First limits on nuclear recoil events from the ZEPLIN I galactic dark matter detector

Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 444-462

  Alner, G J ^a   Araujo, H ^b   Arnison, G J ^a   Barton, J C ^d   Bewick, A ^b   Bungau, C ^b   Camanzi, B ^a   Carson, M J ^c   Davidge, D ^b   Dawson, J V ^b   Davies, G J ^b   Davies, J C ^c   Durkin, T ^a   Gamble, T ^c   Hart, S P ^a   Hollingworth, R J ^c   Homer, G J ^a   Howard, A S ^b   Ivaniouchenkov, I ^a,b   Jones, W G ^b   Joshi, M K ^b   Kudryavtsev, V A ^c   Lawson, T B ^c   Lebedenko, V ^b   Lewin, J D ^a   Lightfoot, P K ^c   Liubarsky, I ^b   Lehner, M J ^c,e   Luscher R ^a,b   McMillan, J E ^c   Morgan, B ^c   Nicholls, A ^a   Nicklin, G ^c   Paling, S M ^c   Preece, R M ^a   Roberts, J W ^a,c   Robinson, M ^c   Quenby, J J ^b   Smith, N J T ^a   Smith, P F ^a   Spooner, N J C ^c   Summer, T J ^b   Tovey, D R ^c   more..

^a Chilton   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^d QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dark matter; Liquid xenon; Pulse shape analysis; Scintillation detectors; WIMPs

Indexed keywords

GALAXIES; GAMMA RAYS; NEUTRONS; PARTICLE DETECTORS; SCINTILLATION; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; XENON;

DARK MATTER; LIQUID XENON; PULSE SHAPE ANALYSIS;

ASTROPHYSICS;

EID: 21144443074     PISSN: 09276505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.astropartphys.2005.02.004     Document Type: Article

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