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Position Reconstruction in a Dual Phase Xenon Scintillation Detector by Solovov, V. N., Belov, V. A., Akimov, D. Y., Araujo, H. M., Barnes, E. J., Burenkov, A. A., Chepel, V., Currie, A., DeViveiros, L., Edwards, B., Ghag, C., Hollingsworth, A., Horn, M., Kalmus, G. E., Kobyakin, A. S., Kovalenko, A. G., Lebedenko, V. N., Lindote, A., Lopes, M. I., Luscher, R., Majewski, P., Murphy, A. S. J., Neves, F., Paling, S. M., Pinto da Cunha, J., Preece, R., Quenby, J. J., Reichhart, L., Scovell, P. R., Silva, C., Smith, N. J. T., Smith, P. F., Stekhanov, V. N., Sumner, T. J., Thorne, C., Walker, R. J.

“…We studied the application of statistical reconstruction algorithms, namely maximum likelihood and least squares methods, to the problem of event…”
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Results from the first science run of the ZEPLIN-III dark matter search experiment by Lebedenko, V. N., Araújo, H. M., Barnes, E. J., Bewick, A., Cashmore, R., Chepel, V., Currie, A., Davidge, D., Dawson, J., Durkin, T., Edwards, B., Ghag, C., Horn, M., Howard, A. S., Hughes, A. J., Jones, W. G., Joshi, M., Kalmus, G. E., Kovalenko, A. G., Lindote, A., Liubarsky, I., Lopes, M. I., Lüscher, R., Majewski, P., Murphy, A. St. J., Neves, F., Pinto da Cunha, J., Preece, R., Quenby, J. J., Scovell, P. R., Silva, C., Solovov, V. N., Smith, N. J. T., Smith, P. F., Stekhanov, V. N., Sumner, T. J., Thorne, C., Walker, R. J.

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The SNOLAB deep underground facility by Smith, N. J. T.

“…The rigorous radiation background constraints imposed by several studies in particle and astro-particle physics, such as Galactic dark-matter searches,…”
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Single electron emission in two-phase xenon with application to the detection of coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering by Santos, E., Edwards, B., Chepel, V., Araújo, H. M., Akimov, D. Y., Barnes, E. J., Belov, V. A., Burenkov, A. A., Currie, A., DeViveiros, L., Ghag, C., Hollingsworth, A., Horn, M., Kalmus, G. E., Kobyakin, A. S., Kovalenko, A. G., Lebedenko, V. N., Lindote, A., Lopes, M. I., Lüscher, R., Majewski, P., St J. Murphy, A., Neves, F., Paling, S. M., Pinto da Cunha, J., Preece, R., Quenby, J. J., Reichhart, L., Scovell, P. R., Silva, C., Solovov, V. N., Smith, N. J. T., Smith, P. F., Stekhanov, V. N., Sumner, T. J., Thorne, C., Walker, R. J.

“…A bstract We present an experimental study of single electron emission in ZEPLIN-III, a two-phase xenon experiment built to search for dark matter WIMPs, and…”
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Effects of TiO2, ZrO2 and Al2O3 dopants on the compressive strength of tricalcium phosphate by Zawahreh, Y I, Popova, N, Smith, R W, Hendry, J, Smith, T J N, Ziolo, T L

“…Tricalcium phosphate (TCP) powders synthesised using the Ca(NO3)2 and Ca(OH)2 routes were doped with TiO2, ZrO2 and Al2O3 in order to increase their…”
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Limits on the spin-dependent WIMP-nucleon cross sections from the first science run of the ZEPLIN-III experiment by Lebedenko, V N, Araújo, H M, Barnes, E J, Bewick, A, Cashmore, R, Chepel, V, Currie, A, Davidge, D, Dawson, J, Durkin, T, Edwards, B, Ghag, C, Horn, M, Howard, A S, Hughes, A J, Jones, W G, Joshi, M, Kalmus, G E, Kovalenko, A G, Lindote, A, Liubarsky, I, Lopes, M I, Lüscher, R, Lyons, K, Majewski, P, Murphy, A St J, Neves, F, da Cunha, J Pinto, Preece, R, Quenby, J J, Scovell, P R, Silva, C, Solovov, V N, Smith, N J T, Smith, P F, Stekhanov, V N, Sumner, T J, Thorne, C, Walker, R J

“…We present new experimental constraints on the WIMP-nucleon spin-dependent elastic cross sections using data from the first science run of ZEPLIN-III, a…”
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Resorbable bioceramics based on stabilized calcium phosphates. Part I: rational design, sample preparation and material characterization by Langstaff, S., Sayer, M., Smith, T.J.N., Pugh, S.M., Hesp, S.A.M., Thompson, W.T.

“…It has long been the goal of biomaterials research in the field of orthopedics to develop synthetic structures exhibiting comprehensive bioactivity. In…”
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The liquid-argon scintillation pulseshape in DEAP-3600 by Adhikari, P., Ajaj, R., Araujo, G. R., Batygov, M., Beltran, B., Bina, C. E., Boulay, M. G., Broerman, B., Bueno, J. F., Butcher, A., Cai, B., Cárdenas-Montes, M., Cavuoti, S., Chen, Y., Corning, J. M., Daugherty, S. J., Di Stefano, P., Dering, K., Doria, L., Duncan, F. A., Dunford, M., Erlandson, A., Fatemighomi, N., Fiorillo, G., Flower, A., Ford, R. J., Gagnon, R., Gallacher, D., Garcés, E. A., Abia, P. García, Garg, S., Giampa, P., Goeldi, D., Golovko, V. V., Gorel, P., Graham, K., Grant, D. R., Grobov, A., Hallin, A. L., Hamstra, M., Harvey, P. J., Ilyasov, A., Joy, A., Jillings, C. J., Kamaev, O., Kaur, G., Kemp, A., Kochanek, I., Kuźniak, M., Langrock, S., La Zia, F., Lehnert, B., Levashko, N., Li, X., Litvinov, O., Lock, J., Longo, G., Machulin, I., Majewski, P., McDonald, A. B., McElroy, T., McGinn, T., McLaughlin, J. B., Mehdiyev, R., Mielnichuk, C., Monroe, J., Nadeau, P., Nantais, C., Ng, C., Noble, A. J., Ouellet, C., Pal, S., Pasuthip, P., Peeters, S. J. M., Pesudo, V., Piro, M.-C., Pollmann, T. R., Rand, E. T., Rethmeier, C., Retière, F., García, E. Sanchez, Sánchez-Pastor, T., Seeburn, N., Skensved, P., Smith, B., Smith, N. J. T., Sonley, T., Stainforth, R., Stone, C., Strickland, V., Stringer, M., Sur, B., Veloce, L., Viel, S., Walding, J., Waqar, M., Ward, M., Westerdale, S., Willis, J., Zuñiga-Reyes, A.

“…DEAP-3600 is a liquid-argon scintillation detector looking for dark matter. Scintillation events in the liquid argon (LAr) are registered by 255…”
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In-situ characterization of the Hamamatsu R5912-HQE photomultiplier tubes used in the DEAP-3600 experiment by Amaudruz, P.-A., Batygov, M., Beltran, B., Bina, C.E., Bishop, D., Bonatt, J., Boorman, G., Boulay, M.G., Broerman, B., Bromwich, T., Bueno, J.F., Butcher, A., Cai, B., Chan, S., Chen, M., Chouinard, R., Churchwell, S., Cleveland, B.T., Cranshaw, D., Dering, K., Dittmeier, S., Duncan, F.A., Dunford, M., Erlandson, A., Fatemighomi, N., Ford, R.J., Gagnon, R., Giampa, P., Golovko, V.V., Gorel, P., Gornea, R., Grace, E., Graham, K., Grant, D.R., Gulyev, E., Hall, A., Hallin, A.L., Hamstra, M., Harvey, P.J., Hearns, C., Jillings, C.J., Kamaev, O., Kemp, A., Kuźniak, M., Langrock, S., La Zia, F., Lehnert, B., Li, O., Lidgard, J.J., Liimatainen, P., Lim, C., Lindner, T., Linn, Y., Liu, S., Mathew, R., McDonald, A.B., McElroy, T., McFarlane, K., McLaughlin, J., Mead, S., Mehdiyev, R., Mielnichuk, C., Monroe, J., Muir, A., Nadeau, P., Nantais, C., Ng, C., Noble, A.J., O’Dwyer, E., Ohlmann, C., Olchanski, K., Olsen, K.S., Ouellet, C., Pasuthip, P., Peeters, S.J.M., Pollmann, T.R., Rand, E.T., Rethmeier, C., Retière, F., Seeburn, N., Shaw, B., Singhrao, K., Skensved, P., Smith, B., Smith, N.J.T., Sonley, T., Stainforth, R., Stone, C., Strickland, V., Sur, B., Tang, J., Taylor, J., Veloce, L., Vázquez-Jáuregui, E., Walding, J., Ward, M., Westerdale, S., White, R., Woolsey, E., Zielinski, J.

“…The Hamamatsu R5912-HQE photomultiplier-tube (PMT) is a novel high-quantum efficiency PMT. It is currently used in the DEAP-3600 dark matter detector and is of…”
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WIMP-nucleon cross-section results from the second science run of ZEPLIN-III by Akimov, D.Yu, Araújo, H.M., Barnes, E.J., Belov, V.A., Bewick, A., Burenkov, A.A., Chepel, V., Currie, A., DeViveiros, L., Edwards, B., Ghag, C., Hollingsworth, A., Horn, M., Jones, W.G., Kalmus, G.E., Kobyakin, A.S., Kovalenko, A.G., Lebedenko, V.N., Lindote, A., Lopes, M.I., Lüscher, R., Majewski, P., Murphy, A.St.J., Neves, F., Paling, S.M., Pinto da Cunha, J., Preece, R., Quenby, J.J., Reichhart, L., Scovell, P.R., Silva, C., Solovov, V.N., Smith, N.J.T., Stekhanov, V.N., Sumner, T.J., Thorne, C., Walker, R.J.

“…We report experimental upper limits on WIMP-nucleon elastic scattering cross sections from the second science run of ZEPLIN-III at the Boulby Underground…”
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Precision measurement of the specific activity of 39Ar in atmospheric argon with the DEAP-3600 detector by Amaudruz, P.-A., Anstey, J., Araujo, G. R., Auty, D. J., Baldwin, M., Bonatt, J., Bonivento, W., Boulay, M. G., Broerman, B., Bueno, J. F., Burghardt, P. M., Cadeddu, M., Cai, B., Cárdenas-Montes, M., Chen, Y., Choudhary, S., Crampton, R., Cranshaw, D., Daugherty, S., DelGobbo, P., Dering, K., Stefano, P. Di, DiGioseffo, J., Duncan, F. A., Dunford, M., Farahani, S. S., Fatemighomi, N., Florian, S., Flower, A., Ford, R. J., Gagnon, R., Gallacher, D., Giampa, P., Golovko, V. V., Gorel, P., Graham, K., Grant, D. R., Grobov, A., Hamstra, M., Harvey, P. J., Hearns, C., Hucker, J., Hugues, T., Ilyasov, A., Jigmeddorj, B., Joy, A., Kamaev, O., Kaur, G., Kemp, A., Kuźniak, M., Zia, F. La, Langrock, S., Lehnert, B., Leonhardt, A., Levashko, N., Lidgard, J., Lindner, T., Lissia, M., McDonald, A. B., McElroy, T., McGinn, T., McLaughlin, J. B., Mehdiyev, R., Mielnichuk, C., Mirasola, L., Monroe, J., Nadeau, P., Nantais, C., Ng, C., Noble, A. J., O’Dwyer, E., Oliviéro, G., Pasuthip, P., Peeters, S. J. M., Pesudo, V., Picciau, E., Pollmann, T. R., Rand, E. T., Rodríguez García, I., Santorelli, R., Schuckman II, F. G., Seeburn, N., Seth, S., Shalamova, V., Singhrao, K., Skensved, P., Smith, B., Sobotkiewich, K., Sonley, T., Sosiak, J., Soukup, J., Sur, B., Tang, J., Veloce, L., Viel, S., Vyas, B., Walding, J., Ward, M., Westerdale, S., Zuñiga-Reyes, A.

“…The specific activity of the β decay of 39 Ar in atmospheric argon is measured using the DEAP-3600 detector. DEAP-3600, located 2 km underground at SNOLAB,…”
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Nuclear recoil scintillation and ionisation yields in liquid xenon from ZEPLIN-III data by Horn, M., Belov, V.A., Akimov, D.Yu, Araújo, H.M., Barnes, E.J., Burenkov, A.A., Chepel, V., Currie, A., Edwards, B., Ghag, C., Hollingsworth, A., Kalmus, G.E., Kobyakin, A.S., Kovalenko, A.G., Lebedenko, V.N., Lindote, A., Lopes, M.I., Lüscher, R., Majewski, P., Murphy, A.StJ, Neves, F., Paling, S.M., Pinto da Cunha, J., Preece, R., Quenby, J.J., Reichhart, L., Scovell, P.R., Silva, C., Solovov, V.N., Smith, N.J.T., Smith, P.F., Stekhanov, V.N., Sumner, T.J., Thorne, C., de Viveiros, L., Walker, R.J.

“…Scintillation and ionisation yields for nuclear recoils in liquid xenon above 10 keVnr (nuclear recoil energy) are deduced from data acquired using broadband…”
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Phase formation and evolution in the silicon substituted tricalcium phosphate/apatite system by Reid, J.W., Pietak, A., Sayer, M., Dunfield, D., Smith, T.J.N.

“…The sintering of silicon doped calcium phosphate ceramics prepared from a basic colloidal hydroxyapatite (Ca 5(PO 4) 3OH or HA) precipitate mixed with silica…”
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First limits on WIMP nuclear recoil signals in ZEPLIN-II: A two-phase xenon detector for dark matter detection by Alner, G.J., Araújo, H.M., Bewick, A., Bungau, C., Camanzi, B., Carson, M.J., Cashmore, R.J., Chagani, H., Chepel, V., Cline, D., Davidge, D., Davies, J.C., Daw, E., Dawson, J., Durkin, T., Edwards, B., Gamble, T., Gao, J., Ghag, C., Howard, A.S., Jones, W.G., Joshi, M., Korolkova, E.V., Kudryavtsev, V.A., Lawson, T., Lebedenko, V.N., Lewin, J.D., Lightfoot, P., Lindote, A., Liubarsky, I., Lopes, M.I., Lüscher, R., Majewski, P., Mavrokoridis, K., McMillan, J.E., Morgan, B., Muna, D., Murphy, A.St.J., Neves, F., Nicklin, G.G., Ooi, W., Paling, S.M., Pinto da Cunha, J., Plank, S.J.S., Preece, R.M., Quenby, J.J., Robinson, M., Salinas, G., Sergiampietri, F., Silva, C., Solovov, V.N., Smith, N.J.T., Smith, P.F., Spooner, N.J.C., Sumner, T.J., Thorne, C., Tovey, D.R., Tziaferi, E., Walker, R.J., Wang, H., White, J.T., Wolfs, F.L.H.

“…Results are presented from the first underground data run of ZEPLIN-II, a 31 kg two-phase xenon detector developed to observe nuclear recoils from hypothetical…”
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In-situ characterization of the Hamamatsu R5912-HQE photomultiplier tubes used in the DEAP-3600 experiment by Amaudruz, P. -A., Batygov, M., Beltran, B., Bina, C. E., Bishop, D., Bonatt, J., Boorman, G., Boulay, M. G., Broerman, B., Bromwich, T., Bueno, J. F., Butcher, A., Cai, B., Chan, S., Chen, M., Chouinard, R., Churchwell, S., Cleveland, B. T., Cranshaw, D., Dering, K., Dittmeier, S., Duncan, F. A., Dunford, M., Erlandson, A., Fatemighomi, N., Ford, R. J., Gagnon, R., Giampa, P., Golovko, V. V., Gorel, P., Gornea, R., Grace, E., Graham, K., Grant, D. R., Gulyev, E., Hall, A., Hallin, A. L., Hamstra, M., Harvey, P. J., Hearns, C., Jillings, C. J., Kamaev, O., Kemp, A., Kuźniak, M., Langrock, S., La Zia, F., Lehnert, B., Li, O., Lidgard, J. J., Liimatainen, P., Lim, C., Lindner, T., Linn, Y., Liu, S., Mathew, R., McElroy, T., McFarlane, K., McLaughlin, J., Mead, S., Mehdiyev, R., Mielnichuk, C., Monroe, J., Muir, A., Nadeau, P., Nantais, C., Ng, C., Noble, A. J., O’Dwyer, E., Ohlmann, C., Olchanski, K., Olsen, K. S., Ouellet, C., Pasuthip, P., Peeters, S. J. M., Pollmann, T. R., Rand, E. T., Rau, W., Rethmeier, C., Retière, F., Seeburn, N., Shaw, B., Singhrao, K., Skensved, P., Smith, B., Smith, N. J. T., Sonley, T., Stainforth, R., Stone, C., Strickland, V., Sur, B., Tang, J., Taylor, J., Veloce, L., Vázquez-Jáuregui, E., Walding, J., Ward, M., Westerdale, S., White, R., Woolsey, E., Zielinski, J.

“…The Hamamatsu R5912-HQE photomultiplier-tube (PMT) is a novel high-quantum efficiency PMT. It is currently used in the DEAP-3600 dark matter detector and is of…”
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Measurement and simulation of the muon-induced neutron yield in lead by Reichhart, L., Lindote, A., Akimov, D.Yu, Araújo, H.M., Barnes, E.J., Belov, V.A., Bewick, A., Burenkov, A.A., Chepel, V., Currie, A., DeViveiros, L., Edwards, B., Francis, V., Ghag, C., Hollingsworth, A., Horn, M., Kalmus, G.E., Kobyakin, A.S., Kovalenko, A.G., Kudryavtsev, V.A., Lebedenko, V.N., Lopes, M.I., Lüscher, R., Majewski, P., Murphy, A.St J., Neves, F., Paling, S.M., Pinto da Cunha, J., Preece, R., Quenby, J.J., Scovell, P.R., Silva, C., Solovov, V.N., Smith, N.J.T., Smith, P.F., Stekhanov, V.N., Sumner, T.J., Thorne, C., Walker, R.J.

“…A measurement is presented of the neutron production rate in lead by high energy cosmic-ray muons at a depth of 2850m water equivalent (w.e.) and a mean muon…”
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Limits on inelastic dark matter from ZEPLIN-III by Akimov, D.Yu, Araújo, H.M., Barnes, E.J., Belov, V.A., Bewick, A., Burenkov, A.A., Cashmore, R., Chepel, V., Currie, A., Davidge, D., Dawson, J., Durkin, T., Edwards, B., Ghag, C., Hollingsworth, A., Horn, M., Howard, A.S., Hughes, A.J., Jones, W.G., Kalmus, G.E., Kobyakin, A.S., Kovalenko, A.G., Lebedenko, V.N., Lindote, A., Liubarsky, I., Lopes, M.I., Lüscher, R., Lyons, K., Majewski, P., Murphy, A.StJ, Neves, F., Paling, S.M., Pinto da Cunha, J., Preece, R., Quenby, J.J., Reichhart, L., Scovell, P.R., Silva, C., Solovov, V.N., Smith, N.J.T., Smith, P.F., Stekhanov, V.N., Sumner, T.J., Thorne, C., de Viveiros, L., Walker, R.J.

“…We present limits on the WIMP–nucleon cross section for inelastic dark matter from a reanalysis of the 2008 run of ZEPLIN-III. Cuts, notably on scintillation…”
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Design and construction of the DEAP-3600 dark matter detector by Amaudruz, P. -A., Baldwin, M., Batygov, M., Beltran, B., Bina, C. E., Bishop, D., Bonatt, J., Boorman, G., Boulay, M. G., Broerman, B., Bueno, J. F., Burghardt, P. M., Butcher, A., Cai, B., Chan, S., Chen, M., Chouinard, R., Churchwell, S., Cleveland, B. T., Cranshaw, D., Dering, K., Dittmeier, S., Duncan, F. A., Dunford, M., Erlandson, A., Fatemighomi, N., Florian, S., Flower, A., Ford, R. J., Gagnon, R., Giampa, P., Golovko, V. V., Gorel, P., Gornea, R., Grace, E., Graham, K., Grant, D. R., Gulyev, E., Hall, A., Hallin, A. L., Harvey, P. J., Hearns, C., Jillings, C. J., Kamaev, O., Kuźniak, M., Langrock, S., La Zia, F., Lehnert, B., Lidgard, J. J., Liimatainen, P., Lim, C., Lindner, T., Linn, Y., Liu, S., Majewski, P., Mathew, R., McDonald, A. B., McElroy, T., McFarlane, K., McLaughlin, J. B., Mead, S., Mehdiyev, R., Mielnichuk, C., Monroe, J., Muir, A., Nadeau, P., Nantais, C., Ng, C., Noble, A. J., O’Dwyer, E., Ohlmann, C., Olchanski, K., Olsen, K. S., Ouellet, C., Pasuthip, P., Peeters, S. J. M., Pollmann, T. R., Rand, E. T., Rau, W., Rethmeier, C., Retière, F., Seeburn, N., Shaw, B., Singhrao, K., Skensved, P., Smith, B., Smith, N. J. T., Sonley, T., Soukup, J., Stainforth, R., Sur, B., Tang, J., Taylor, J., Vázquez-Jáuregui, E., Walding, J., Ward, M., Westerdale, S., White, R., Woolsey, E., Zielinski, J.

“…The Dark matter Experiment using Argon Pulse-shape discrimination (DEAP) has been designed for a direct detection search for particle dark matter using a…”
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Activities of \gamma-ray emitting isotopes in rainwater from Greater Sudbury, Canada following the Fukushima incident by Cleveland, B. T, Duncan, F. A, Lawson, I. T, Smith, N. J. T, Vazquez-Jauregui, E

“…We report the activity measured in rainwater samples collected in the Greater Sudbury area of eastern Canada on 3, 16, 20, and 26 April 2011. The samples were…”
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The ZEPLIN-III dark matter detector: Instrument design, manufacture and commissioning by Akimov, D.Yu, Alner, G.J., Araújo, H.M., Bewick, A., Bungau, C., Burenkov, A.A., Carson, M.J., Chagani, H., Chepel, V., Cline, D., Davidge, D., Daw, E., Dawson, J., Durkin, T., Edwards, B., Gamble, T., Chag, C., Hollingworth, R.J., Howard, A.S., Jones, W.G., Joshi, M., Mavrokoridis, K., Korolkova, E., Kovalenko, A., Kudryavtsev, V.A., Kuznetsov, I.S., Lawson, T., Lebedenko, V.N., Lewin, J.D., Lightfoot, P., Lindote, A., Liubarsky, I., Lopes, M.I., Lüscher, R., McMillan, J.E., Majewski, P., Morgan, B., Muna, D., Murphy, A.S., Neves, F., Nicklin, G.G., Paling, S.M., Pinto da Cunha, J., Plank, S.J.S., Preece, R., Quenby, J.J., Robinson, M., Silva, C., Solovov, V.N., Smith, N.J.T., Smith, P.F., Spooner, N.J.C., Stekhanov, V., Sumner, T.J., Thorne, C., Tovey, D.R., Tziaferi, E., Walker, R.J., Wang, H., White, J., Wolfs, F.

“…We present details of the technical design, manufacture and testing of the ZEPLIN-III dark matter experiment. ZEPLIN-III is a two-phase xenon detector which…”
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