Liquid xenon as a dark matter detector: Prospects for nuclear recoil discrimination by photon timing
1994
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- Phys.Lett.B 320 (1994) 395-399
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Two mechanisms lead to liquid xenon scintillatlon, and are excited differently by incident electrons and by heavy charged nuclei. This could be used to discriminate nuclear recoil events from radioactive background in a search for hypothetical Galactic dark matter particles. To achieve low energy threshold a likelihood analysis is proposed using the time intervals between detected photons. Results are presented of Monte Carlo simulations, showing the background rejection achievable as a function of the number of detected photons. Some comments are included on background discrimination by simultaneous measurement of scintillation and ionization signals.- dark matter
- scintillation counter
- xenon: liquid
- electron: energy loss
- nucleus: recoil
- nucleus: energy loss
- radioactivity: background
- radiation: yield
- time dependence
- ionization
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