Dark Matter Search with liquid Noble Gases
arXiv:1206.2169
Abstract
Dark matter detectors using the liquid noble gases xenon and argon as WIMP targets have evolved rapidly in the last decade and will continue to play a major role in the field. Due to the possibility to scale these detectors to larger masses relatively easily, noble liquids will likely be the first technology realizing a detector with a ton-scale target mass. In this article, we summarize the basic concepts of liquid noble gas dark matter detectors and review the current experimental status.
8 pages, 3 figures; to appear in the Proceedings of the 47th Rencontres de Moriond, 2012, Cosmology Session
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