Physics reach of the XENON1T dark matter experiment.

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2016, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Aprile, E ^a   Aalbers, J ^b   Agostini, F ^c,d   Alfonsi, M ^e   Amaro, F D ^f   Anthony, M ^a   Arazi, L ^g   Arneodo, F ^h   Balan, C ^f   Barrow, P ⁱ   Baudis, L ⁱ   Bauermeister, B ^e,j   Berger, T ^k   Breur, P ^b   Breskin, A ^g   Brown, A ^b   Brown, E ^k   Bruenner, S ^l   Bruno, G ^c,m   Budnik, R ^g   Butikofer L ⁿ   Cardoso, J M R ^f   Cervantes, M ^o   Cichon, D ^l   Coderre, D ⁿ   Colijn, A P ^b   Conrad, J ^j   Contreras, H ^a   Cussonneau, J P ^p   Decowski, M P ^b   De Perio, P ^a   Gangi, P Di ^d   Giovanni, A Di ^h   Duchovni, E ^g   Fattori, S ^e   Ferella, A D ^c,j   Fieguth, A ^m   Franco, D ⁱ   Fulgione, W ^c,q   Galloway, M ⁱ   Garbini, M ^d   Geis, C ^e   Goetzke, L W ^a   Greene, Z ^a   Grignon, C ^e   Gross, E ^g   Hampel, W ^l   Hasterok, C ^l   Itay, R ^g   Kaether, F ^l   Kaminsky, B ⁿ   Kessler, G ⁱ   Kish, A ⁱ   Landsman, H ^g   Lang, R F ^o   Lellouch, D ^g   Levinson, L ^g   Calloch, M Le ^p   Levy, C ^k   Lindemann, S ^l   Lindner, M ^l   Lopes, J A M ^f   Lyashenko, A ^r   Macmullin, S ^o   Manfredini, A ^g   Undagoitia, T Marrodán ^l   Masbou, J ^p   Massoli, F V ^d   Mayani, D ⁱ   Fernandez, A J Melgarejo ^a   Meng, Y ^r   Messina, M ^a   Micheneau, K ^p   Miguez, B ^q   Molinario, A ^c   Murra, M ^m   Naganoma, J ^s   Oberlack, U ^e   Orrigo, S E A ^f,t   Pakarha, P ⁱ   Pelssers, B ^j   Persiani, R ^p   Piastra, F ⁱ   Pienaar, J ^o   Plante, G ^a   Priel, N ^g   Rauch, L ^l   Reichard, S ^o   Reuter, C ^o   Rizzo, A ^a   Rosendahl, S ^m   Rupp, N ^l   Santos, J M F Dos ^f   Sartorelli, G ^d   Scheibelhut, M ^e   Schindler, S ^e   Schreiner, J ^l   Schumann, M ⁿ   Lavina, L Scotto ^p   Selvi, M ^d   Shagin, P ^s   Simgen, H ^l   Stein, A ^r   Thers, D ^p   Tiseni, A ^b   Trinchero, G ^q   Tunnell, C ^b   Sivers, M Von ⁿ   Wall, R ^s   Wang, H ^r   Weber, M ^a   Wei, Y ⁱ   Weinheimer, C ^m   Wulf, J ⁱ   Zhang, Y ^a   more..

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c GRAN SASSO SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^e JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^g WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^h NEW YORK UNIVERSITY ABU DHABI   (United Arab Emirates)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^j STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^k Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

^l MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR KERNPHYSIK   (Germany)

^m UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^o PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^p UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

^q SEZIONE DI TORINO   (Italy)

^r UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^s RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^t UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

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Author keywords

dark matter experiments; dark matter simulations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84963800283     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2016/04/027     Document Type: Article

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