Science

2026

Precision measurement of positron decay modes of Xe-125 in the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment. e-Print: 2604.21503

Pushing the limits of pulse shape discrimination in a large liquid xenon detector. Accepted for publication in Eur. Phys. J. C. e-Print: 2603.26877

Low-energy radon backgrounds from electrode grids in dual-phase xenon TPCs. e-Print: 2602.21177

Measurement of the muon flux at the Sanford Underground Research Facility with the LUX-ZEPLIN dark matter detector. e-Print: 2602.16799

2025

Searches for light dark matter and evidence of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering of solar neutrinos with the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment. Accepted for publication in PRL, e-Print: 2512.08065

Search for new physics via low-energy electron recoils with a 4.2 tonne x year exposure from the LZ experiment. e-Print: 2511.1735

Study of few-electron backgrounds in the LUX-ZEPLIN detector. Published in Phys. Rev. D 113, 072018, e-Print: 2510.06500

Low-energy nuclear recoil calibration of the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment with a photoneutron source. e-Print: 2509.16281

Flow-dependent tagging of 214Pb decays in the LZ dark matter detector. e-Print: 2508.19117

Dark Matter Search Results from 4.2  Tonne−Years of Exposure of the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Experiment. Published in Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 011802, (pub: July 1st 2025), e-Print: 2410.17036, and Sensitivity Data 

Measurements and models of enhanced recombination following inner-shell vacancies in liquid xenon. Published in Phys. Rev. D 112, 012024, e-Print: 2503.05679

New constraints on cosmic ray-boosted dark matter from the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment. Published in Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 241801, e-Print: 2503.18158

2024

First search for atmospheric millicharged particles with the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment. Published in Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 241802, e-Print: 2412.04854

Two-neutrino double electron capture of 124Xe in the first LUX-ZEPLIN exposure. Published in J. Phys. G 52, 015103, e-Print: 2408.17391

The Design, Implementation, and Performance of the LZ Calibration Systems. Published in JINST 19, P08027. e-Print: 2406.12874 

Probing the Scalar WIMP-Pion Coupling with the first LUX-ZEPLIN data. Published in Commun. Phys. 7, 292, e-Print: 2406.02441 

The Data Acquisition System of the LZ Dark Matter Detector: FADR. Published in Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 1068, 169712, e-Print: 2405.14732 

Constraints On Covariant WIMP-Nucleon Effective Field Theory Interactions from the First Science Run of the LUX-ZEPLIN Experiment. Published in Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 221801, e-Print: 2404.17666

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

2023

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

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

2022

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

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

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

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

2021

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, 165955, e-Print: 2106.06622

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

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

Projected sensitivity of the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment to the two-neutrino and neutrinoless double beta decays of 134Xe. Published in Phys. Rev. C. 104, 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, 092009, e-Print: 2102.11740

2020

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

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

2019

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

The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Experiment. Published in Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 953, 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, 102391, e-Print: 1904.02112 

2018

A Liquid Scintillation Detector for Radioassay of Gadolinium-Loaded Liquid Scintillator for the LZ Outer Detector. Published in Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 937, 148-163, e-Print: 1808.05595 

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

2017

Black Hills State University Underground Campus. Published in Appl. Radiat. Isot. 126, 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, 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

• 2026
  • Makayla Trask (UCSB): “Studies and Statistics of the LZ Dark Matter Experiment and the HydroX Upgrade“
• 2025
  • Sparshita Dey (Oxford University): “Electric Fields and their Implications in the LUX-ZEPLIN Time Projection Chamber“
  • Anh Nguyen (Edinburgh University): “Search for new physics via low-energy electron recoils with the LZ experiment and low background technique enhancements with the Boulby laboratory“
  • Yufan Qie (University of Rochester): “Pulse Shape Discrimination in the LUX-ZEPLIN Experiment“
  • Elise McCarthy (University of Rochester): “The Fingerprints of Pauli’s Ghosts: Core-collapse supernova detection with the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment“
  • Greg Blockinger (University at Albany): ” Backgrounds and Efficiencies for Low-Energy Searches, and Improved Calibrations Techniques in the LUX-ZEPLIN Dark Matter Experiment“
  • Harvey Birch (University of Zurich): “Dark Matter Searches and the Measurement of the Atmospheric Muon Flux with the LUX-ZEPLIN Experiment“
  • Jemima Tranter (Sheffield University): “Environmental background in a dual-phase xenon dark matter experiment“
  • Harkirat Singh Riyat (Edinburgh University): “Low Energy Electron Recoil Searches with the LUX-ZEPLIN Experiment for Beyond the Standard Model Physics“
  • John Armstrong (University of Maryland): “Measurement of Dissolved Beta Decay Sources in the LUX-ZEPLIN Experiment“
  • Jo Orpwood (Sheffield University): “Single Scatter Neutron Background Estimates using Multiple Scatters of Neutrons in the LUX-ZEPLIN Experiment“
  • Rafi Sazzad (University of Alabama): “Radon Detection and AmLi Source Development For the LUX-ZEPLIN Dark Matter Experiment“
  • Drew Ames (Stanford University): “Low Energy Sensitivity Enhancement and Background Mitigation in Liquid Xenon Dark Matter Detectors“
  • Eric Morrison (South Dakota Mines): “Mitigation of Radon Daughter Backgrounds for the LUX-ZEPLIN Dark Matter Search Experiment“
• 2024
  • Sam Woodford (Liverpool University): “Data Quality Monitoring, Calibration of the Outer Detector, and Optimisation of Neutron Veto Efficiency for Dark Matter Searches with the LUX-ZEPLIN Experiment“
  • Dan Hunt (Oxford University): “Optimising Low-Mass WIMP Searches in the LUX-ZEPLIN Experiment“
  • Tom Rushton (Sheffield university): “Neutron Activation Backgrounds in the LUX-ZEPLIN Experiment“
  • Austin Vaitkus (Brown University): “Characterization of the R11410-22 Photomultiplier Tube and the Search for a Neutron-Induced Migdal Effect in the LUX-ZEPLIN Experiment“
  • Jeanne Bang (Brown University): “Implementation of a Deuterium-Deuterium Neutron Generator and its Application for Nuclear Recoil Calibration and the Search for the Migdal Effect in the LUX-ZEPLIN Experiment“
  • Casey Rhyne (Brown University): “Development of Tagged Low Energy D- and H-Based Scintillator Reflector Neutron Sources and Characterizations of a D-D Neutron Generator for Calibrations of the LZ Detector“
  • Zhaozhen Tong (Imperial College London): “Majoron-Emitting Double Beta Decays in the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Experiment“
  • Jack Bargemann (UCSB): “Background Discrimination and the Search for Dark Matter with the LUX-ZEPLIN Experiment“
  • Anna David (UCL): “Background Mitigation in the LUX-ZEPLIN Experiment Using Statistical Analysis of Waveforms“
  • Albert Baker (Imperial College London): “Low-Energy Signals in the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Experiment and Spectral Measurements of Xenon Luminescence“
  • Niamh Fearon (Oxford University): “Constraining cavern backgrounds for the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment“
  • Jacob McLaughlin (Northwestern University): “Modelling of Inner-Shell Scatters in Liquid Xenon and Flow Based 214Pb Vetoes in LUX-ZEPLIN“
  • Jack Genovesi (SDSMT): “Search for Time Dependent Dark Matter Signals with the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Experiment“
  • Emily Perry (UCL) : ” Background Mitigation in LZ and Next Generation Rare Event Searches“
  • Nishat Parveen (University at Albany): “Modeling the Wall Background in the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Dark Matter Experiment“
  • Eli Mizrachi (University of Maryland): “Studies of Ionization Backgrounds in Noble Liquid Detectors For Dark Matter Searches“
  • Ryan McMonigle (University at Albany, M.Sc.): “Updating Nuclear Recoil Models in the Noble Element Simulation Technique for the LUX-ZEPLIN Experiment“
• 2023
  • Ryan Smith (UC Berkeley): ” Searches for weakly interacting and multiply interacting massive particles with LZ, and characterization of nuclear recoils in helium“
  • Aiham Al Musalhi (Oxford University): ” Searches for rare nuclear decays in the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment“
  • Daniel Kodroff (Penn State University): ” Background Modeling and First Searches for Low Energy Signals in the LUX-ZEPLIN Dark Matter Experiment“
  • Tyler Anderson (Stanford University): “The LZ Dark Matter WIMP Search and Treatment of Fundamental Signals” 
  • Robert James (UCL): ” Signals, backgrounds and statistical inference for dark matter direct detection experiments“
  • Ishan Khurana (UCL): ” Mitigating Accidental Coincidence Backgrounds in the LZ experiment” 
  • Guilherme Pereira (LIP / University of Coimbra): ” Continuous Calibration and Monitoring for the LZ Dark Matter Experiment“
  • Luke Korley (University of Michigan): ” The Veto System of the LZ Dark Matter Expriment“
• 2022
  • Madan Timalsina (SDSMT): “Calibrations for the Improved Search for Dark Matter with the LZ (LUX-ZEPLIN) Experiment”
    
  • Ewan Fraser (University of Liverpool): “Calibration of the Outer Detector, Development of Data Quality Monitoring and Study of Laboratory Backgrounds for Dark Matter Searches with LUX-ZEPLIN“
  • Sam Eriksen (University of Bristol): “Commissioning of the Outer Detector of the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment and a study of the experiment’s sensitivity to signatures arising from effective field theory operators“
  • Reed Watson (UC Berkeley): “High Voltage Considerations for Dark Matter Searches“
  • Ryan Linehan (Stanford University): “High Voltage Electrode Development and the LZ Experiment’s WIMP Search“
  • Andrew Naylor (Sheffield University): “Background studies for LUX and LZ: activation, gammas from rock and krypton removal“
  • Maris Arthurs (University of Michigan): “Radon Reduction and the First Science Results of the LZ Experiment“
  • Greg Rischbieter (University at Albany): “Signal Yields and Detector Modeling in Xenon Time Projection Chambers, and Results of an Effective Field Theory Dark Matter Search Using LUX Data” 
  • Will Taylor (Brown University): “Neutron Calibrations and Activation Signals in Low-Background Liquid Xenon Dark Matter Detectors“
  • Chris Nedlik (UMass Amherst): “Calibration of the LUX-ZEPLIN Dual-Phase Xenon Time Projection Chamber With Internally Injected Radioisotopes“
  • Jonathan Nikoleyczik (UW Madison): “The Construction, Background Modeling, and Statistical Hypothesis Testing of the LZ Detector“
• 2021
  • Andrew Stevens (Oxford University): “Development of the ionisation signal analysis and the thermometry system for the LUX-ZEPLIN direct Dark Matter detection experiment“
  • Nicolas Angelides (UCL): “LZ Commissioning and Background Studies” 
    
  • Athoy Nilima (Edinburgh University): “Sensitivity projections for hidden photons and axion-like particles in the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment”
  • Kelly Stifter (Stanford University): “The LZ Dark Matter Experiment: From Detector Development to Early Data“
  • Dylan Temples (Northwestern University): “Signatures of the Invisible: New Considerations for Xenon Dark Matter Searches“
  • Umit Utku (UCL): “Background and sensitivity studies for the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment“
  • Peter Rossiter (University of Sheffield): “Background mitigation in dual phase xenon time projection chambers”
  • Billy Boxer (University of Liverpool): “LUX-ZEPLIN Dark Matter Searches: Development of Optical and Source Based Calibration Systems“
• 2020
  • Paulo Brás (LIP / University of Coimbra): “Sensitivity to the 0νββ decay of 136Xe and development of Machine Learning tools for pulse classification for the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment“
  • Rob Taylor (Imperial College London): “Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay in Dual-phase Xenon Time Projection Chambers: LUX, LZ and Prospects for G3“
  • Melih Solmaz (UCSB): “Search for annual and diurnal modulations in the LUX experiment and assembling a tagged neutron source for the LZ Outer Detector“
  • D.Q. Huang (Brown University): “Ultra-Low Energy Calibration of the LUX and LZ Dark Matter Detectors”
• 2019 
  • Ibles Olcina (Imperial College London): “A statistical framework for the characterisation of WIMP dark matter with the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment”
  • Wei Ji (Stanford university): “The LZ Dark Matter Search and Development of a New Gas Phase Technique to Characterize Low Level Electron Emission from Electrode Grids“
  • Theresa Fruth (Oxford University): “PMT Studies and Loop Antenna Development for the LZ Dark Matter Search“
  • TJ Whitis (CWRU/SLAC): “Measurement of Time Projection Chamber Optical Properties and Xenon Circulation System Development for The LZ Experiment“
• 2018
  • Scott Haselschwardt (UCSB): “Radioassay of Gadolinium-Loaded Liquid Scintillator and Other Studies for the LZ Outer Detector“
  • David Woodward (University of Sheffield): “Simulations of cosmic muons and background radiations for muon tomography and underground experiments”
• 2016 
  • Sally Shaw (UCL): “Dark Matter Searches with the LUX and LZ Experiments“

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

ZEPLIN-III

• • Anthony Hollingsworth (Edinburgh): “Results from the ZEPLIN-III Experiment“
  • Lea Reichhart (Edinburgh): “ZEPLIN-III direct dark matter search: final results and measurements in support of next generation instruments“
  • Alastair Currie (Imperial): “Direct searches for WIMP dark matter with ZEPLIN-III”
  • Paul Scovell (Edinburgh): “Results from the ZEPLIN-III dark matter search experiment“
  • Emma Barnes (Edinburgh): “Veto for the ZEPLIN-III dark matter detector “
  • Claire Thorne (Imperial): “Characterisation and Calibration of ZEPLIN III – A Dark Matter Detector“
  • Claudio Silva (Coimbra): “Study of the Reflectance Distributions of Fluoropolymers and Other Rough Surfaces with Interest to Scintillation Detectors”
  • Blair Edwards (Imperial College London/Rutherford Appleton Laboratory): “The ZEPLIN Dark Matter Search: Two Phase Xenon as a WIMP Target”
  • David David (Imperial): “Development of a two phase xenon detector for use in direct dark matter searches“
  • Jaime Dawson (Imperial): “ZEPLIN III: A Two-Phase Xenon WIMP Detector”