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Graduate Theses

LUX and LZ

(2022) Will Taylor – “Neutron Calibrations and Activation Signals in Low-Background Liquid
Xenon Dark Matter Detectors”

(2019) Dongqing Huang – “Ultra-Low Energy Calibration of the LUX and LZ Dark Matter Detectors”

LUX

(2016) James Verbus – “An Absolute Calibration of Sub-1 keV Nuclear Recoils in Liquid Xenon Using D-D Neutron Scattering Kinematics in the LUX Detector”

(2014) Jeremy Chapman – “First WIMP Search Results from the LUX Dark Matter Experiment”

(2014) David Malling – “Measurement and Analysis of WIMP Detection Backgrounds, and Characteri- zation and Performance of the Large Underground Xenon Dark Matter Search Experiment”

(2013) Carlos Faham – “Prototype, Surface Commissioning and Photomultiplier Tube Characterization for the Large Underground Xenon (LUX) Direct Dark Matter Search Experiment”

(2010) Luiz de Viveiros – “Optimization of Signal versus Background in Liquid Xe Detectors Used for Dark Matter Direct Detection Experiments”

XENON10

(2008) Peter Sorensen – “A Position-Sensitive Liquid Xenon Time-Projection Chamber for Direct Detection of
Dark Matter: The XENON10 Experiment”

CDMS

(2006) Michael Attisha – “Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS II) – Application of Neural Networks and Wavelets to Event Analysis”

 

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