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Target Studies for Surface Muon Production
F. Berg, L. Desorgher, A. Fuchs +8
Meson factories are powerful drivers of diverse physics programmes. With beam powers already in the MW-regime attention has to be turned to target and beam line design to further s…
Measurement and simulation of the muon-induced neutron yield in lead
L. Reichhart, A. Lindote, D. Yu. Akimov +36
A measurement is presented of the neutron production rate in lead by high energy cosmic-ray muons at a depth of 2850 m water equivalent (w.e.) and a mean muon energy of 260 GeV. Th…
Position Reconstruction in a Dual Phase Xenon Scintillation Detector
V. N. Solovov, V. A. Belov, D. Yu. Akimov +33
We studied the application of statistical reconstruction algorithms, namely maximum likelihood and least squares methods, to the problem of event reconstruction in a dual phase liq…
Performance data from the ZEPLIN-III second science run
P. Majewski, V. N. Solovov, D. Yu. Akimov +32
ZEPLIN-III is a two-phase xenon direct dark matter experiment located at the Boulby Mine (UK). After its first science run in 2008 it was upgraded with: an array of low background…
Quenching Factor for Low Energy Nuclear Recoils in a Plastic Scintillator
L. Reichhart, D. Yu. Akimov, H. M. Araujo +34
Plastic scintillators are widely used in industry, medicine and scientific research, including nuclear and particle physics. Although one of their most common applications is in ne…
Single electron emission in two-phase xenon with application to the detection of coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering
E. Santos, B. Edwards, V. Chepel +34
We present an experimental study of single electron emission in ZEPLIN-III, a two-phase xenon experiment built to search for dark matter WIMPs, and discuss applications enabled by…
WIMP-nucleon cross-section results from the second science run of ZEPLIN-III
D. Yu. Akimov, H. M. Araujo, E. J. Barnes +34
We report experimental upper limits on WIMP-nucleon elastic scattering cross sections from the second science run of ZEPLIN-III at the Boulby Underground Laboratory. A raw fiducial…
ZE3RA: The ZEPLIN-III Reduction and Analysis Package
F. Neves, D. Yu. Akimov, H. M. Araújo +34
ZE3RA is the software package responsible for processing the raw data from the ZEPLIN-III dark matter experiment and its reduction into a set of parameters used in all subsequent a…
Nuclear recoil scintillation and ionisation yields in liquid xenon from ZEPLIN-III data
M. Horn, V. A. Belov, D. Yu. Akimov +33
Scintillation and ionisation yields for nuclear recoils in liquid xenon above 10 keVnr (nuclear recoil energy) are deduced from data acquired using broadband Am-Be neutron sources.…
Radioactivity Backgrounds in ZEPLIN-III
H. M. Araujo, D. Yu. Akimov, E. J. Barnes +32
We examine electron and nuclear recoil backgrounds from radioactivity in the ZEPLIN-III dark matter experiment at Boulby. The rate of low-energy electron recoils in the liquid xeno…
The ZEPLIN-III Anti-Coincidence Veto Detector
D. Yu. Akimov, H. M. Araujo, E. J. Barnes +34
The design, optimisation and construction of an anti-coincidence veto detector to complement the ZEPLIN-III direct dark matter search instrument is described. One tonne of plastic…
Limits on inelastic dark matter from ZEPLIN-III
D. Yu. Akimov, H. M. Araujo, E. J. Barnes +43
We present limits on the WIMP-nucleon cross section for inelastic dark matter derived from the 2008 run of ZEPLIN-III. Cuts, notably on scintillation pulse shape and scintillation-…
Calibration of Photomultiplier Arrays
F. Neves, V. Chepel, D. Yu. Akimov +31
A method is described that allows calibration and assessment of the linearity of response of an array of photomultiplier tubes. The method does not require knowledge of the photomu…
Measurements of muon flux at 1070 metres vertical depth in the Boulby underground laboratory
M. Robinson, V. A. Kudryavtsev, R. Luscher +5
Measurements of cosmic-ray muon rates and energy deposition spectra in a one tonne liquid scintillator detector at 1070 metres vertical depth in the Boulby underground laboratory a…
Dark Matter at Boulby Mine
R. Luscher
The Boulby Dark Matter Collaboration (BDMC) is running a WIMP Dark Matter research programme in the underground laboratory of Boulby Mine. The two axes of the programme are based o…
The NAIAD experiment for WIMP searches at Boulby mine and recent results
B. Ahmed, G. J. Alner, H. Araujo +32
The NAIAD experiment (NaI Advanced Detector) for WIMP dark matter searches at Boulby mine (UK) is described. The detector consists of an array of encapsulated and unencapsulated Na…
Neutron background at Boulby mine
V. A. Kudryavtsev, P. K. Lightfoot, J. E. McMillan +7
The neutron background at the underground laboratory at Boulby - a site for several dark matter experiments - is discussed. Special emphasis is put on the neutron background produc…
Study and suppression of anomalous fast events in inorganic scintillators for dark matter searches
V. A. Kudryavtsev, N. J. C. Spooner, P. K. Lightfoot +34
The status of dark matter searches with inorganic scintillator detectors at Boulby mine is reviewed and the results of tests with a CsI(Tl) crystal are presented. The objectives of…
Measurements of Scintillation Efficiency and Pulse-Shape for Low Energy Recoils in Liquid Xenon
D. Akimov, A. Bewick, D. Davidge +19
Results of observations of low energy nuclear and electron recoil events in liquid xenon scintillator detectors are given. The relative scintillation efficiency for nuclear recoils…
CsI(Tl) for WIMP dark matter searches
V. A. Kudryavtsev, N. J. C. Spooner, D. R. Tovey +8
We report a study of CsI(Tl) scintillator to assess its applicability in experiments to search for dark matter particles. Measurements of the mean scintillation pulse shapes due to…