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    Battat, J.B.R.; Ezeribe, A.C.; Gauvreau, J.-L.; Harton, J.L.; Lafler, R.; Law, E.; Lee, E.R.; Loomba, D.; Lumnah, A.; Miller, E.H.; Monte, A.; Mouton, F.; Paling, S.M.; Phan, N.S.; Robinson, M.; Sadler, S.W.; Scarff, A.; Schuckman II, F.G.; Snowden-Ifft, D.P.; Spooner, N.J.C.; Waldram, N.

    Astroparticle physics, 20/May , Volume: 91
    Journal Article

    We present results from a 54.7 live-day shielded run of the DRIFT-IId detector, the world's most sensitive, directional, dark matter detector. Several improvements were made relative to our previous work including a lower threshold for detection, a more robust analysis and a tenfold improvement in our gamma rejection factor. After analysis, no events remain in our fiducial region leading to an exclusion curve for spin-dependent WIMP-proton interactions which reaches 0.28pb at 100GeV/c2, a fourfold improvement on our previous work. We also present results from a 45.4 live-day unshielded run of the DRIFT-IId detector during which 14 nuclear recoil-like events were observed. We demonstrate that the observed nuclear recoil rate of 0.31 ± 0.08 events per day is consistent with detection of ambient, fast neutrons emanating from the walls of the Boulby Underground Science Facility.