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Dark matter experiments at the UK Boulby Mine

UK Dark Matter

Collaboration

•

P.F Smith
(
- Rutherford
)

1998

8 pages

Part of Sources and detection of dark matter in the universe. Proceedings, 3rd International Symposium, and Workshop on Primordial Black Holes and Hawking Radiation, Marina del Rey, USA, February 17-20, 1998

Published in:

Phys.Rept. 307 (1998) 275-282

Contribution to:

3rd International Symposium on Sources and Detection of Dark Matter in the Universe (DM 98)

DOI:

10.1016/S0370-1573(98)00049-0

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Abstract: (Elsevier)

The current status is summarised of dark matter searches at the UK Boulby Mine based on pulse shape discrimination in NaI, together with further plans for international collaboration on detectors based on nuclear recoil discrimination in liquid and gaseous xenon.

95.35.+d
talk: Marina del Rey 1998/02/17
dark matter
WIMP: search for
WIMP nucleus: interaction
scintillation counter: sodium-iodide
xenon: liquid
xenon: gas
particle identification: recoil
background

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