Experimental High Energy Physics Research: Direct Detection of Dark Matter

Witherell, Michael S.

关键词: Dark Matter;   

DOI  :  10.2172/1158940
RP-ID  :  None
PID  :  OSTI ID: 1158940

学科分类：物理（综合）

美国|英语

来源: SciTech Connect

【 摘 要 】

The grant supported research on an experimental search for evidence of dark matter interactions with normal matter. The PI carried out the research as a member of the LUX and LZ collaborations. The LUX research team collected a first data set with the LUX experiment, a large liquid xenon detector installed in the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF). The first results were published in Physical Review Letters on March 4, 2014. The journal Nature named the LUX result a scientific highlight of the year for 2013. In addition, the LZ collaboration submitted the full proposal for the Lux Zeplin experiment, which has since been approved by DOE-HEP as a second-generation dark matter experiment. Witherell is the Level 2 manager for the Outer Detector System on the LUX-Zeplin experiment.