New Technique for the Measurement of the Scintillation Efficiency of Nuclear Recoils

Abstract

We present a new technique developed for the measurement of the scintillation efficiency of nuclear recoils in solid scintillators. Using this technique we measured the quenching of the scintillation efficiency for the various recoiling nuclei in CaWO4 crystals which are used in direct Dark Matter searches.

Preprint accepted for publication in NIM A

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• Limits on WIMP dark matter using scintillating CaWO4 cryogenic detectors with active background suppression
• Final results of the EDELWEISS-I dark matter search with cryogenic heat-and-ionization Ge detectors

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