Principle of WIMP Detection II

• Recoiling nucleus releases energy

• Ionisation: free electric charge released

• Thermal: phonons created

• Scintillation: light pulse

  • The best detectors will ultimately use a combination of all three, or differences within a process

• UK project concentrates on scintillation detectors (NaI, liquid Xe)

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