Stephen Sekula (steve@chirp.cooleysekula.net)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Aug-2023 16:45:12 UTC
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I am really excited about the effort from experiments like # ANAIS and # COSINUS to definitely understand the "quenching factor" of sodium iodide crystals. NaI has appeared in many experiments, and increasingly in # darkmatter experiments. The QF relates energy in electrons (usually what you see in an experiment) to the energy of the original nuclear recoil. The QF is essential to proper interpretation of experiments using NaI.