2011

NEST: A Comprehensive Model for Scintillation Yield in Liquid Xenon

Szydagis, M., Barry, N., Kazkaz, K. et al.

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A comprehensive model for explaining scintillation yield in liquid xenon is introduced.

We unify various definitions of work function which abound in the literature and incorporate all available data on electron recoil scintillation yield.
This results in a better understanding of electron recoil, and facilitates an improved description of nuclear recoil.
An incident gamma energy range of O(1 keV) to O(1 MeV) and electric fields between 0 and O(10 kV/cm) are incorporated into this heuristic model.

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