Improved dark matter limits from pulse shape discrimination in a low background sodium iodide detector at the Boulby mine

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Feb 1996

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1996phlb..379..299s&link_type=abstract

Physics Letters B, v. 379, p. 299-308.

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90

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We report new limits on nuclear scattering events resulting from Galactic dark matter in the form of hypothetical weakly interacting massive particles. By pulse shape analysis of 6 months' underground data from a 6 kg sodium iodide crystal, over the gamma-equivalent energy range 4-25 keV, we achieve a sensitivity to nuclear recoil events a factor 10-40 below the gamma and beta background. Limits obtained for spin-dependent dark matter interactions improve on Ge detectors by a factor 50. Limits for coherent interactions improve marginally on Ge for masses > 50 GeV, with foreseeable improvements offering further gains of 1-2 orders of magnitude.

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