A WIMP Detector with Two-Phase Liquid Xenon

Abstract

We describe the liquid-xenon dark-matter detector program of the UCLA-Torino team. A two-phase detector, ZEPLIN II, for the Boulby Mine is a good match for the current search for WIMP dark matter.

3 pages with 4 figures; for Proceedings, Sixth Int'l Wksp. On Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics, TAUP99 (College de France, Paris, Sept. 6-10, 1999), to be published in Nucl. Phys. B(PS)

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