Patents and Publications

Here are some patents I've contributed to, academic papers I have co-authored, and talks I have presented on physics topics. These are organized by experiment/topic, but feel free to follow the links to learn more about AI, the world of dark matter detection, and noble element physics!

AI Patents

• Seagraves et al. End-to-end automatic speech recognition with transformer. U.S. Patent No. 12,380,880 В2. Patent Filed 2023-04-03, Granted 2025-08-05. Google Patents.

PhD Dissertation

• Cutter, Jacob Edward. 2020. Characterizing the Peripheral Dynamics of Xenon Dark Matter Detectors. Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Physics, University of California, Davis. Read the full dissertation (PDF, 233 pages, 38 MB).

The Davis Xenon R&D Testbed System (DAX)

• Cutter, et al. 2018. Development of a Tagged Source of Pb-206 Nuclei. Journal of Instrumentation, 13. IOP Science Link. Direct Paper Link.
• Godfrey, et al. 2017. On the Evaluation of Silicon Photomultipliers for Use as Photosensors in Liquid Xenon Detectors. Journal of Instrumentation 13, C03041. arXiv:1706.05371
• Slides: Characterization of Pb-206 Nuclear Recoils in Liquid Xenon, LIDINE 2017, SLAC, September 23, 2017. Slides on Indico.
• Slides: Characterization of Pb-206 Nuclear Recoils in Liquid Xenon, NSSC Workshop, LBNL, September 11, 2017.
• Slides: DAX: A Versatile Testbed for Xenon Detector R&D, APS April Meeting 2016, Volume 61, Number 6, Salt Lake City, Utah, April 16, 2016. APS Slides.

Noble Element Simulation Technique (NEST)

• Szydagis, et al. 2024. A Review of NEST Models for Liquid Xenon and Exhaustive Comparison to Other Approaches. Front. Detect. Sci. Technol. Sec. Detector Physics, 2. arXiv:2211.10726
• Slides: The Noble Element Simulation Technique v2, Northern California High Energy Physics Exchange Meeting, Menlo Park, December 2, 2017.
• Slides: The Noble Element Simulation Technique v2, New Technologies for Discovery III: The 2017 CPAD Instrumentation Frontier Workshop, University of New Mexico, October 13, 2017. Link to slides on the NEST website.

The LUX-ZEPLIN Dark Matter Experiment (LZ)

• Akerib, et al. 2026. Low-Energy Radon Backgrounds from Electrode Grids in Dual-Phase Xenon TPCs. arXiv:2602.21177
• Aalbers, et al. 2023. First Dark Matter Search Results from the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Experiment. Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 041002. arXiv:2207.03764
• Aalbers, et al. 2023. A Next-Generation Liquid Xenon Observatory for Dark Matter and Neutrino Physics. J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys. 50, 013001. arXiv:2203.02309
• Akerib, et al. 2020. Simulations of Events for the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Dark Matter Experiment. arXiv:2001.09363v1
• Akerib, et al. 2019. Projected sensitivity of the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment to the 0$\nu\beta\beta$ decay of $^{136}Xe$. arXiv:1912.04248
• Akerib, et al. 2019. The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Experiment. arXiv:1910.09124
• Akerib, et al. 2018. Projected WIMP sensitivity of the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) dark matter experiment. arXiv:1802.06039
• Akerib, et al. 2017. LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Technical Design Report. LBNL-1007256. arXiv:1703.09144
• Akerib, et al. 2015. LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Conceptual Design Report. LBNL-190005. arXiv:1509.02910

The Large Underground Xenon Experiment (LUX)

• Akerib, et al. 2025. Nuclear Recoil Calibration at Sub-keV Energies in LUX and Its Impact on Dark Matter Search Sensitivity. Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 061002. arXiv:2210.05859
• Akerib, et al. 2022. Fast and Flexible Analysis of Direct Dark Matter Search Data with Machine Learning. Phys. Rev. D 106, 072009. arXiv:2201.05734
• Akerib, et al. 2019. First direct detection constraint on mirror dark matter kinetic mixing using LUX 2013 data. arXiv:1908.03479
• Akerib, et al. 2019. Search for two neutrino double electron capture of $^{124}Xe$ and $^{126}Xe$ in the full exposure of the LUX detector. arXiv:1912.02742
• Akerib, et al. 2019. Improved Modeling of $\beta$ Electronic Recoils in Liquid Xenon Using LUX Calibration Data. arXiv:1910.04211
• Akerib, et al. 2019. Extending light WIMP searches to single scintillation photons in LUX. arXiv:1907.06272
• Akerib, et al. 2019. Measurement of the Gamma Ray Background in the Davis Cavern at the Sanford Underground Research Facility. arXiv:1904.02112
• Akerib, et al. 2019. Improved Measurements of the $\beta$-Decay Response of Liquid Xenon with the LUX Detector. Phys. Rev. D 100, 022002. arXiv:1903.12372
• Akerib, et al. 2019. Results of a Search for Sub-GeV Dark Matter Using 2013 LUX Data. Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 131301. arXiv:1811.11241
• Akerib, et al. 2018. Search for annual and diurnal rate modulations in the LUX experiment. Phys. Rev. D 98, 062005. arXiv:1807.07113
• Akerib, et al. 2018. LUX Trigger Efficiency. arXiv:1802.07784
• Akerib, et al. 2018. Liquid xenon scintillation measurements and pulse shape discrimination in the LUX dark matter detector. Phys. Rev. D 97, 112002. arXiv:1802.06162
• Akerib, et al. 2017. Calibration, event reconstruction, data analysis and limits calculation for the LUX dark matter experiment. Phys. Rev. D 97, 102008. arXiv:1712.05696
• Akerib, et al. 2017. Position Reconstruction in LUX. Journal of Instrumentation 13, P02001. arXiv:1710.02752
• Akerib, et al. 2017. Ultralow energy calibration of LUX detector using $^{127}$Xe electron capture. Phys. Rev. D 96, 112011. arXiv:1709.00800
• Akerib, et al. 2017. 3D Modeling of Electric Fields in the LUX Detector. Journal of Instrumentation 12, no. 11, P11022 arXiv:1709.00095
• Akerib, et al. 2017. $^{83m}$Kr calibration of the 2013 LUX dark matter search. Phys. Rev. D. 96, 112009. arXiv:1708.02566
• Akerib, et al. 2017. Limits on Spin-Dependent WIMP-Nucleon Cross Section Obtained from the Complete LUX Exposure. Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 251302. arXiv:1705.03380
• Akerib, et al. 2017. First Searches for Axions and Axionlike Particles with the LUX Experiment. Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 261301. arXiv:1704.02297
• Akerib, et al. 2017. Signal yields, energy resolution, and recombination fluctuations in liquid xenon. Phys. Rev. D. 95, 012008. arXiv:1610.02076
• Akerib, et al. 2017. Results from a Search for Dark Matter in the Complete LUX Exposure. Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 021303. arXiv:1608.07648
• Akerib, et al. 2016. Low-energy (0.7-74 keV) nuclear recoil calibration of the LUX dark matter experiment using D-D neutron scattering kinematics. arXiv:1608.05381
• Akerib, et al. 2016. Chromatographic separation of radioactive noble gases from xenon. arXiv:1605.03844
• Akerib, et al. 2016. Results on the Spin-Dependent Scattering of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles on Nucleons from the Run 3 Data of the LUX Experiment. Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 161302. arXiv:1602.03489
• Akerib, et al. 2016. Improved Limits on Scattering of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles from Reanalysis of 2013 LUX Data. Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 161301. arXiv:1512.03506
• Akerib, et al. 2016. Tritium calibration of the LUX dark matter experiment. Phys. Rev. D. 93, 072009. arXiv:1512.03133
• Akerib, et al. 2015. FPGA-based Trigger System for the LUX Dark Matter Experiment. arXiv:1511.03541