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A multi-tiered data structure and process management system based on ROOT and CouchDB

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment 684 (2012) 63-72

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GA Cox, E Armengaud, C Augier, A Benoît, L Bergé, T Bergmann, J Blümer, G Bres, A Broniatowski, V Brudanin, B Censier, M Chapellier, G Chardin, F Charlieux, S Collin, P Coulter, O Crauste, M De Jésus, J Domange, L Dumoulin, K Eitel, D Filosofov, N Fourches, J Gascon, G Gerbier, J Gironnet, M Gros, S Henry, S Hervé, S Jokisch, A Juillard, M Kleifges, H Kluck, V Kozlov, H Kraus, VA Kudryavtsev, P Loaiza, S Marnieros, A Menshikov, XF Navick, C Nones, E Olivieri, P Pari, L Pattavina, B Paul, M Robinson, H Rodenas, S Rozov, V Sanglard, B Schmidt, S Semikh, D Tcherniakhovski, AS Torrento-Coello, M Unrau, L Vagneron, MA Verdier, RJ Walker, M Weber, E Yakushev, X Zhang

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A multi-tiered data structure, analysis toolkit and data processing management system has been constructed using ROOT and CouchDB. This system is well suited for experiments that acquire many computer files of raw data over the course of months or years, that are distributed to different computing centers and further reduced in size by several steps of data processing. Data handling for experiments searching for rare events extracted from digitized pulse traces typically fit this description. An implementation of this system has been constructed for the EDELWEISS-III experiment and is described here in some detail. This solution may also serve as a prototype system for the proposed EURECA experiment. © 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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A search for low-mass WIMPs with EDELWEISS-II heat-and-ionization detectors

(2012)

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EDELWEISS Collaboration, E Armengaud, C Augier, A Benoît, L Bergé, T Bergmann, J Blümer, A Broniatowski, V Brudanin, B Censier, M Chapellier, F Charlieux, F Couëdo, P Coulter, GA Cox, J Domange, AA Drillien, L Dumoulin, K Eitel, D Filosofov, N Fourches, J Gascon, G Gerbier, J Gironnet, M Gros, G Heuermann, S Henry, S Hervé, A Juillard, M Kleifges, H Kluck, V Kozlov, H Kraus, VA Kudryavtsev, H Le Sueur, P Loaiza, S Marnieros, A Menshikov, X-F Navick, C Nones, E Olivieri, P Pari, B Paul, M Robinson, S Rozov, V Sanglard, B Schmidt, B Siebenborn, D Tcherniakhovski, AS Torrento-Coello, L Vagneron, RJ Walker, M Weber, E Yakushev, X Zhang
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Edelweiss

AIP Conference Proceedings 1441 (2012) 509-511

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The EDELWEISS-II collaboration has performed a direct search for WIMP dark matter with an array of ten 400 g heat-and-ionization cryogenic detectors equipped with interleaved electrodes for the rejection of near-surface events. Results from eleven months of continuous operation at the Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane are shown and their interpretation in terms of limits on the cross-section of spin-independent interactions of WIMPs and nucleons presented. The result obtained demonstrates the excellent background rejection capabilities of these simple and robust detectors in an actual WIMP search experiment. © 2012 American Institute of Physics.
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Erratum: Observational constraints on the ultrahigh energy cosmic neutrino flux from the second flight of the ANITA experiment [Phys. Rev. D 82 022004 (2010)]

Physical Review D American Physical Society (APS) 85:4 (2012) 049901

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PW Gorham, P Allison, BM Baughman, JJ Beatty, K Belov, DZ Besson, S Bevan, WR Binns, C Chen, P Chen, JM Clem, A Connolly, M Detrixhe, D De Marco, PF Dowkontt, M DuVernois, EW Grashorn, B Hill, S Hoover, M Huang, MH Israel, A Javaid, KM Liewer, S Matsuno, BC Mercurio, C Miki, M Mottram, J Nam, RJ Nichol, K Palladino, A Romero-Wolf, L Ruckman, D Saltzberg, D Seckel, RY Shang, GS Varner, AG Vieregg, Y Wang
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Extending the CRESST-II commissioning run limits to lower masses

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 85:2 (2012)

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A Brown, S Henry, H Kraus, C McCabe

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Motivated by the recent interest in light weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) of mass ∼O(10GeV/c2), an extension of the elastic, spin-independent, WIMP-nucleon cross-section limits resulting from the CRESST-II commissioning run (2007) are presented. Previously, these data were used to set cross-section limits from 1000GeV/c2 down to ∼17GeV/c2, using tungsten recoils, in 47.9 kg-days of exposure of calcium tungstate. Here, the overlap of the oxygen and calcium bands with the acceptance region of the commissioning run data set is reconstructed using previously published quenching factors. The resulting elastic WIMP cross-section limits, accounting for the additional exposure of oxygen and calcium, are presented down to 5GeV/c2. © 2012 American Physical Society.
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