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The XENON100 Detector

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics 2012-06-29 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment Instrumentation and Detectors

Abstract

XENON100 is a liquid xenon (LXe) time projection chamber built to search for rare collisions of hypothetical, weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs). Operated in a low-background shield at the Gran Sasso underground laboratory in Italy, XENON100 has reached the unprecedented background level of <<0.15 events/day/\kevr in the energy range below 100 \kevr in 30 kg of target mass, before electronic/nuclear recoil discrimination. It found no evidence for WIMPs during a dark matter run lasting for 100.9 live days in 2010, excluding with 90% confidence scalar WIMP-nucleon cross sections above 7x1045^{-45} cm2^{2} at a WIMP mass of 50 GeV/c2^{2}. A new run started in March 2011, and more than 200 live days of WIMP-search data have been acquired. Results of this second run are expected to be released in summer 2012.

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@article{arxiv.1206.6576,
  title  = {The XENON100 Detector},
  author = {P. R. Scovell and XENON100 Collaboration},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1206.6576},
  year   = {2012}
}

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