1211.3788 (D. S. Akerib et al.)

The Large Underground Xenon (LUX) Experiment    [PDF]

D. S. Akerib, X. Bai, S. Bedikian, E. Bernard, A. Bernstein, A. Bolozdynya, A. Bradley, D. Byram, S. B. Cahn, C. Camp, M. C. Carmona-Benitez, D. Carr, J. J. Chapman, A. Chiller, C. Chiller, K. Clark, T. Classen, T. Coffey, A. Curioni, E. Dahl, S. Dazeley, L. de Viveiros, A. Dobi, E. Dragowsky, E. Druszkiewicz, B. Edwards, C. H. Faham, S. Fiorucci, R. J. Gaitskell, K. R. Gibson, M. Gilchriese, C. Hall, M. Hanhardt, B. Holbrook, M. Ihm, R. G. Jacobsen, L. Kastens, K. Kazkaz, R. Knoche, S. Kyre, J. Kwong, R. Lander, N. A. Larsen, C. Lee, D. S. Leonard, K. T. Lesko, A. Lindote, M. I. Lopes, A. Lyashenko, D. C. Malling, R. Mannino, Z. Marquez, D. N. McKinsey, D. -M. Mei, J. Mock, M. Moongweluwan, M. Morii, H. Nelson, F. Neves, J. A. Nikkel, M. Pangilinan, P. D. Parker, E. K. Pease, K. Pech, P. Phelps, A. Rodionov, P. Roberts, A. Shei, T. Shutt, C. Silva, W. Skulski, V. N. Solovov, C. J. Sofka, P. Sorensen, J. Spaans, T. Stiegler, D. Stolp, R. Svoboda, M. Sweany, M. Szydagis, D. Taylor, J. Thomson, M. Tripathi, S. Uvarov, J. R. Verbus, N. Walsh, R. Webb, D. White, J. T. White, T. J. Whitis, M. Wlasenko, F. L. H. Wolfs, M. Woods, C. Zhang

The Large Underground Xenon (LUX) collaboration has designed and constructed a dual-phase xenon detector, in order to conduct a search for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles(WIMPs), a leading dark matter candidate. The goal of the LUX detector is to clearly detect (or exclude) WIMPS with a spin independent cross section per nucleon of $2\times 10^{-46}$ cm$^{2}$, equivalent to $\sim$1 event/100 kg/month in the inner 100-kg fiducial volume (FV) of the 370-kg detector. The overall background goals are set to have $<$1 background events characterized as possible WIMPs in the FV in 300 days of running. This paper describes the design and construction of the LUX detector.

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