Design and performance of the XENON10 dark matter experiment

被引：94

作者：

Aprile, E. ^{[1
]}

Angle, J. ^{[2
,3
]}

Arneodo, F. ^{[4
]}

Baudis, L. ^{[2
,3
]}

Bernstein, A. ^{[5
]}

Bolozdynya, A. ^{[6
]}

Brusov, P. ^{[6
]}

Coelho, L. C. C. ^{[7
]}

Dahl, C. E. ^{[6
,8
]}

DeViveiros, L. ^{[9
]}

Ferella, A. D. ^{[4
]}

Fernandes, L. M. P. ^{[7
]}

Fiorucci, S. ^{[9
]}

Gaitskell, R. J. ^{[9
]}

Giboni, K. L. ^{[1
]}

Gomez, R. ^{[10
]}

Hasty, R. ^{[11
]}

Kastens, L. ^{[11
]}

Kwong, J. ^{[6
,8
]}

Lopes, J. A. M. ^{[7
]}

Madden, N. ^{[5
]}

Manalaysay, A. ^{[2
,3
]}

Manzur, A. ^{[11
]}

McKinsey, D. N. ^{[11
]}

Monzani, M. E. ^{[1
]}

Ni, K. ^{[1
]}

Oberlack, U. ^{[10
]}

Orboeck, J. ^{[3
]}

Orlandi, D. ^{[4
]}

Plante, G. ^{[1
]}

Santorelli, R. ^{[1
]}

dos Santos, J. M. F. ^{[7
]}

Shagin, P. ^{[10
]}

Shutt, T. ^{[6
]}

Sorensen, P. ^{[9
]}

Schulte, S. ^{[3
]}

Tatananni, E. ^{[4
]}

Winant, C. ^{[5
]}

Yamashita, M. ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Columbia Univ, Dept Phys, New York, NY 10027 USA

[2] Univ Florida, Dept Phys, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA

[3] Univ Zurich, Inst Phys, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland

[4] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Lab Nazl Gran Sasso, I-67010 Assergi, Italy

[5] Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab, Livermore, CA 94550 USA

[6] Case Western Reserve Univ, Dept Phys, Cleveland, OH 44106 USA

[7] Univ Coimbra, Dept Phys, P-3004516 Coimbra, Portugal

[8] Princeton Univ, Dept Phys, Princeton, NJ 08540 USA

[9] Brown Univ, Dept Phys, Providence, RI 02912 USA

[10] Rice Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, Houston, TX 77251 USA

[11] Yale Univ, Dept Phys, New Haven, CT 06511 USA

来源：

ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS | 2011年 / 34卷 / 09期

基金：

美国国家科学基金会;

关键词：

Dark matter; Direct detection; Liquid xenon; Time projection chamber; LIQUID XENON; NEUTRON-FLUX; DETECTORS; ARGON;

D O I：

10.1016/j.astropartphys.2011.01.006

中图分类号：

P1 [天文学];

学科分类号：

0704 ;

摘要：

XENON10 is the first two-phase xenon time projection chamber (TPC) developed within the XENON dark matter search program. The TPC, with an active liquid xenon (LXe) mass of about 14 kg, was installed at the Gran Sasso Underground Laboratory (LNGS) in Italy, and operated for more than one year, with excellent stability and performance. Results from a dark matter search with XENON10 have been published elsewhere. In this paper, we summarize the design and performance of the detector and its subsystems, based on calibration data using sources of gamma-rays and neutrons as well as background and Monte Carlo simulation data. The results on the detector's energy threshold, position resolution, and overall efficiency show a performance that exceeds design specifications, in view of the very low energy threshold achieved (< 10 keVr) and low background rate achieved. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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页码：679 / 698

页数：20

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