The scintillation efficiency of carbon and hydrogen recoils in an organic liquid scintillator for dark matter searches

Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 333-338

  Hong, J ^a   Craig, W W ^a   Graham, P ^a   Hailey, C J ^a   Spooner, N J C ^b   Tovey, D R ^b  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dark matter; Low energy experiment; Nuclear recoil efficiency; Organic liquid scintillator

Indexed keywords

CARBON; ELASTICITY; HYDROGEN; PARTICLE DETECTORS; PHOSPHORS; SCINTILLATION;

DARK MATTER; ELASTIC SCATTERINGS; LOW ENERGY EXPERIMENT; NUCLEAR RECOILD EFFICIENCY; ORGANIC LIQUID SCINTILLATOR;

ASTROPHYSICS;

EID: 0142073531     PISSN: 09276505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0927-6505(01)00114-1     Document Type: Article

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