Additional Comments on "New Limits on Spin-Independent Couplings of Low-Mass WIMP Dark Matter with a Germanium Detector at a Threshold of 200 eV"
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III, FTA; Barbeau, PS; Collar, JI
June 8, 2008
In a previous comment (arXiv:0806.1341v1) we criticized purely technical aspects of arXiv:0712.1645 but pointed out that many other inconsistencies were readily apparent. In view of the imminent posting of another version of arXiv:0712.1645, still containing these issues, we would like to offer with this additional note a critical guide to the methodology followed by the TEXONO collaboration, in their effort to extract dark matter limits from a spectral region completely dominated by electronic noise. We find that systematics have been neglected through a combination of erroneous assumptions and failure to explore all of their possible sources.
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III, F. T. A., Barbeau, P. S., & Collar, J. I. (2008). Additional Comments on "New Limits on Spin-Independent Couplings of
Low-Mass WIMP Dark Matter with a Germanium Detector at a Threshold of 200 eV".
III, FT Avignone, P. S. Barbeau, and J. I. Collar. “Additional Comments on "New Limits on Spin-Independent Couplings of
Low-Mass WIMP Dark Matter with a Germanium Detector at a Threshold of 200 eV",” June 8, 2008.
III FTA, Barbeau PS, Collar JI. Additional Comments on "New Limits on Spin-Independent Couplings of
Low-Mass WIMP Dark Matter with a Germanium Detector at a Threshold of 200 eV". 2008 Jun 8;
III, FT Avignone, et al. Additional Comments on "New Limits on Spin-Independent Couplings of
Low-Mass WIMP Dark Matter with a Germanium Detector at a Threshold of 200 eV". June 2008.
III FTA, Barbeau PS, Collar JI. Additional Comments on "New Limits on Spin-Independent Couplings of
Low-Mass WIMP Dark Matter with a Germanium Detector at a Threshold of 200 eV". 2008 Jun 8;
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June 8, 2008