@article{b48adcb04e5a4ff79c1a66cef8fef16d,
title = "Effective field theory analysis of the first LUX dark matter search",
abstract = "The Large Underground Xenon (LUX) dark matter search was a 250-kg active mass dual-phase time projection chamber that operated by detecting light and ionization signals from particles incident on a xenon target. In December 2015, LUX reported a minimum 90% upper C.L. of 6×10-46 cm2 on the spin-independent WIMP-nucleon elastic scattering cross section based on a 1.4×104 kg·day exposure in its first science run. Tension between experiments and the absence of a definitive positive detection suggest it would be prudent to search for WIMPs outside the standard spin-independent/spin-dependent paradigm. Recent theoretical work has identified a complete basis of 14 independent effective field theory (EFT) operators to describe WIMP-nucleon interactions. In addition to spin-independent and spin-dependent nuclear responses, these operators can produce novel responses such as angular-momentum-dependent and spin-orbit couplings. Here we report on a search for all 14 of these EFT couplings with data from LUX's first science run. Limits are placed on each coupling as a function of WIMP mass. ",
author = "{(LUX Collaboration)} and Akerib, {D. S.} and S. Alsum and Ara{\'u}jo, {H. M.} and X. Bai and J. Balajthy and A. Baxter and Bernard, {E. P.} and A. Bernstein and Biesiadzinski, {T. P.} and Boulton, {E. M.} and B. Boxer and P. Br{\'a}s and S. Burdin and D. Byram and Carmona-Benitez, {M. C.} and C. Chan and Cutter, {J. E.} and {De Viveiros}, L. and E. Druszkiewicz and A. Fan and S. Fiorucci and Gaitskell, {R. J.} and C. Ghag and Gilchriese, {M. G.D.} and C. Gwilliam and Hall, {C. R.} and Haselschwardt, {S. J.} and Hertel, {S. A.} and Hogan, {D. P.} and M. Horn and Huang, {D. Q.} and Ignarra, {C. M.} and Jacobsen, {R. G.} and O. Jahangir and W. Ji and K. Kamdin and K. Kazkaz and D. Khaitan and Korolkova, {E. V.} and S. Kravitz and Kudryavtsev, {V. A.} and Larsen, {N. A.} and E. Leason and Lenardo, {B. G.} and Lesko, {K. T.} and J. Liao and J. Lin and A. Lindote and Lopes, {M. I.} and A. Manalaysay",
note = "Funding Information: This work was partially supported by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under Award No. DE-AC02-05CH11231, No. DE-AC05-06OR23100, No. DE-AC52-07NA27344, No. DE-FG01-91ER40618, No. DE-FG02-08ER41549, No. DE-FG02-11ER41738, No. DE-FG02-91ER40674, No. DE-FG02-91ER40688, No. DE-SC0010813, No. DE-NA0000979, No. DE-SC0006605, No. DE-SC0010010, No. DE-SC0015535, and No. DE-SC0019066; the U.S. National Science Foundation under Grants No. PHY-0750671, No. PHY-0801536, No. PHY-1003660, No. PHY-1004661, No. PHY-1102470, No. PHY-1312561, No. PHY-1347449, No. PHY-1505868, and No. PHY-1636738; the Research Corporation Grant No. RA0350; the Center for Ultra-low Background Experiments in the Dakotas (CUBED); and the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (SDSMT). Laborat{\'o}rio de Instrumenta{\c c}{\~a}o e F{\'i}sica Experimental de Part{\'i}culas (LIP)-Coimbra acknowledges funding from Funda{\c c}{\~a}o para a Ci{\^e}ncia e a Tecnologia (FCT) through the Project-Grant PTDC/FIS-NUC/1525/2014. Imperial College and Brown University thank the UK Royal Society for travel funds under the International Exchange Scheme (IE120804). The UK groups acknowledge institutional support from Imperial College London, University College London and Edinburgh University, and from the Science & Technology Facilities Council for PhD studentships R504737 (EL), M126369B (NM), P006795 (AN), T93036D (RT) and N50449X (UU). This work was partially enabled by the University College London (UCL) Cosmoparticle Initiative. The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with Registration No. SC005336. This research was conducted using computational resources and services at the Center for Computation and Visualization at Brown University, the Yale Science Research Software Core, and the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, a DOE Office of Science User Facility. We gratefully acknowledge the logistical and technical support and the access to laboratory infrastructure provided to us by SURF and its personnel at Lead, South Dakota. SURF was developed by the South Dakota Science and Technology Authority, with an important philanthropic donation from T. Denny Sanford. SURF is a federally sponsored research facility under Award Number DE-SC0020216. Funding Information: This work was partially supported by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under Award No. DE-AC02-05CH11231, No. DE-AC05-06OR23100, No. DE-AC52-07NA27344, No. DE-FG01-91ER40618, No. DE-FG02-08ER41549, No. DE-FG02-11ER41738, No. DE-FG02-91ER40674, No. DE-FG02-91ER40688, No. DE-SC0010813, No. DE-NA0000979, No. DE-SC0006605, No. DE-SC0010010, No. DE-SC0015535, and No. DE-SC0019066; the U.S. National Science Foundation under Grants No. PHY-0750671, No. PHY-0801536, No. PHY-1003660, No. PHY-1004661, No. PHY-1102470, No. PHY-1312561, No. PHY-1347449, No. PHY-1505868, and No. PHY-1636738; the Research Corporation Grant No. RA0350; the Center for Ultra-low Background Experiments in the Dakotas (CUBED); and the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (SDSMT). Laboratorio de Instrumenta??o e Fisica Experimental de Particulas (LIP)-Coimbra acknowledges funding from Funda??o para a Cieencia e a Tecnologia (FCT) through the Project-Grant PTDC/FIS-NUC/1525/2014. Imperial College and Brown University thank the UK Royal Society for travel funds under the International Exchange Scheme (IE120804). The UK groups acknowledge institutional support from Imperial College London, University College London and Edinburgh University, and from the Science & Technology Facilities Council for PhD studentships R504737 (EL), M126369B (NM), P006795 (AN), T93036D (RT) and N50449X (UU). This work was partially enabled by the University College London (UCL) Cosmoparticle Initiative. The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with Registration No. SC005336. This research was conducted using computational resources and services at the Center for Computation and Visualization at Brown University, the Yale Science Research Software Core, and the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, a DOE Office of Science User Facility. We gratefully acknowledge the logistical and technical support and the access to laboratory infrastructure provided to us by SURF and its personnel at Lead, South Dakota. SURF was developed by the South Dakota Science and Technology Authority, with an important philanthropic donation from T. Denny Sanford. SURF is a federally sponsored research facility under Award Number DE-SC0020216. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021 American Physical Society.",
year = "2021",
month = jun,
day = "15",
doi = "10.1103/PhysRevD.103.122005",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "103",
journal = "Physical Review D",
issn = "2470-0010",
publisher = "American Physical Society",
number = "12",
}