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So this is a big enough detector? That would mean they need to wait for such events to occur again and again towards this "5sigmas". Hopefully, other aparatus
by sylware 28d ago
So this is a big enough detector? That would mean they need to wait for such events to occur again and again towards this "5sigmas".
Hopefully, other aparatus elsewhere are big enough too in order to spot similar events.
- evanb 27d agoNo one knows if it’s big enough—-that depends on the properties of dark matter and its interaction with xenon.
- sylware 25d agoIt is all about that single data point, which means that detector was big enough for that data point.
- evanb 25d 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).