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No one knows if it’s big enough—-that depends on the properties of dark matter and its interaction with xenon.
by evanb 10d ago
No one knows if it’s big enough—-that depends on the properties of dark matter and its interaction with xenon.
- sylware 8d agoIt is all about that single data point, which means that detector was big enough for that data point.
- evanb 8d agoBut you could collect this data point by chance in a bigger or smaller detector. What I was addressing was whether this detector is big enough for a reliable discovery. In that case what you really want to constrain is the rate, such-and-such events per kilogram of xenon per year (the per-kilogram-of-xenon can be traded for a per-liter rate given the density of the xenon).