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Towards a neutrino-limited dark matter search with crystalline xenon
العنوان: | Towards a neutrino-limited dark matter search with crystalline xenon |
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المؤلفون: | Chen, H., Gibbons, R., Haselschwardt, S. J., Kravitz, S., Xia, Q., Sorensen, P. |
سنة النشر: | 2023 |
المجموعة: | Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Experiment |
مصطلحات موضوعية: | High Energy Physics - Experiment, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics |
الوصف: | Experiments searching for weakly interacting massive particle dark matter are now detecting background events from solar neutrino-electron scattering. However, the dominant background in state-of-the-art experiments such as LZ and XENONnT is beta decays from radon contamination. In spite of careful detector material screening, radon progenitor atoms are ubiquitous and long-lived, and radon is extremely soluble in liquid xenon. We propose a change of phase and demonstrate that crystalline xenon offers more than a factor x500 exclusion against radon ingress, compared with the liquid state. This level of radon exclusion would allow crystallized versions of existing experiments to probe spin-independent cross sections near 1e-47 cm2 in roughly 11 years, as opposed to the 35~years required otherwise. |
نوع الوثيقة: | Working Paper |
URL الوصول: | http://arxiv.org/abs/2312.15082 |
رقم الأكسشن: | edsarx.2312.15082 |
قاعدة البيانات: | arXiv |
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