Abstract
An active veto detector to complement the ZEPLIN-III two phase Xenon, direct dark matter device is described. The design consists of 52 plastic scintillator segments, individually read out by high efficiency photomultipliers, coupled to a Gd loaded passive polypropylene shield. Experimental work was performed to determine the plastic scintillator characteristics which were used to inform a complete end-to-end Monte Carlo simulation of the expected performance of the new instrument, both operating alone and as an active veto detector for ZEPLIN-III. The veto device will be capable of tagging over 65% of expected coincident nuclear recoil events in the energy range of interest in ZEPLIN-III, and over 14% for gamma ray rejection (gamma and neutron rate is predicted by simulation), while contributing no significant additional background. In addition it will also provide valuable diagnostic capabilities. The inclusion of the veto to ZEPLIN-III will aid to significantly improve the sensitivity to spin independent WIMP-nucleon cross sections ∼10−9 pb.
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