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Anomalous events, with scintillation decay times shorter than nuclear recoils, have been observed by the UKDMC and Saclay NaI experiments. By using the event categories observed in the EDELWEISS experiment, we propose to interpret the anomalous NaI events as surface nuclear recoils accompanied with a small energy loss of an escaping alpha particle. The discrimination performances of the NaI experiments which have not taken into account these events in their analysis, notably for axial WIMP interactions, must then be reevaluated.
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Chardin, G. et al. (2001). Interpretation of the Anomalous NaI Events. In: Cline, D.B. (eds) Sources and Detection of Dark Matter and Dark Energy in the Universe. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04587-9_35
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