An experiment to search for dark-matter interactions using sodium iodide detectors
- Submitting institution
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The University of Sheffield
- Unit of assessment
- 9 - Physics
- Output identifier
- 2126
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1038/s41586-018-0739-1
- Title of journal
- Nature
- Article number
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- First page
- 83
- Volume
- 564
- Issue
- 7734
- ISSN
- 0090-0028
- Open access status
- Not compliant
- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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49
- Research group(s)
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D - Particle Physics and Particle Astrophysics
- Citation count
- 41
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
- Spooner was responsible for key parts of the radioactive background simulations critical to establishing the sensitivity to WIMP dark matter, specifically determination of beta and gamma components. This was achieved using GEANT-4 Monte Carlos and data from radio-purity measurements of detector materials. Analysis of the change in backgrounds due to decay of comsogenically activated isotopes is of core importance as this can potentially mimic the signal key to the result. Additionally, Spooner was co-editor of the paper with senior colleagues and co-founder of COSINE-100 itself with colleagues R. Moryama (Yale) and Y. Kim (IBS).
- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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