First Measurement of Discrimination between Helium and Electron Recoils in Liquid Xenon for Low-Mass Dark Matter Searches

S. J. Haselschwardt (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720, USA) ; R. Gibbons (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720, USA; University of California, Berkeley, Department of Physics, Berkeley, California 94720-7300, USA) ; H. Chen (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720, USA) ; S. Kravitz (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720, USA) ; A. Manalaysay (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720, USA) ; et al. - Show all 8 authors

We report the first measurement of discrimination between low-energy helium recoils and electron recoils in liquid xenon. This result is relevant to proposed low-mass dark matter searches which seek to dissolve light target nuclei in the active volume of liquid-xenon time projection chambers. Low-energy helium recoils were produced by degrading α particles from Po210 with a gold foil situated on the cathode of a liquid xenon time-projection chamber. The resulting population of helium recoil events is well separated from electron recoils and is also offset from the expected position of xenon nuclear recoil events.

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Published on:
14 March 2024
Publisher:
APS
Published in:
Physical Review Letters , Volume 132 (2024)
Issue 11
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.111801
arXiv:
2308.02430
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Published by the American Physical Society
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CC-BY-4.0

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