First dark matter limits from a large-mass, low-background, superheated droplet detector

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 15, 2000, Pages 3083-3086

  Collar, J I ^a,b   Puibasset, J ^a   Girard, T A ^c   Limagne, D ^a   Miley, H S ^d   Waysand, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

^c CENTRO DE FÍSICA NUCLEAR DA UNIVERSIDADE DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

^d PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; FABRICATION; IONIZING RADIATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; RADIOACTIVITY MEASUREMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

NUCLEAR RECOILS; PARTICLE DARK MATTER; SUPERHEATED DROPLET DETECTOR; SUPERHEATED INSTRUMENT FOR MASSIVE PARTICLE SEARCHES;

PARTICLE DETECTORS;

EID: 0034301039     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.3083     Document Type: Article

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