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Re:Dark Matter Detector Records One of the Rarest Events Kno... by gus_massa on Saturday April 27, 2019 @12:09PM (#19766207)
Wikipedia says that the natural abundance of Xenon-124 is 0.095% = 1/1000. Adding that correction I get a few decays per day that is more similar to the data reported in other commit that is 126 events in 177 days.

Edit: I think I'm missing a ln_e(2) in the calculation, but it's only a 30% more or 30% less. It's not a huge change in the result.

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Re:Dark Matter Detector Records One of the Rarest Events Kno... by tibyat on Sunday April 28, 2019 @12:36PM (#19772061)
article says “1,300 kilograms (2,866 pounds) of xenon isotope”

not sure if that was intentional..

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Re:Dark Matter Detector Records One of the Rarest Events Kno... by gus_massa on Sunday April 28, 2019 @02:13PM (#19772668)
The other article didn't have the exact number, so I used the number of Wikipedia that says something like 3.6 tons in total and 2tons inside the measurement part (or something like that).
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