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28 March 2024
 
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Measurement of Muon Annual Modulation and Muon-Induced Phosphorescence in NaI(Tl) Crystals with DM-Ice17
J. Cherwinka ; D. Grant ; F. Halzen ; K. M. Heeger ; L. Hsu ; A. J. F. Hubbard ; A. Karle ; M. Kauer ; V. A. Kudryavtsev ; K. E. Lim ; C. Macdonald ; R. H. Maruyama ; S. Paling ; W. Pettus ; Z. P. Pierpoint ; B. N. Reilly ; M. Robinson ; P. Sandstrom ; N. J. C. Spooner ; S. Telfer ; L. Yang ;
Date 8 Sep 2015
AbstractWe report the measurement of muons and muon-induced phosphorescence in DM-Ice17, a NaI(Tl) direct detection dark matter experiment at the South Pole. Muons are identified by the observed pulse shape and large energy deposition of their interaction in the crystals. The measured muon rate in DM-Ice17 is 2.93 $pm$ 0.04 $mu$/crystal/day with a modulation amplitude of 12.3 $pm$ 1.7%, consistent with expectation. Following muon interactions, we observe long-lived phosphorescence in the NaI(Tl) crystals with a decay time of 5.5 $pm$ 0.5 s. The prompt energy deposited by a muon is correlated to the amount of delayed phosphorescence, the brightest of which consist of tens of millions of photons. As they are distributed over tens of seconds, the rate and timing structure of photon arrivals do not mimic a scintillation signal above 2 keV$_mathrm{ee}$. While the properties of phosphorescence vary between individual crystals, the annually-modulating signal observed by DAMA cannot be accounted for by phosphorescence with the characteristics observed in DM-Ice17.
Source arXiv, 1509.2486
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