Simulations of Events for the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Dark Matter Experiment
Creators: name: ZEPLIN Collaboration
name: Akerib, D. S.
name: Akerlof, C. W.
name: Alqahtani, A.
name: Alsum, S. K.
name: Anderson, T. J.
name: Angelides, N.
name: Araújo, H. M.
name: Armstrong, J. E.
name: Arthurs, M.
name: Bai, X.
name: Balajthy, J.
name: Balashov, S.
name: Bang, J.
name: Bauer, D.
name: Baxter, A.
name: Bensinger, J.
name: Bernard, E. P.
name: Bernstein, A.
name: Bhatti, A.
name: Biekert, A.
name: Biesiadzinski, T. P.
name: Birch, H. J.
name: Boast, K. E.
name: Boxer, B.
name: Brás, P.
name: Buckley, J. H.
name: Bugaev, V. V.
name: Burdin, S.
name: Busenitz, J. K.
name: Cabrita, R.
name: Carels, C.
name: Carlsmith, D. L.
name: Carmona-Benitez, M. C.
name: Cascella, M.
name: Chan, C.
name: Chott, N. I.
name: Cole, A.
name: Cottle, A.
name: Cutter, J. E.
name: Dahl, C. E.
name: de Viveiros, L.
name: Dobson, J. E. Y.
name: Druszkiewicz, E.
name: Edberg, T. K.
name: Eriksen, S. R.
name: Fan, A.
name: Fayer, S.
name: Fiorucci, S.
name: Flaecher, H.
name: Fraser, E. D.
name: Fruth, T.
name: Gaitskell, R. J.
name: Genovesi, J.
name: Ghag, C.
name: Gibson, E.
name: Gilchriese, M. G. D.
name: Gokhale, S.
name: van der Grinten, M. G. D.
name: Hall, C. R.
name: Harrison, A.
name: Haselschwardt, S. J.
name: Hertel, S. A.
name: Hor, J. Y-K.
name: Horn, M.
name: Huang, D. Q.
name: Ignarra, C. M.
name: Jahangir, O.
name: Ji, W.
name: Johnson, J.
name: Kaboth, A. C.
name: Kamaha, A. C.
name: Kamdin, K.
name: Kazkaz, K.
name: Khaitan, D.
name: Khazov, A.
name: Khurana, I.
name: Kocher, C. D.
name: Korley, L.
name: Korolkova, E. V.
name: Kras, J.
name: Kraus, H.
name: Kravitz, S.
name: Kreczko, L.
name: Krikler, B.
name: Kudryavtsev, V. A.
name: Leason, E. A.
name: Lee, J.
name: Leonard, D. S.
name: Lesko, K. T.
name: Levy, C.
name: Li, J.
name: Liao, J.
name: Liao, F. -T.
name: Lin, J.
name: Lindote, A.
name: Linehan, R.
name: Lippincott, W. H.
name: Liu, R.
name: Liu, X.
name: Loniewski, C.
name: Lopes, M. I.
name: Paredes, B. López
name: Lorenzon, W.
name: Luitz, S.
name: Lyle, J. M.
name: Majewski, P. A.
name: Manalaysay, A.
name: Manenti, L.
name: Mannino, R. L.
name: Marangou, N.
name: Marzioni, M. F.
name: McKinsey, D. N.
name: McLaughlin, J.
name: Meng, Y.
name: Miller, E. H.
name: Mizrachi, E.
name: Monte, A.
name: Monzani, M. E.
name: Morad, J. A.
name: Morrison, E.
name: Mount, B. J.
name: Murphy, A. St. J.
name: Naim, D.
name: Naylor, A.
name: Nedlik, C.
name: Nehrkorn, C.
name: Nelson, H. N.
name: Neves, F.
name: Nikoleyczik, J. A.
name: Nilima, A.
name: Olcina, I.
name: Oliver-Mallory, K. C.
name: Pal, S.
name: Palladino, K. J.
name: Palmer, J.
name: Parveen, N.
name: Pease, E. K.
name: Penning, B.
name: Pereira, G.
name: Piepke, A.
name: Pushkin, K.
name: Reichenbacher, J.
name: Rhyne, C. A.
name: Richards, A.
name: Riffard, Q.
name: Rischbieter, G. R. C.
name: Rosero, R.
name: Rossiter, P.
name: Rutherford, G.
name: Santone, D.
name: Sazzad, A. B. M. R.
name: Schnee, R. W.
name: Schubnell, M.
name: Scovell, P. R.
name: Seymour, D.
name: Shaw, S.
name: Shutt, T. A.
name: Silk, J. J.
name: Silva, C.
name: Smith, R.
name: Solmaz, M.
name: Solovov, V. N.
name: Sorensen, P.
name: Stancu, I.
name: Stevens, A.
name: Stifter, K.
name: Sumner, T. J.
name: Swanson, N.
name: Szydagis, M.
name: Tan, M.
name: Taylor, W. C.
name: Taylor, R.
name: Temples, D. J.
name: Terman, P. A.
name: Tiedt, D. R.
name: Timalsina, M.
name: Tomás, A.
name: Tripathi, M.
name: Tronstad, D. R.
name: Turner, W.
name: Tvrznikova, L.
name: Utku, U.
name: Vacheret, A.
name: Vaitkus, A.
name: Wang, J. J.
name: Wang, W.
name: Watson, J. R.
name: Webb, R. C.
name: White, R. G.
name: Whitis, T. J.
name: Wolfs, F. L. H.
name: Woodward, D.
name: Xiang, X.
name: Xu, J.
name: Yeh, M.
name: Zarzhitsky, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The LUX-ZEPLIN dark matter search aims to achieve a sensitivity to the WIMP-nucleon spin-independent cross-section down to (1--2)$\times10^{-12}$\,pb at a WIMP mass of 40 GeV/$c^2$. This paper describes the simulations framework that, along with radioactivity measurements, was used to support this projection, and also to provide mock data for validating reconstruction and analysis software. Of particular note are the event generators, which allow us to model the background radiation, and the detector response physics used in the production of raw signals, which can be converted into digitized waveforms similar to data from the operational detector. Inclusion of the detector response allows us to process simulated data using the same analysis routines as developed to process the experimental data.
description: 24 pages, 19 figures; Corresponding Authors: A. Cottle, V. Kudryavtsev, D. Woodward