LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Conceptual Design Report

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The design and performance of the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) detector is described as of March 2015 in this Conceptual Design Report. LZ is a second-generation dark-matter detector with the potential for unprecedented sensitivity to weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) of masses from a few GeV/c2 to hundreds of TeV/c2. With total liquid xenon mass of about 10 tonnes, LZ will be the most sensitive experiment for WIMPs in this mass region by the end of the decade. This report describes in detail the design of the LZ technical systems. Expected backgrounds are quantified and the performance of the experiment is presented. The LZ detector will be located at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in South Dakota. The organization of the LZ Project and a summary of the expected cost and current schedule are given.

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Authors/Creators:	Collaboration, TLZ Akerib, DS Akerlof, CW Akimov, DY Alsum, SK Araújo, HM Bai, X Bailey, AJ Balajthy, J Balashov, S Barry, MJ Bauer, P Beltrame, P Bernard, EP Bernstein, A Biesiadzinski, TP Boast, KE Bolozdynya, AI Boulton, EM Bramante, R Buckley, JH Bugaev, VV Bunker, R Burdin, S Busenitz, JK Carels, C Carlsmith, DL Carlson, B Carmona-Benitez, MC Cascella, M Chan, C Cherwinka, JJ Chiller, AA Chiller, C Craddock, WW Currie, A Cutter, JE Cunha, JPD Dahl, CE Dasu, S Davison, TJR Viveiros, LD Dobi, A Dobson, JEY Druszkiewicz, E Edberg, TK Edwards, BN Edwards, WR Elnimr, MM Emmet, WT Faham, CH Fiorucci, S Ford, P Francis, VB Fu, C Gaitskell, RJ Gantos, NJ Gehman, VM Gerhard, RM Ghag, C Gilchriese, MGD Gomber, B Hall, CR Harris, A Haselschwardt, SJ Hertel, SA Hoff, MD Holbrook, B Holtom, E Huang, DQ Hurteau, TW Ignarra, CM Jacobsen, RG Ji, W Ji, X Johnson, M Ju, Y Kamdin, K Kazkaz, K Khaitan, D Khazov, A Khromov, AV Konovalov, AM Korolkova, EV Kraus, H Krebs, HJ Kudryavtsev, VA Kumpan, AV Kyre, S Larsen, NA Lee, C Lenardo, BG Lesko, KT Liao, F-T Lin, J Lindote, A Lippincott, WH Liu, J Liu, X Lopes, MI Lorenzon, W Luitz, S Majewski, P Malling, DC Manalaysay, AG Manenti, L Mannino, RL Markley, DJ Martin, TJ Marzioni, MF McKinsey, DN Mei, D-M Meng, Y Miller, EH Mock, J Monzani, ME Morad, JA Murphy, ASJ Nelson, HN Neves, F Nikkel, JA O'Neill, FG O'Dell, J O'Sullivan, K Olevitch, MA Oliver-Mallory, KC Palladino, KJ Pangilinan, M Patton, SJ Pease, EK Piepke, A Powell, S Preece, RM Pushkin, K Ratcliff, BN Reichenbacher, J Reichhart, L Rhyne, C Rodrigues, JP Rose, HJ Rosero, R Saba, JS Sarychev, M Schnee, RW Schubnell, MSG Scovell, PR Shaw, S Shutt, TA Silva, C Skarpaas, K Skulski, W Solovov, VN Sorensen, P Sosnovtsev, VV Stancu, I Stark, MR Stephenson, S Stiegler, TM Sumner, TJ Sundarnath, K Szydagis, M Taylor, DJ Taylor, W Tennyson, BP Terman, PA Thomas, KJ Thomson, JA Tiedt, DR To, WH Tomás, A Tripathi, M Tull, CE Tvrznikova, L Uvarov, S Va'vra, J Grinten, MGDVD Verbus, JR Vuosalo, CO Waldron, WL Wang, L Webb, RC Wei, W-Z While, M White, DT Whitis, TJ Wisniewski, WJ Witherell, MS Wolfs, FLH Woods, E Woodward, D Worm, SD Yeh, M Yin, J Young, SK Zhang, C
Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information:	This manuscript has been authored in part by an author at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231 with the U.S. Department of Energy. The U.S. Government retains, and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges, that the U.S. Government retains a non-exclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, world-wide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for U.S. Government purposes.
Keywords:	physics.ins-det; physics.ins-det; astro-ph.IM; hep-ex
Dates:	Published: 2015
Institution:	The University of Sheffield
Academic Units:	The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Science (Sheffield) > Department of Physics and Astronomy (Sheffield)
Depositing User:	Symplectic Sheffield
Date Deposited:	12 Apr 2017 13:22
Last Modified:	12 Apr 2017 13:23
Status:	Published
Publisher:	U.S. Department of Energy
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