Title of article :
The XENON100 dark matter experiment
Author/Authors :
Aprile، نويسنده , , E. and Arisaka، نويسنده , , K. and Arneodo، نويسنده , , F. and Askin، نويسنده , , A. and Baudis، نويسنده , , L. and Behrens، نويسنده , , A. and Brown، نويسنده , , E. and Cardoso، نويسنده , , J.M.R. and Choi، نويسنده , , Daren B. H. Cline، نويسنده , , D. and Fattori، نويسنده , , S. and Ferella، نويسنده , , A.D. and Giboni، نويسنده , , K.L. and Kish، نويسنده , , A. and Lam، نويسنده , , C.W. and Lang، نويسنده , , R.F. and Lim، نويسنده , , K.E. and Lopes، نويسنده , , J.A.M. and Marrodلn Undagoitia، نويسنده , , T. and Mei، نويسنده , , Y. and Melgarejo Fernandez، نويسنده , , A.J. and Ni، نويسنده , , K. and Oberlack، نويسنده , , U. and Orrigo، نويسنده , , S.E.A. and Pantic، نويسنده , , E. and Plante، نويسنده , , G. and Ribeiro، نويسنده , , A.C.C. and Santorelli، نويسنده , , R. and dos Santos، نويسنده , , J.M.F. and Schumann، نويسنده , , M. and Shagin، نويسنده , , P. and Teymourian، نويسنده , , A. and Tziaferi، نويسنده , , E. and Wang، نويسنده , , H. Toshihiko Yamashita، نويسنده , , M.، نويسنده ,
Issue Information :
روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2012
Pages :
18
From page :
573
To page :
590
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. tive 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 cm2 for a 100 GeV/c2 WIMP.
Keywords :
Dark matter , direct detection , Xenon , Liquid noble gas detector
Journal title :
Astroparticle Physics
Serial Year :
2012
Journal title :
Astroparticle Physics
Record number :
1336146
Link To Document :
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