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PandaX: a liquid xenon dark matter experiment at CJPL

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PandaX is a large liquid-xenon detector experiment usable for direct dark-matter detection and 136Xe double-beta decay search. The central vessel was designed to accommodate a staged target volume increase from initially 120 kg (stage I) to 0.5 t (stage II) and eventually to a multi-ton scale. The experiment is located in the Jinping Deep-Underground Laboratory in Sichuan, China. The detector operates in dual-phase mode, allowing detection of both prompt scintillation, and ionization charge through proportional scintillation. In this paper a detailed description of the stage I detector design and performance as well as results established during the commissioning phase are presented.

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  1. The Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics, Astronomy and Cosmology (INPAC) and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China

    Xun Chen, XiangYi Cui, ChangBo Fu, Karl L. Giboni, HaoWei Gong, GuoDong Guo, Ming He, Jie Hu, XiangDong Ji, ShaoLi Li, Qing Lin, JiangLai Liu, Xiang Liu, KaiXuan Ni, Kirill Pushkin, YuJie Shi, XuMing Wang, YueHuan Wei, MengJiao Xiao, Xiang Xiao, PengWei Xie, Tao Ye, Tao Zhang, HaiYing Zhao & Li Zhao

  2. School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China

    YongLin Ju, HuaXuan Liu, Zhou Wang & Hua Zhang

  3. School of Physics and Key Laboratory of Particle Physics and Particle Irradiation (MOE), Shandong University, Jinan, 250100, China

    XingTao Huang, XiangXiang Ren & Meng Wang

  4. Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Shanghai, 201800, China

    XiGuang Cao, DeQing Fang, YuGang Ma & HongWei Wang

  5. Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA

    Wolfgang Lorenzon, Kirill Pushkin, Michael Schubnell, Scott Stephenson & Greg Tarlé

  6. School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing, 100080, China

    XiangDong Ji, YaJun Mao & XiaoPeng Zhou

  7. Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742, USA

    XiangDong Ji & AnDi Tan

  8. Yalong River Hydropower Development Company, Ltd., Chengdu, 610051, China

    YunHua Chen, ManBing Shen, JiMing Wang, ShiYong Wu, YingHui You, XiongHui Zen & ZhongHua Zhu

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Cao, X., Chen, X., Chen, Y. et al. PandaX: a liquid xenon dark matter experiment at CJPL. Sci. China Phys. Mech. Astron. 57, 1476–1494 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11433-014-5521-2

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