Characteristics of alpha, gamma and nuclear recoil pulses from NaI(Tl) at 10-100 keV relevant to dark matter searches

Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics

Volumn 452, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 167-172

  Kudryavtsev, V A ^a   Lehner, M J ^a   Peak, C D ^a   Lawson, T B ^a   Lightfoot, P K ^a   McMillan, J E ^a   Roberts, J W ^a   Spooner, N J C ^a   Tovey, D R ^a   Ward, C K ^a   Smith, P F ^b   Smith, N J T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dark matter; Pulse shape discrimination; Radioactive sources; Scintillation detectors; WIMP

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000769215     PISSN: 03702693     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0370-2693(99)00270-1     Document Type: Article

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