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Comment on 'On the subtleties of searching for dark matter with liquid xenon detectors'
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The XENON Collaboration; Aprile, E.; Alfonsi, M.; Arisaka, K.; Arneodo, F.; Balan, C.; Baudis, L.; Bauermeister, B.; Behrens, A.; Beltrame, P.; Bokeloh, K.; Brown, E.; Bruno, G.; Budnik, R.; Cardoso, J. M. R.; Chen, W. -T.; Choi, B.; Cline, D.; Colijn, A. P.; Contreras, H.; Cussonneau, J. P.; Decowski, M. P.; Duchovni, E.; Fattori, S.; Ferella, A. D.; Fulgione, W.; Gao, F.; Garbini, M.; Ghag, C.; Giboni, K. -L.; Goetzke, L. W.; Grignon, C.; Gross, E.; Hampel, W.; Kaether, F.; Kish, A.; Lamblin, J.; Landsman, H.; Lang, R. F.; Calloch, M. Le; Levy, C.; Lim, K. E.; Lin, Q.; Lindemann, S.; Lindner, M.; Lopes, J. A. M.; Lung, K.; Undagoitia, T. Marrodan; Massoli, F. V.; Fernandez, A. J. Melgarejo; Meng, Y.; Molinario, A.; Nativ, E.; Ni, K.; Oberlack, U.; Orrigo, S. E. A.; Pantic, E.; Persiani, R.; Plante, G.; Priel, N.; Rizzo, A.; Rosendahl, S.; Santos, J. M. F. dos; Sartorelli, G.; Schreiner, J.; Schumann, M.; Lavina, L. Scotto; Scovell, P. R.; Selvi, M.; Shagin, P.; Simgen, H.; Teymourian, A.; Thers, D.; Vitells, O.; Wang, H.; Weber, M.; Weinheimer, C.
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In a recent manuscript (arXiv:1208.5046) Peter Sorensen claims that XENON100's upper limits on spin-independent WIMP-nucleon cross sections for WIMP masses below 10 GeV "may be understated by one order of magnitude or more". Having performed a similar, though more detailed analysis prior to the submission of our new result (arXiv:1207.5988), we do not confirm these findings. We point out the rationale for not considering the described effect in our final analysis and list several potential problems with his study.
Comment: 3 pages, no figures
Comment: 3 pages, no figures