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XENON100 - The next Step towards 1 TonAfter the very successful run of XENON10, the first XENON detector with an overall mass of 15 kg and a target mass of 5.4 kg (after cuts), a part of the collaboration decided to go one step further: XENON100 will have a 10 times larger fiducial volume. This will increase the sensitivity to the WIMP parameter space even further and will provide an improved chance to detect WIMPs directly.
The design and optimization of XENON100 is currently under way, and we will start to assemble the system in Italy in fall 2007. First WIMP runs are expected for 2008. In the future, one could imagine an array of 10 XENON100 modules constituting the first 1 ton Dark Matter experiment.
Rice's Contribution to XENON100
Rice is also involved in parts of the experiment slow control, in particular the precise monitoring of the liquid xenon level, and we are responsible for the data acquisition (DAQ) and the trigger. In the future, we will focus on simulations of the XENON100 light response,
data analysis, and - of course - detector operation and calibrations.
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