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Discrimination of electronic recoils from nuclear recoils in two-phase xenon time projection chambers

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arxiv 2004.06304 v3 pith:ABCFCCZ7 submitted 2020-04-14 physics.ins-det hep-exnucl-ex

Discrimination of electronic recoils from nuclear recoils in two-phase xenon time projection chambers

LUX Collaboration: D. S. Akerib , S. Alsum , H. M. Ara\'ujo , X. Bai , J. Balajthy , A. Baxter , E. P. Bernard , A. Bernstein
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T. P. Biesiadzinski E.M. Boulton B. Boxer P. Br\'as S. Burdin D. Byram M. C. Carmona-Benitez C. Chan J. E. Cutter L. de Viveiros E. Druszkiewicz A. Fan S. Fiorucci R. J. Gaitskell C. Ghag M. G. D. Gilchriese C. Gwilliam C. R. Hall S. J. Haselschwardt S. A. Hertel D. P. Hogan M. Horn D. Q. Huang C. M. Ignarra R. G. Jacobsen O. Jahangir W. Ji K. Kamdin K. Kazkaz D. Khaitan E. V. Korolkova S. Kravitz V. A. Kudryavtsev E. Leason B. G. Lenardo K. T. Lesko J. Liao J. Lin A. Lindote M. I. Lopes A. Manalaysay R. L. Mannino N. Marangou D. N. McKinsey D.-M. Mei M. Moongweluwan J. A. Morad A. St. J. Murphy A. Naylor C. Nehrkorn H. N. Nelson F. Neves A. Nilima K. C. Oliver-Mallory K. J. Palladino E. K. Pease Q. Riffard G. R. C. Rischbieter C. Rhyne P. Rossiter S. Shaw T. A. Shutt C. Silva M. Solmaz V. N. Solovov P. Sorensen T. J. Sumner M. Szydagis D. J. Taylor R. Taylor W. C. Taylor B. P. Tennyson P. A. Terman D. R. Tiedt W. H. To L. Tvrznikova U. Utku S. Uvarov A. Vacheret V. Velan R. C. Webb J. T. White T. J. Whitis M. S. Witherell F. L. H. Wolfs D. Woodward J. Xu C. Zhang
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We present a comprehensive analysis of electronic recoil vs. nuclear recoil discrimination in liquid/gas xenon time projection chambers, using calibration data from the 2013 and 2014-16 runs of the Large Underground Xenon (LUX) experiment. We observe strong charge-to-light discrimination enhancement with increased event energy. For events with S1 = 120 detected photons, i.e. equivalent to a nuclear recoil energy of $\sim$100 keV, we observe an electronic recoil background acceptance of $<10^{-5}$ at a nuclear recoil signal acceptance of 50%. We also observe modest electric field dependence of the discrimination power, which peaks at a field of around 300 V/cm over the range of fields explored in this study (50-500 V/cm). In the WIMP search region of S1 = 1-80 phd, the minimum electronic recoil leakage we observe is ${(7.3\pm0.6)\times10^{-4}}$, which is obtained for a drift field of 240-290 V/cm. Pulse shape discrimination is utilized to improve our results, and we find that, at low energies and low fields, there is an additional reduction in background leakage by a factor of up to 3. We develop an empirical model for recombination fluctuations which, when used alongside the Noble Element Scintillation Technique (NEST) simulation package, correctly reproduces the skewness of the electronic recoil data. We use this updated simulation to study the width of the electronic recoil band, finding that its dominant contribution comes from electron-ion recombination fluctuations, followed in magnitude of contribution by fluctuations in the S1 signal, fluctuations in the S2 signal, and fluctuations in the total number of quanta produced for a given energy deposition.

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