An Xe detector for WIMP search

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 49 II, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 1238-1242

  Cline, D B ^a   Seo, Y ^a   Sergiampietri, F ^a   Wang, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dark matter; SUSY; WIMPs; Xe

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAMMA RAYS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; REFLECTION; REFRACTION; SCINTILLATION; XENON;

DARK MATTER PARTICLE IDENTIFICATION; SCINTILLATION DETECTION EFFICIENCY; XENON DETECTOR;

PARTICLE DETECTORS;

EID: 0036624582     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2002.1039644     Document Type: Article

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