SEARCH FOR EXOTIC NUCLEAR TRANSITION BY USING THE LARGE-VOLUME NAI DETECTOR OF ELEGANTS-V

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FUSHIMI, K [1 ]
EJIRI, H [1 ]
HAZAMA, R [1 ]
KUDOMI, N [1 ]
NAGATA, K [1 ]
OHSUMI, H [1 ]
OKADA, K [1 ]
TANAKA, J [1 ]
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[1] OSAKA UNIV, DEPT PHYS, TOYONAKA, OSAKA 560, JAPAN
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10.1016/0920-5632(94)90290-9
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O412 [相对论、场论]; O572.2 [粒子物理学];
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The authors studied elastic and inelastic scattering of dark matter with nuclei in huge NaI(Tl) scintillator. The light output response f was measured by fast neutron scattering. The result was f(I) = 0.05 +/- 0.02 for I recoil and f(Nalpha) = 0.4 +/- 0.2 for Na recoil. The low noise (congruent-to 5keV) and low BG (congruent-to 8counts/day/keV/kg) was achieved by huge (36.5kg/module) NaI(Tl) scintillator. Strong limit for inelastic excitation of I-127 nuclei was studied and strong limit on the local halo density of spin coupled dark matter candidate was derived.
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