Technical Results from the Surface Run of the LUX Dark Matter Experiment
@article{Akerib2012TechnicalRF, title={Technical Results from the Surface Run of the LUX Dark Matter Experiment}, author={Lux Collaboration D.S. Akerib and Xue Bai and E P Bernard and Adam Bernstein and A. W. Bradley and Dana Byram and Sydney B. Cahn and M. C. Carmona-Benitez and J. J. Chapman and Tyler Coffey and Attila Dobi and E. Dragowsky and Eryk Druszkiewicz and B. N. V. Edwards and Carlos Faham and S. Fiorucci and R. J. Gaitskell and K. R. Gibson and Murdock G. D. Gilchriese and Christopher Hall and M. Hanhardt and M. O. Ihm and Robert G Jacobsen and L. W. Kastens and Kareem Kazkaz and Richard Knoche and Nicole A. Larsen and C. Lee and Kevin T. Lesko and A Lindote and M. I. Lopes and Alexey V. Lyashenko and D. C. Malling and Rachel Mannino and D. N. Mckinsey and Dongming Mei and J.Mock and Mongkol Moongweluwan and Masahiro Morii and Harry Norman Nelson and Fernando A. Das Neves and J. A. Nikkel and Monica Pangilinan and K. H. Pech and Patrick R. Phelps and A. Rodionov and Thomas Alan Shutt and C. Silva and Wojtek Skulski and V. N. Solovov and Peter F. Sorensen and T. Stiegler and Melinda Sweany and Matthew Szydagis and D. J. Taylor and M. Tripathi and Sergey Uvarov and James Verbus and Luiz de Viveiros and Nicholas Walsh and R.Webb and J. T. White and Michał Własenko and F. L. H. Wolfs and M. Woods and C. Zhang}, journal={Astroparticle Physics}, year={2012}, volume={45}, pages={34-43} }
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