The XENON100 dark matter experiment
By E. Aprile, K. Arisaka, F. Arneodo, A. Askin, L. Baudis, A. Behrens, E. Brown, J. Cardoso, B. Choi, D. Cline and 25 more. 2009
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Abstract The XENON100 dark matter experiment uses liquid xenon (LXe) in a time projection chamber (TPC) to search for xenon nuclear recoils resulting from the scattering of dark matter Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs). In this paper we present a detailed description of the detector design and present performance results, as established during the commissioning phase and during the first science runs. The active target of XENON100 contains 62 kg of LXe, surrounded by an LXe veto of 99 kg, both instrumented with photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) operating inside the liquid or in xenon gas. The LXe target and veto are contained in a low-radioactivity stainless steel vessel, embedded in a passive radiation shield and is installed underground at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS), Italy. The experiment has recently published results from a 100 live-days dark matter search. The ultimate design goal of XENON100 is to achieve a spin-independent WIMP-nucleon scattering cross section sensitivity of σ = 2 × 10 −45 cm 2 for a 100 GeV/c 2 WIMP.
Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics
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- XENON100 dark matter results from a combination of 477 live days (2016, methodology): “The varying energy threshold in keVnr due to the new threshold in S1, inside the active volume of the TPC as a function of the radius, R, and depth, Z.”
- Liquid noble gas detectors for low energy particle physics (2012, methodology): “n on purification methods, material selection and techniques for obtaining acceptable purity of the liquid the reader is referred, for example, to [5, 7, 194] and references therein. We can also refer [195, 155, 50, 196, 197] for some gas purification systems. 4.4 Combined signal When detecting either”
- Colloquium: Annual modulation of dark matter (2013, methodology): “Yet CDMS sees no annual modulation (Ahmed et al., 2012), and both CDMS (Ahmed et al., 2010, 2011) and XENON (Angle et al., 2011; Aprile et al., 2012b) find null results that appear to be in conflict with the three experiments that report anomalies.”