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Material screening and selection for XENON100
Results of the extensive radioactivity screening campaign to identify
materials for the construction of XENON100 are reported. This Dark Matter
search experiment is operated underground at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran
Sasso (LNGS), Italy. Several ultra sensitive High Purity Germanium detectors
(HPGe) have been used for gamma ray spectrometry. Mass spectrometry has been
applied for a few low mass plastic samples. Detailed tables with the
radioactive contaminations of all screened samples are presented, together with
the implications for XENON100.Comment: 8 pages, 1 figur
Beta decay of the Tz=-2 nucleus 64Se and its descendants
International audience; The beta decay of the Tz=-2 nucleus 64Se has been studied in a fragmentation reaction at RIKEN-Nishina Center. 64Se is the heavies Tz=-2 nucleus that decays to bound states in the daughter nucleus and the heaviest case where the mirror reaction 64Zn(3He,t)64Ga on the Tz=+2 64Zn stable target exists and can be compared. Beta-delayed gamma and proton radiation is reported for the 64Se and 64As cases. New levels have been observed in 64As, 64Ge (N=Z), 63Ge and 63Ga. The associated T1/2 values have been obtained
The XENON100 Dark Matter Experiment
The XENON100 dark matter experiment uses liquid xenon (LXe) in a time
projection chamber (TPC) to search for Xe 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 Xe gas. The LXe target and veto are contained in a
low-radioactivity stainless steel vessel, embedded in a passive radiation
shield. The experiment is installed underground at the Laboratori Nazionali del
Gran Sasso (LNGS), Italy and 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
\sigma = 2x10^-45 cm^2 for a 100 GeV/c^2 WIMP.Comment: 23 pages, 27 figures; version accepted by journa
Direct Dark Matter search with XENON100
The XENON100 experiment is the second phase of the XENON program for the direct detection of the dark matter in the universe. The XENON100 detector is a two-phase Time Projection Chamber filled with 161 kg of ultra pure liquid xenon. The results from 224.6 live days of dark matter search with XENON100 are presented. No evidence for dark matter in the form of WIMPs is found, excluding spin-independent WIMP-nucleon scattering cross sections above 2 × 10−45 cm2 for a 55 GeV/c2 WIMP at 90% confidence level (C.L.). The most stringent limit is established on the spin-dependent WIMP-neutron interaction for WIMP masses above 6 GeV/c2, with a minimum cross section of 3.5 × 10−40 cm2 (90% C.L.) for a 45 GeV/c2 WIMP. The same dataset is used to search for axions and axion-like-particles. The best limits to date are set on the axion-electron coupling constant for solar axions, gAe < 7.7 × 10−12 (90% C.L.), and for axion-like-particles, gAe < 1 × 10−12 (90% C.L.) for masses between 5 and 10 keV/c2
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