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Pis'ma v Zh. Èksper. Teoret. Fiz., 2012 Volume 96, Issue 3, Pages 163–166 (Mi jetpl3189)

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ASTROPHYSICS AND COSMOLOGY

Massive liquid Ar and Xe detectors for direct Dark Matter searches

B. M. Ovtchinnikova, Yu. B. Ovtchinnikovb, V. V. Parusova

a Institute for Nuclear Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
b National Physical Laboratory, Teddington

Abstract: A novel experiment for direct searches of the Dark Matter with liquid argon double-phase chamber with a mass of liquid Ar up to several hundred tons is proposed. To suppress the $\beta$-, $\gamma$- and $n_0$-backgrounds, the comparison of scintillation and ionization signals for every event is suggested. The addition in liquid Ar of photosensitive Ge(CH$_3$)$_4$ or C$_2$H$_4$ and suppression of triplet component of scintillation signals ensures the detection of scintillation signals with high efficiency and provides a complete suppression of the electron background. For the detection of photoelectrons and ionization electrons, highly stable and reliable GEM detectors must be used.

Received: 30.05.2012

Language: English


 English version:
Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics Letters, 2012, 96:3, 149–152

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