| Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1845189 | Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements | 2007 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
Recent progress on the development of a room-temperature, nuclear-recoil-discriminating detector based on Scintillation and Ionization in Gaseous Neon (SIGN) will be discussed. Preliminary studies show that pure neon and neon + X mixtures (X = Ar, Xe, CH4 etc.) at pressure of >=100 atmospheres can be used to detect radiation at low energies with excellent resolution in the range useful for a dark matter search. This also allows for the detection of coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering for neutrino energies greater than ∼10 MeV, thus making a large mass detector sensitive to supernovae and high energy solar neutrinos.
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