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Comment on \On the subtleties of searching for dark matter with liquid xenon detectors\

Thers, D, Vitells, O, Meng, Y, Weber, M, Aprile, E, Oberlack, U, Arisaka, K, Melgarejo Fernandez, A J, Undagoitia, T Marrodan, Lamblin, J, Landsman, H, Lim, K E, Cardoso, J M R, Rosendahl, S, Persiani, R, Lopes, J A M, Hampel, W, Behrens, A, Bokeloh, K, Contreras, H, Selvi, M, Bauermeister, B, Colijn, A P, Alfonsi, M, Decowski, M P, Fattori, S, Balan, C, Duchovni, E, Orrigo, S E A, Shagin, P, Lindner, M, Goetzke, L W, Kish, A, Garbini, M, Cline, D, Gross, E, Molinario, A, Weinheimer, C, Cussonneau, J P, K -L Giboni, Brown, E, W -T Chen, Choi, B, Pantic, E, Lung, K, Scovell, P R, Massoli, F V, Gao, F, Baudis, L, Ghag, C, Wang, H, L Scotto Lavina, Grignon, C, Kaether, F, Fulgione, W, Levy, C, J M F dos Santos, Lindemann, S, Ferella, A D, Sartorelli, G, M Le Calloch, Lin, Q, The XENON Collaboration, Nativ, E, Simgen, H, Schreiner, J, Bruno, G, K Ni, Arneodo, F, Budnik, R, Lang, R F, Schumann, M, Teymourian, A, Beltrame, P, Plante, G, Rizzo, A, Priel, N

2012

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In a recent manuscript (arXiv:1208.5046) Peter Sorensen claims that XENON100's upper limits on spin-independent WIMP-nucleon cross sections for WIMP masses below 10 GeV \"may be understated by one order of magnitude or more\". Having performed a similar, though more detailed analysis prior to the submission of our new result (arXiv:1207.5988), we do not confirm these findings. We point out the rationale for not considering the described effect in our final analysis and list several potential problems with his study.

• Publisher: Cornell University Library, arXiv.org
• Subject: Dark matter / Weakly interacting massive particles / Xenon