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A Review of NEST Models for Liquid Xenon and Exhaustive Comparison to Other Approaches

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arxiv 2211.10726 v4 pith:EKCIFOAT submitted 2022-11-19 hep-ex astro-ph.IMnucl-exphysics.ins-det

A Review of NEST Models for Liquid Xenon and Exhaustive Comparison to Other Approaches

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This paper will discuss the microphysical simulation of interactions in liquid xenon, the active detector medium in many leading rare-event searches for new physics, and describe experimental observables useful for understanding detector performance. The scintillation and ionization yield distributions for signal and background will be presented using the Noble Element Simulation Technique (NEST), which is a toolkit based on experimental data and simple, empirical formulae, which mimic previous microphysics modeling, but are guided by data. The NEST models for light and charge production as a function of the particle type, energy, and electric field will be reviewed, as well as models for energy resolution and final pulse areas. NEST will be compared to other models or sets of models, and vetted against real data, with several specific examples pulled from XENON, ZEPLIN, LUX, LZ, PandaX, and table-top experiments used for calibrations.

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