Speaker
Prof.
Mani Tripathi
(UC Davis)
Description
LUX is a new collaboration which has proposed a 100 Kg (fiducial) Liquid Xenon
two-phase TPC detector for WIMP search. I will describe the detector, present
simulations and comment on the sensitivity that can be achieved. Critical pieces of
the detector are under construction and we will have an engineering run (above
ground) in the Fall of 2007. The full detector, expected to be the most sensitive at
that time, should start operations in an underground lab in mid 2009.
Author
Prof.
Mani Tripathi
(UC Davis)
