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Dark matter searches by the Boulby Collaboration and liquid xenon prototype development

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The current status of direct dark matter searches by the Boulby Dark Matter Collaboration is presented with the latest result from the ZePLiN I liquid xenon detector. An upper limit in the interaction cross section per nucleon of ∼1×10−6 pb for a WIMP mass of 100 GeV is found. Details of ZePLiN’s II and III—two future liquid xenon dark matter are presented. Extensive two-phase liquid-gas xenon prototype work has been undertaken and results of characterization studies are presented. The detector response to internal alpha and external gamma and neutron sources is shown. The potential discrimination power of the two-phase technique is displayed. Finally, prospects for the future dark matter search program are discussed.

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From Yadernaya Fizika, Vol. 67, No. 11, 2004, pp. 2053–2061.

Original English Text Copyright © 2004 by Howard.

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Howard, A.S. Dark matter searches by the Boulby Collaboration and liquid xenon prototype development. Phys. Atom. Nuclei 67, 2032–2040 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1825524

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