraints On Covariant WIMP-Nucleon Effective Field Theory Interactions from the First Science Run of the LUX-ZEPLIN Experiment. e-Print: 2404.17666

New constraints on ultraheavy dark matter from the LZ experiment. Published in Phys. Rev. D 109, 112010 (2024). e-Print: 2402.08865

First Constraints on WIMP-Nucleon Effective Field Theory Couplings in an Extended Energy Region From LUX-ZEPLIN. Published in Phys. Rev. D 109, 092003 (2024). e-Print: 2312.02030

2023

Search for new physics in low-energy electron recoils from the first LZ exposure. Published in Phys.Rev.D 108 (2023) 7, 072006. e-Print: 2307.15753

Background Determination for the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Dark Matter Experiment. Published in Phys.Rev.D 108 (2023) 1, 012010. e-Print: 2211.17120

First dark matter results from the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Experiment. Published in Phys.Rev.Lett. 131 (2023) 4, 041002. e-Print: 2207.03764

2022

A machine learning-based methodology for pulse classification in dual-phase xenon time projection chambers. Published in Eur.Phys.J.C 82 (2022) 6, 553. e-Print: 2201.05659

Cosmogenic production of 37Ar in the context of the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment. Published in Phys.Rev.D 105 (2022) 082004. e-Print: 2201.02858

Design and production of the high voltage electrode grids and electron extraction region for the LZ dual-phase xenon time projection chamber. Published in Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A 1031 (2022) 165955. e-Print: 2106.06622

Optical Calibration System for the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Outer Detector. Published in Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A 1010 (2021) 165551. e-Print: 2102.06281

Enhancing the sensitivity of the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) dark matter experiment to low energy signals. e-Print: 2101.08753

Simulations of Events for the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Dark Matter Experiment. Published in Astropart.Phys. 125 (2021) 102480. e-Print: 2001.09363

2021

Projected sensitivity of the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment to the two-neutrino and neutrinoless double beta decays of 134Xe. Published in Phys.Rev.C. 104 (2021) 065501. e-Print: 2104.13374

Projected sensitivities of the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment to new physics via low-energy electron recoils. Published in Phys.Rev.D 104 (2021) 092009. e-Print: 2102.11740

2020

The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) radioactivity and cleanliness control programs. Published in Eur.Phys.J. C 80 (2020) 1044. e-Print: 2006.02506 

Simulations of Events for the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Dark Matter Experiment. Published in Astropart.Phys. 116 (2020) 102391. e-Print: 2001.09363 

2019

Projected sensitivity of the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment to the 0νββ decay of 136 Xe. Published in Phys.Rev.C 102 (2020) 014602. e-Print: 1912.04248 

The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Experiment. Published in Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A 953 (2020) 163047. e-Print: 1910.09124 

Measurement of the Gamma Ray Background in the Davis Cavern at the Sanford Underground Research Facility. Published in Astropart.Phys. 116 (2020) 102391. e-Print: 1904.02112 

A Liquid Scintillation Detector for Radioassay of Gadolinium-Loaded Liquid Scintillator for the LZ Outer Detector. Published in Nucl.Instrum.Meth. A937 (2019) 148-163. e-Print: 1808.05595 

2018

Projected WIMP sensitivity of the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) dark matter experiment. Published in Phys.Rev.D 101 (2020) 5, 052002. e-Print: 1802.06039 

2017

Black Hills State University Underground Campus. Published in: Appl.Radiat.Isot. 126 (2017) 130-133

LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Technical Design Report, March 27, 2017. e-Print: 1703.09144 

Identification of Radiopure Titanium for the LZ Dark Matter Experiment and Future Rare Event Searches. Published in Astropart.Phys. 96 (2017) 1-10. e-Print: 1702.02646 

2015

LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Conceptual Design Report, September 9, 2015. e-Print: arXiv:1509.02910

Documentation

2021 – Data Management Principles for the LZ Experiment – link

Theses

LZ

LUX

    • Dongqing Huang (Brown): “Ultra-Low Energy Calibration of the LUX and LZ Dark Matter Detectors”
    • Douglas Tiedt (SDSMT): “The Active Veto of the Large Underground Xenon Detector and the Study of Muons Deep Underground”
    • Kate Kamdin (UCB): “A Search for Lightly Ionizing Particles in the LUX Detector and Research and Development For Future Liquid Xenon Time Projection Chambers”
    • Lucie Tvrznikova (Yale): “Sub-GeV Dark Matter Searches and Electric Field Studies for the LUX and LZ Experiments”
    • Elizabeth Boulton (Yale): “Applications of Two-Phase Xenon Time Projection Chambers: Searching for Dark Matter and Special Nuclear Materials”
    • Jon Balajthy (UMD): “Purity Monitoring Techniques and Electronic Energy Deposition Properties in Liquid Xenon Time Projection Chambers”
    • Maria Francesca Marzioni (Edinburgh): “Purity Monitoring Techniques and Electronic Energy Deposition Properties in Liquid Xenon Time Projection Chambers”
    • Curt Nehrkorn (UCSB): “Testing the WIMP hypothesis with the LUX dark matter detector”
    • Brian Tennyson (Yale): “Two-Phase Liquid-Gas Xenon Time Projection Chambers: Theory, Applications, and Analysis”
    • Evan Pease (Yale): “Rare-event searches in liquid xenon with the LUX and LUX-ZEPLIN detectors”
    • Eryk Druszkiewicz (UofR): “Digital Advances in Triggering and Data Acquisition Systems for Large Scale Dark Matter Search Experiments”
    • Rachel Mannino (Texas A&M): “Measuring backgrounds from 85Kr and 210Bi to improve sensitivity of dark matter detectors”
    • Richard Knoche (Maryland): “Signal corrections and calibrations in the LUX dark matter detector”
    • Adam Bailey (Imperial): “Dark matter searches and study of electrode design in LUX and LZ“
    • James Verbus (Brown): “An Absolute Calibration of Sub-1 keV Nuclear Recoils in Liquid Xenon Using D-D Neutron Scattering Kinematics in the LUX Detector”
    • Paulo Brás (Coimbra): “Finding a needle in a haystack: Background studies and WIMP detection efficiency in LUX”
    • Chang Lee (CWRU) “Mitigation of Backgrounds for the Large Underground Xenon Dark Matter Experiment”
    • Attila Dobi (UMD) “Measurement of the Electron Recoil Band of the LUX Dark Matter Detector With a Tritium Calibration Source”
    • Jeremy Mock (UC Davis) “A Search for Dark Matter with the Large Underground Xenon Detector”
    • Patrick Phelps (CWRU) “The LUX Experiment: Detector Performance and Energy Reconstruction”: All the dark secrets, dirty laundry, and dead flies you desire.
    • Jeremy Chapman (Brown) “First WIMP Search Results from the LUX Dark Matter Experiment”
    • Adam Bradley (CWRU): “LUX Thermosyphon Cryogenics and Radon-Related Backgrounds for the First WIMP Result”
    • David Malling (Brown): “Measurement and Analysis of WIMP Detection Backgrounds, and Characterization and Performance of the Large Underground Xenon Dark Matter Search Experiment”
    • Carlos Faham (Brown): “Prototype, Surface Commissioning and Photomultiplier Tube Characterization for the Large Underground Xenon (LUX) Direct Dark Matter Search Experiment”
    • Louis Kastens (Yale): “Calibration of Liquid Xenon Time Projection Chambers for the Direct Detection of Dark Matter”
    • Mark Hanhardt (M.Sc. SD School of Mines): Water Shield PMT Characterization and Muon Flux Surface Measurement for LUX Dark Matter Search

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