Searches for Particle Dark Matter: Status and prospects

A scintillating bolometer for experiments on double beta decay

“…It is therefore very important to discriminate the signals produced by the searched particle from those of this background. This has been w x recently accomplished in scintillators 1 and in 1 Presently at the University of Neuchatel, Switzerland w x semiconductor detectors 1,2 by pulse shape discrimination.…”