Carmen Carmona Benitez
Lab: Davey 012 and 019
Mailing Address: The Pennsylvania State University
Department of Physics
Davey Lab 104, PMB 219
University Park, PA 16802
Lab Phone: (814)-867-0089
Education
Ph.D. (Physics), University of Granada, Granada, Spain (2009).
Biography
Assistant Professor, Pennsylvania State University (2017-).
Assistant Project Scientist, University of California, Santa Barbara (2014-2016).
Post-Doctoral Research Associate, University of California, Santa Barbara (2013-2014).
Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Case Western Reserve University (2009-2013).
Honors and Awards
- 2021 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship
Selected Publications
See full always-up-to-date publications list at InspireHEP
- D.S. Akerib et al. (LZ Collaboration), “The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment”, Nucl. Instrum. Meth., A 953, 163047 (2020). [arXiv:1910.09124]
- D.S. Akerib et al. (LUX Collaboration), “First direct detection constraint on mirror dark matter kinetic mixing using LUX 2013 data”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 012003 (2020). [arXiv:1908.03479]
- D.S. Akerib et al. (LZ Collaboration), “Measurement of the Gamma Ray Background in the Davis Cavern at the Sanford Underground Research Facility”, Astroparticle Physics 116, 102391 (2020).
- D.S. Akerib et al. (LZ Collaboration), “Projected WIMP Sensitivity of the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Dark Matter Experiment”, Phys. Rev. D 101, 052002 (2020). [arXiV:1802.06039]
- D.S. Akerib et al. (LUX Collaboration), “Results of a search for sub-GeV dark matter using 2013 LUX data”, Phys. Rev. Lett., 122, 131301 (2019).
- D.S. Akerib et al. (LUX Collaboration), “Calibration, event reconstruction, data analysis and limit calculation for the LUX dark matter experiment”, Phys. Rev. D 97, 102008 (2018). [arXiv:1712.05696]
- D.S. Akerib et al. (LUX Collaboration), “A search for annual and diurnal rate modulations in the LUX experiment”, Phys. Rev. D 98, 062005, (2018).
- D.S. Akerib et al. (LUX Collaboration), “Liquid xenon scintillation measurements and pulse shape discrimination in the LUX dark matter detector”, Phys. Rev. D 97, 112002, (2018).
- D.S. Akerib et al. (LUX Collaboration), “Position Reconstruction in LUX”, JINST 13, no. 02, P02001, (2018).
- D.S. Akerib et al. (LZ Collaboration), “LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Technical Design Report”, (2017). [arXiv:1703.09144]
- D.S. Akerib et al. (LUX Collaboration), “Ultra-Low Energy Calibration of LUX Detector using 127Xe Electron Capture”, Phys. Rev. D 96, 112011, (2017).
- D.S. Akerib et al. (LUX Collaboration), “Limits on spin-dependent WIMP-nucleon cross section obtained from the complete LUX exposure”, Phys. Rev. Lett., 118, 251302, (2017).
- D.S. Akerib et al. (LUX Collaboration), “First Searches for Axions and Axion-Like Particles with the LUX Experiment”, Phys. Rev. Lett., 118, 261301 (2017).
- D.S. Akerib et al. (LUX Collaboration), “Results from a search for dark matter in the complete LUX exposure”, Phys. Rev. Lett., 118, 021303, (2017).
- D.S. Akerib et al. (LUX Collaboration), “Results on the Spin-Dependent Scattering of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles on Nucleons from the Run 3 Data of the LUX Experiment”, Phys. Rev. Lett., 116, 161302, (2016).
- D.S. Akerib et al. (LUX Collaboration), “Improved Limits on Scattering of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles from Reanalysis of 2013 LUX Data”, Phys. Rev. Lett., 116, 161301, (2016).
- D.S. Akerib et al. (LUX Collaboration), “First Results from the LUX Dark Matter Experiment at the Sanford Underground Research Facility”, Phys. Rev. Lett., 112, 091303 (2014).
- D.S. Akerib et al. (LUX Collaboration), “The Large Underground Xenon (LUX) experiment”, Nucl. Instrum. Meth., A704, 111-126, (2013).