New result from Xenon 100 dark matter search

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petergreat

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Apr 13, 2011

XENON 100 published today the results from a 100-day run, significantly tightening the constraint on WIMP spin-independent cross-sections. It seems that they are beginning to probe interesting parameter spaces.
http://arxiv.org/abs/1104.2549

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Bill_K

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Apr 14, 2011

Thanks, this is really big news!

New result from Xenon 100 dark matter search

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