Abstract
The XENON100 experiment, situated in the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, aims at the direct detection of dark matter in the form of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), based on their interactions with xenon nuclei in an ultra low background dual-phase time projection chamber. This paper describes the general methods developed for the analysis of the XENON100 data, focusing on the 100.9 live days science run from which results on spin-independent elastic and inelastic WIMP-nucleon cross-sections have already been reported.
XENON100 Collaboration