A Global Analysis of Light and Charge Yields in Liquid Xenon

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 3387-3396

  Lenardo, Brian ^a,b   Kazkaz, Kareem ^b   Manalaysay, Aaron ^a   Mock, Jeremy ^c   Szydagis, Matthew ^c   Tripathi, Mani ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Dark matter search; energy scale; gamma ray apparatus; gamma ray detection; gas scintillation; ionization chambers; liquid rare gases; liquid scintillation; liquid xenon; Markov chain; Monte Carlo; neutrino detection; particle calorimetry; radiation detectors; scintillation counters; simulation; yield estimation

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; COST FUNCTIONS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; MARKOV PROCESSES; SIMULATED ANNEALING;

CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONSTRAINED PARAMETERS; DARK MATTER PARTICLES; DIRECT DETECTION; FREE PARAMETERS; MARKOV CHAIN MONTE-CARLO; SIMULATED ANNEALING ALGORITHMS; SPLINE FUNCTIONS;

LIQUIDS;

EID: 84946763762     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2015.2481322     Document Type: Conference Paper

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