Review Article

The WArP Experiment: A Double-Phase Argon Detector for Dark Matter Searches

Table 2

Summary of light yield measurements from calibration lines (gamma sources) and background measurements, performed in November 2011. Errors from fits are negligible. Errors on LY for -sources are taken as the sigma of the photo-peak distribution.

Nuclide -Energy (keV) LY (phe/keV)

Co 1173
Co 1335
Ba 356
Cs 662

Bkg Endpoint (keV) LY (phe/keV)

Ar 565