Speakers
Kaiyuan Shi
(University of Michigan)
Scott Haselschwardt
Description
HydroX is a proposed upgrade to enhance the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment's sensitivity to proton-mass-scale dark matter through the addition of a hydrogen-rich dopant in the detector's liquid xenon target. In this talk we discuss the status of current R&D efforts and preliminary data to establish the feasibility and performance of such an upgrade. We present preliminary measurements made with a methane-doped dual-phase xenon detector at the University of Michigan to quantify the dopant's impact on the primary scintillation (S1) and electroluminescent ionization signal (S2) using gamma-ray, neutron, and alpha particle sources.
Authors
Kaiyuan Shi
(University of Michigan)
Scott Haselschwardt