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2026
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Pushing the Limits of Pulse Shape Discrimination in a Large Liquid Xenon Detector
D. S. Akerib, A. K. Al Musalhi, F. Alder, B. J. Almquist, C. S. Amarasinghe, A. Ames, T. J. Anderson, N. Angelides, H M Araújo, J. E. Armstrong, M. Arthurs, A. Baker, S. Balashov, J. Bang, J. W. Bargemann, E. E. Barillier, K. Beattie, A. Bhatti, T. P. Biesiadzinski, H. J. Birch, E. Bishop, G. M. Blockinger, C. A. J. Brew, P. Brás, S. Burdin, M. C. Carmona-Benitez, M. Carter, A. Chawla, H. Y. Chen, Y. T. Chin, N. I. Chott, S. Contreras, M. V. Converse, R. Coronel, A. C. Cottle, G. A. Cox, D. Curran, C. E. Dahl, I. Darlington, S. Dave, A. David, J. Delgaudio, S. Dey, L. de Viveiros, L. Di Felice, C. Ding, J. E. Y. Dobson, E. Druszkiewicz, S. Dubey, C. L. Dunbar, S. R. Eriksen, N. M. Fearon, N. Fieldhouse, S. Fiorucci, H. Flaecher, E. D. Fraser, T. M. A. Fruth, P. Gaemers, R. J. Gaitskell, A. Geffre, J. Genovesi, C. Ghag, J. Ghamsari, A. Ghosh, S. Ghosh, R. Gibbons, S. Gokhale, J. Green, M. G. D. van der Grinten, J. J. Haiston, C. R. Hall, T. Hall, R. H Hampp, S. J. Haselschwardt, M. A. Hernandez, S. A. Hertel, G. J. Homenides, M. Horn, D. Q. Huang, D. Hunt, E. Jacquet, R. S. James, K. Jenkins, A. C. Kaboth, A. C. Kamaha, M. Kannichankandy, D. Khaitan, A. Y. Khazov, J S Kim, Y. D. Kim, D. Kodroff, E. V. Korolkova, H. Kraus, S. Kravitz, L. Kreczko, V. A. Kudryavtsev, C. Lawes, E. B. Leon, D. S. Leonard, K. T. Lesko, C. Levy, J. Lin, A. Lindote, W. H. Lippincott, J. Long, M.I. Lopes, W. Lorenzon, C. Lu, S. Luitz, W. Ma, V. Mahajan, P. A. Majewski, A. Manalaysay, R. L. Mannino, R. J. Matheson, C. Maupin, M. McCarthy, D. N. McKinsey, J. B. McLaughlin, R. McMonigle, B. Mitra, E. Mizrachi, M. E. Monzani, K. Morå, E. Morrison, B.J. Mount, M. Murdy, A. St. J. Murphy, H. N. Nelson, F. Neves, A. Nguyen, C. L. O'Brien, F. H. O'Shea, I. Olcina, K. C. Oliver-Mallory, J. Orpwood, K. Y. Oyulmaz, K. J. Palladino, N. J. Pannifer, S. J. Patton, Bjoern Penning, G. Pereira, E. Perry, T. Pershing, A. Piepke, S. S. Poudel, Y. Qie, J. Reichenbacher, C. A. Rhyne, Gregory R. C. Rischbieter, E. Ritchey, H. S. Riyat, R. Rosero, N. J. Rowe, T. Rushton, D. Rynders, S. Saltão, D. Santone, A. B. M. R. Sazzad, R. W. Schnee, G. Sehr, B.D. Shafer, S. Shaw, W. Sherman, K. Shi, T. Shutt, C. B. SILVA, G. Sinev, Jacopo Siniscalco, A. M. Slivar, A. M. Softley-Brown, V.N. Solovov, P. Sorensen, J. Soria, T. J. Sumner, A. Swain, M. Szydagis, D. R. Tiedt, D. R. Tovey, J. Tranter, M. Trask, K. Trengove, M. Tripathi, A. Usón, A. C. Vaitkus, O. Valentino, V. Velan, A. Wang, J. P. Wang, Y. L. Wang, L. Weeldreyer, T. J. Whitis, K. Wild, M. R. J. Williams, J. Winnicki, L. Wolf, F. L. H. Wolfs, S. Woodford, D. Woodward, C. J. Wright, Q. Xia, J. Xu, Y. C. Xu, M. Yeh, D. Yeum, J. Young, W. Zha, H. Y. Zhang, T. Zhang, Y. Z. Zhou
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The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment is a direct-detection dark matter experiment, optimized to search for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) through WIMP-nucleon interactions. The main challenge in dark matter detection is differentiating between WIMP signals and background events. In LZ, the ratio of ionization to scintillation signals (charge-to-light) is the primary method for rejecting electronic recoil (ER) background. Pulse shape discrimination (PSD) offers a method for additional ER backgrounds rejection in liquid xenon detectors. In this paper, the discrimination power of PSD with the LZ experiment is discussed. To precisely characterize the scintillation pulse shape, an analysis framework is developed to reconstruct the detection time of individual photons. Using LZ calibration data, the photon-timing prompt fraction discriminator is optimized and achieves ER leakage as low as $15\%$. For specific background processes such as $^{124}$Xe double electron capture, the leakage is reduced further to about $5\%$. PSD is combined with charge-to-light to form two-factor discrimination (TFD). The optimized TFD performance is compared with the performance of the charge-to-light method, with the corresponding false positive rate reduced by up to a factor of two for large scintillation pulses. Finally, PSD and TFD are applied to data from LZ's WS2024 run and their performance is summarized.
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Dark Matter and Cosmic PhenomenaParticle Detector Development and PerformanceNeutrino Physics Research