Lexicon
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Find here links to sub-pages dedicated to terms belonging to the particular jargon of the Dark Matter community. Feel free to expand on this list, either by editing existing entries or creating entirely new ones. Remember that the point of this knowledge base is to deal with specificities of the field, not to replace exahaustive multiple definitions as found in a proper encyclopedy.
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Entries A - C
- Alpha particles
- Alpha, n
- Argon
- Axions
- Background
- Calibration
- Cosmic Rays
- Cosmogenic Activation
- Cross Section
- Cryogenics
- Cuts
Entries D - F
Entries G - I
- Gammas
- Gamma Counting -- see: Radioactive Screening
- Gamma-X
- Germanium
- Ionization
Entries J - L
- Kaluza-Klein Dark Matter
- Limit plot -- see: Exclusion plot
- Lead
Entries M - O
- Matlab
- Monte-Carlo
- NaI
- Neon
- Neutralino -- see: Supersymmetry
- Neutron
- Neutron Activation Analysis (NAA) -- see: Radioactive Screening
- NTD Sensors
Entries P - R
Entries S - U
- Sapphire
- Scintillation
- Shielding
- Silicon
- Slow-control
- Spin-dependent
- Spin-independent
- Supersymmetry
- Surface Events
- Thorium chain
- Underground Laboratories
- Uranium chain
