Interplay between scintillation and ionization in liquid xenon Dark Matter searches

Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 119-127

  Bezrukov, Fedor ^a,b   Kahlhoefer, Felix ^a,c   Lindner, Manfred ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR KERNPHYSIK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dark Matter search; Liquid xenon; Relative scintillation efficiency; WIMP

Indexed keywords

CROSS SECTION; DARK MATTER SEARCHES; IONIZATION YIELD; LIQUID XENON; NUCLEAR RECOIL; NUCLEAR STOPPING; RECOMBINATION PROCESS; RELATIVE SCINTILLATION EFFICIENCY; SCINTILLATION YIELDS; WIMP;

EFFICIENCY; GALAXIES; IONIZATION OF LIQUIDS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIQUIDS; SCINTILLATION;

XENON;

EID: 79960885148     PISSN: 09276505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.astropartphys.2011.06.008     Document Type: Article

References (49)

1. E. Aprile First Dark Matter Results from the XENON100 Experiment Phys. Rev. Lett. 105 2010 131302 Available from:
2. E. Aprile et al., Dark Matter Results from 100 Live Days of XENON100 Data, Available from: arXiv:1104.2549.
3. R. Bernabei First results from DAMA/LIBRA and the combined results with DAMA/NaI Eur. Phys. J. C56 2008 333 355 1
4. C.E. Aalseth et al., Results from a Search for Light-Mass Dark Matter with a P-type Point Contact Germanium Detector. Available from: arXiv:1002.4703.
5. F. Arneodo Scintillation efficiency of nuclear recoil in liquid xenon Nucl. Instrum. Methods A449 2000 147 157
6. D. Akimov Measurements of scintillation efficiency and pulse-shape for low energy recoils in liquid xenon Phys. Lett. B524 2002 245 251 Available from:
7. E. Aprile Scintillation response of liquid xenon to low energy nuclear recoils Phys. Rev. D72 2005 072006 Available from:
8. V. Chepel Scintillation efficiency of liquid xenon for nuclear recoils with the energy down to 5 keV Astropart. Phys. 26 2006 58 63 (Pubitemid 44291540)
9. E. Aprile Simultaneous measurement of ionization and scintillation from nuclear recoils in liquid xenon as target for a dark matter experiment Phys. Rev. Lett. 97 2006 081302 Available from:
10. P. Sorensen The scintillation and ionization yield of liquid xenon for nuclear recoils Nucl. Instrum. Methods A601 2009 339 346 Available from: arXiv:0807.0459
11. E. Aprile New measurement of the relative scintillation efficiency of xenon nuclear recoils below 10 keV Phys. Rev. C79 2009 045807 Available from: arXiv:0810.0274
12. A. Manzur Scintillation efficiency and ionization yield of liquid xenon for mono-energetic nuclear recoils down to 4 keV Phys. Rev. C81 2010 025808 Available from: arXiv:0909.1063
13. V.N. Lebedenko Results from the first science run of the ZEPLIN-III dark matter search experiment Phys. Rev. D80 2009 052010
14. G. Plante et al., New Measurement of the Scintillation Efficiency of Low-Energy Nuclear Recoils in Liquid Xenon, Available from: .
15. M. Horn et al., Nuclear recoil scintillation and ionisation yields in liquid xenon from ZEPLIN-III data.arXiv:1106.0694.
16. J. Lindhard, and M. Scharff Energy dissipation by ions in keV region Phys. Rev. 124 1 1961 128
17. S. Ovchinnikov, G. Ogurtsov, J. Macek, and Y. Gordeev Dynamics of ionization in atomic collisions Phys. Rep. - Rev. Sect. Phys. Lett. 389 3 2004 119 159 (Pubitemid 37527849)
18. A. Hitachi, T. Doke, and A. Mozumder Luminescence quenching in liquid argon under charged-particle impact - relative scintillation yield at different linear energy transfers Phys. Rev. B 46 18 1992 11463 11470
19. E. Aprile, and T. Doke Liquid xenon detectors for particle physics and astrophysics Rev. Mod. Phys. 82 2010 2053 2097 Available from: arXiv:0910.4956
20. I. Tilinin Quasi-classical expression for inelastic energy-losses in atomic particle collisions below the bohr velocity Phys. Rev. A 51 4 1995 3058 3065
21. J. Valdes, J. Eckardt, G. Lantschner, and N. Arista Energy-loss of slow protons in solids - deviation from the proportionality with projectile velocity Phys. Rev. A 49 2 1994 1083 1088
22. P. Echenique, R. Nieminen, J. Ashley, and R. Ritchie Nonlinear stopping power of an electron-gas for slow ions Phys. Rev. A 33 2 1986 897 904
23. T. Ferrell, and R. Ritchie Energy-losses by slow ions and atoms to electronic excitation in solids Phys. Rev. B 16 1 1977 115 123
24. H. Winter, J. Juaristi, I. Nagy, A. Arnau, and P. Echenique Energy loss of slow ions in a nonuniform electron gas Phys. Rev. B 67 24 2003 245401
25. O. Firsov A qualitative interpretation of the mean electron excitation energy in atomic collisions Sov. Phys. JETP-USSR 9 5 1959 1076 1080
26. D.J. Ficenec, S.P. Ahlen, A.A. Marin, J.A. Musser, and G. Tarle Observation of electronic excitation by extremely slow protons with applications to the detection of supermassive charged particles Phys. Rev. D36 1987 311 314
27. J. Brenot, D. Dhuicq, J. Gauyacq, J. Pommier, V. Sidis, M. Barat, and E. Pollack Collisions between rare-gas atoms at low keV energies - symmetric systems Phys. Rev. A 11 4 1975 1245 1266
28. D. Semrad Coulomb effect and threshold effect in electronic stopping power for slow protons Phys. Rev. A 33 3 1986 1646 1652
29. P. Sigmund Stopping of Heavy Ions - A Theoretical Approach Springer Tracts In Modern Physics vol. 204 2004 Springer-Verlag Berlin pp. 1-5
30. K. Winterbon, P. Sigmund, and J. Sanders Spatial distribution of energy deposited by atomic particles in elastic collisions Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab, Matematisk-Fysiske Meddelelser 37 14 1970 5 61
31. J. Ziegler, J. Biersack, and U. Littmark Stopping and range of ions in solids 1985 Pergamon Press New York
32. J. Lindhard, V. Nielsen, M. Scharff, and P. Thomsen Integral equations governing radiation effects Mat. Fys. Medd. Dan. Vid. Selsk. 33 10 1963 1
33. D.-M. Mei, Z.-B. Yin, L. Stonehill, and A. Hime A model of nuclear recoil scintillation efficiency in noble liquids Astropart. Phys. 30 2008 12 17 Available from: arXiv:0712.2470
34. A. Mangiarotti A survey of energy loss calculations for heavy ions between 1 and 100 keV Nucl. Instrum. Methods A580 2007 114 117 10.1016/j.nima.2007.05.048 arXiv:physics/0610286 (Pubitemid 47331802)
35. C. Dahl, The physics of background discrimination in liquid xenon, and first results from Xenon10 in the hunt for WIMP dark matter, Ph.D. Thesis, Princeton University, 2009.
36. R. Platzman Total ionization in gases by high-energy particles - an appraisal of our understanding Int. J. Appl. Radiat. Isotopes 10 1961 116
37. +-Ar Collisions at 50 KeV Phys. Rev. Lett. 14 1965 627 629
38. + with Xe Phys. Rev. A 14 2 1976 630 637
39. M. Kimura, and N. Lane The low-energy, heavy-particle collisions - a close coupling treatment Adv. Atom. Mol. Opt. Phys. 26 1989 79 160
40. A. Manalaysay, Response of liquid xenon to low-energy ionizing radiation and its use in the XENON10 dark matter search, Ph.D. Thesis, University of Florida, 2009.
41. P. Sorensen, and C.E. Dahl Nuclear recoil energy scale in liquid xenon with application to the direct detection of dark matter Phys. Rev. D 83 2011 063501 Available from: arXiv:1101.6080
42. S. Amoruso Study of electron recombination in liquid argon with the ICARUS TPC Nucl. Instrum. Methods A523 2004 275 286
43. J. Thomas, and D.A. Imel Recombination of electron-ion pairs in liquid argon and liquid xenon Phys. Rev. A 36 1987 614 616
44. J. Angle et al., A search for light dark matter in XENON10 data. Available from: .
45. M. Yamashita Scintillation response of liquid Xe surrounded by PTFE reflector for gamma rays Nucl. Instrum. Methods A535 2004 692 698
46. A. Hitachi Quenching factor and electronic LET in a gas at low energy J. Phys. Conf. Ser. 65 2007 012013
47. A. Hitachi Properties of liquid xenon scintillation for dark matter searches Astropart. Phys. 24 2005 247 256 (Pubitemid 41362585)
48. V. Tretyak Semi-empirical calculation of quenching factors for ions in scintillators Astropart. Phys. 33 2010 40 53 Available from: arXiv:0911.3041
49. P. Sorensen, A coherent understanding of low-energy nuclear recoils in liquid xenon, .