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Versatile Physics with Liquid Xenon Dark Matter Detectors

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Illuminating Dark Matter

Part of the book series: Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings ((ASSSP,volume 56))

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The much-discussed neutrino floor from atmospheric neutrinos will limit the sensitivity to directly search for WIMP dark matter, but is currently still well beyond our capabilities, namely by three orders of magnitude in rate and two generations in detectors. Liquid xenon-based detectors designed to truly probe WIMPs across this parameter range are sensitive to a wide range of physics channels, ranging from dark matter to neutrino physics and touching particle physics, nuclear physics and astrophysics. This contribution puts the current state of the art into perspective and sketches the science that can be done with current and upcoming liquid xenon detectors.

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  1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Purdue University, 525 Northwestern Av, West Lafayette, IN, 47906, USA

    Rafael F. Lang

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  1. C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA

    Rouven Essig

  2. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA

    Jonathan Feng

  3. Theoretical Physics Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Kathryn Zurek

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Lang, R.F. (2019). Versatile Physics with Liquid Xenon Dark Matter Detectors. In: Essig, R., Feng, J., Zurek, K. (eds) Illuminating Dark Matter. Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings, vol 56. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31593-1_12

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