Dark matter and neutrino detection with liquid xenon

Jun Park; Muzaffer Atac; David B. Cline; Huijuan Wang; P. F. Smith

doi:10.1117/12.185811

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7 September 1994 Dark matter and neutrino detection with liquid xenon

Jun Park; Muzaffer Atac; David B. Cline; Huijuan Wang; P. F. Smith

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Proceedings Volume 2281, Scintillating Fiber Technology and Applications II; (1994) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.185811
Event: SPIE's 1994 International Symposium on Optics, Imaging, and Instrumentation, 1994, San Diego, CA, United States

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This paper describes for construction a prototype version of a new type of liquid xenon detector, specifically capable of distinguishing low energy (keV-range) nuclear recoil events from background events. Such a detector would be ideally suited to the detection of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPS) which may constitute a significant part of the galactic dark matter. The same principle could be used also for the coherent detection of neutrinos from a supernova burst.

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Jun Park, Muzaffer Atac, David B. Cline, Huijuan Wang, and P. F. Smith "Dark matter and neutrino detection with liquid xenon", Proc. SPIE 2281, Scintillating Fiber Technology and Applications II, (7 September 1994); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.185811

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