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LUX

(Large Underground Xenon experiment)
(experiment to identify WIMPs with a tank of xenon)

LUX (for Large Underground Xenon experiment) was a dark matter detector aiming to detect WIMPs through their interaction with Xenon, located at Stanford University, operating from 2009 to 2016. It consisted of 360 kg of Xenon in the view of over a hundred photomultiplier tubes. It had no clear WIMP detections, but its results ruled out some low-mass possibilities. Further efforts combined with the ZEPLIN effort, the combination termed LUX-ZEPLIN.


(dark matter,survey)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Underground_Xenon_experiment
https://sites.brown.edu/luxdarkmatter/
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010AIPC.1200..977F/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013NIMPA.704..111A/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013JPhCS.460a2005F/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014PhRvL.112i1303A/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2017PhRvL.118b1303A/abstract

Referenced by pages:
dark matter detector
ZEPLIN

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