Importance of upgraded energy reconstruction for direct dark matter searches with liquid xenon detectors
arXiv:1208.5046 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.86.101301
Abstract
The usual nuclear recoil energy reconstruction employed by liquid xenon dark matter search experiments relies only on the primary scintillation photon signal. Energy reconstruction based on both the photon and electron signals yields a more accurate representation of search results. For a dark matter particle mass m~10 GeV, a nuclear recoil from a scattering event is more likely to be observed in the lower left corner of the typical search box, rather than near the nuclear recoil calibration centroid. In this region of the search box, the actual nuclear recoil energies are smaller than the usual energy scale suggests, by about a factor x2. Recent search results from the XENON100 experiment are discussed in light of these considerations.
v2 (published version) addresses all relevant comments from the XENON100 Collaboration (arxiv:1208.5762). ascii files corresponding to Fig4 uploaded to Data Conservancy
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