is an experiment designed to search for double beta decay of 136 Xe with a single-phase, liquid xenon detector. It uses an active mass of 110 kg of xenon enriched to 80.6% in the isotope 136 in an ultra-low background time projection chamber capable of simultaneous detection of ionization and scintillation. This paper describes the EXO-200 detector with particular attention to the most innovative aspects of the design that revolve around the reduction of backgrounds, the efficient use of the expensive isotopically enriched xenon, and the optimization of the energy resolution in a relatively large volume.-1 -arXiv:1202.2192v2 [physics.ins-det]

A systematic study of the damage function of both Ag and Cu has been performed by measuring resistivity increments induced by irradiation of thin-foil specimens at 6 K with several species of ions. Beam energies were selected such that the projectiles were stopped within the target. Results were compared with theoretical calculations based on a modified Kinchin-Pease damage function. The damage efficiency (ratio of experimental-to-theoretical values) is roughly unity for irradiations with H, but decreases rapidly as the projectile mass increases, which results in harder recoil spectra. For projectiles heavier than Ne, the efficiency becomes relatively co'nstant (0.4 for Ag and 0.35 for Cu). These results indicate that deviations from the modified Kinchin-Pease model begin to occur at energies not far above the displacement threshold energy and the eAiciency becomes roughly constant for recoil energies greater than a few keV. Comparison is made with damage-rate studies for other types of irradiation.

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Magnetic anisotropy and order structure of L10-FePt(001) single-crystal films grown epitaxially on (001) planes of MgO, SrTiO3, and MgAl2O4 substrates A hightemperature xraydiffraction study of epitaxial PbTiO3 thin films on MgO(100) grown by metalorganic chemicalvapor deposition Preparation and properties of (Pb,La)(Zr,Ti)O3 thin films by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition

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