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Neutron Beam Tests of Barium Fluoride Crystal for Dark Matter Direct Detection

Instrumentation and Detectors 2016-08-24 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

In order to test the capabilities of Barium Fluoride (BaF2) Crystal for dark matter direct detection, nuclear recoils are studied with mono-energetic neutron beam. The energy spectra of nuclear recoils, quenching factors for elastic scattering neutrons and discrimination capability between neutron inelastic scattering events and {\gamma} events are obtained for various recoil energies of the F content in BaF2.

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@article{arxiv.1607.02813,
  title  = {Neutron Beam Tests of Barium Fluoride Crystal for Dark Matter Direct Detection},
  author = {Cong Guo and Xinhua Ma and Zhimin Wang and Jie Bao and Changjiang Dai and Mengyun Guan and Jinchang Liu and Zuhao Li and Jie Ren and Xichao Ruan and Changgen Yang and Zeyuan Yu and Weili Zhong},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.02813},
  year   = {2016}
}

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15 pages,8 figures