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most citedDevelopment of highly radiopure NaI(Tl) scintillator for PICOLON dark matter search project

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physics.ins-det2025

Background stability and annual modulation test using PICOLON ultra-pure NaI(Tl) detector

PICOLON Collaboration, K. Kotera, D. Chernyak +20

The dark matter observation claimed by the DAMA/LIBRA experiment has been a long-standing puzzle within the particle physics community. NaI(Tl) crystals with radiopurity comparable…

physics.ins-det2023★ 1 cited

Radiopurity of NaI(Tl) crystals for PICOLON dark matter experiment

K. Kotera, D. Chernyak, H. Ejiri +19

The dark matter observation claim by the DAMA/LIBRA collaboration has been a long-standing puzzle within the particle physics community. Efforts of other research groups to verify…

physics.ins-det2021★ 1 cited

Dark matter search with high purity NaI(Tl) scintillator

K. Fushimi, Y. Kanemitsu, K. Kotera +21

A dark matter search project needs and extremely low background radiation detector since the expected event rate of dark matter is less than a few events in one year in one tonne o…

physics.ins-det2021★ 32 cited

Development of highly radiopure NaI(Tl) scintillator for PICOLON dark matter search project

K. Fushimi, Y. Kanemitsu, S. Hirata +20

The highly radiopure NaI(Tl) was developed to search for particle candidates of dark matter. The optimized methods were combined to reduce various radioactive impurities. The $^{40…

physics.ins-det2012

The Performance of the Thin NaI(Tl) Detector Pico-Lon for Dark Matter Search

K. Harada, K. Fushimi, S. Nakayama +9

Thin and large area NaI(Tl) scintillator to search for WIMPs dark matter was developed. The performance of thin and wide area NaI(Tl) showed good enough to search for dark matter.…