Publications and Talks

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

The Davis Xenon R&D Testbed System (DAX)

• Slides: Characterization of Pb-206 Nuclear Recoils in Liquid Xenon, Light Detection in Noble Elements (LIDINE 2017), SLAC, September 23, 2017.
  Link to 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. http://meetings.aps.org/link/BAPS.2016.APR.E16.8.
• Cutter, et al. 2018. Development of a Tagged Source of Pb-206 Nuclei. Journal of Instrumentation, 13. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-0221/13/02/C02017.
• 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

Noble Element Simulation Technique (NEST)

• 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. 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. 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