First results from the XENON10 dark matter experiment at the gran sasso national laboratory

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Angle, J ^a,b   Aprile, E ^c   Arneodo, F ^d   Baudis, L ^b   Bernstein, A ^e   Bolozdynya, A ^f   Brusov, P ^f   Coelho, L C C ^g   Dahl, C E ^f,h   Deviveiros, L ⁱ   Ferella, A D ^b,d   Fernandes, L M P ^g   Fiorucci, S ⁱ   Gaitskell, R J ⁱ   Giboni, K L ^c   Gomez, R ^j   Hasty, R ^k   Kastens, L ^k   Kwong, J ^f,h   Lopes, J A M ^g   Madden, N ^e   Manalaysay, A ^a,b   Manzur, A ^k   McKinsey, D N ^k   Monzani, M E ^c   Ni, K ^k   Oberlack, U ^j   Orboeck, J ^b   Plante, G ^c   Santorelli, R ^c   Dos Santos, J M F ^g   Shagin, P ^j   Shutt, T ^f   Sorensen, P ⁱ   Schulte, S ^b   Winant, C ^e   Yamashita, M ^c   more..

^a University of Florida ^*  (United States)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^d LABORATORI NAZIONALI DEL GRAN SASSO   (Italy)

^e LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^h PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^k Yale University   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; IONIZATION; RADIATION; SCINTILLATION;

BLIND ANALYSIS; FIDUCIAL MASS; MATTER WEAKLY INTERACTING MASSIVE PARTICLES (WIMP);

XENON;

EID: 38349133970     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.021303     Document Type: Article

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