Speaker
Description
SuperCDMS is a direct detection dark matter experiment located 2 km underground at SNOLAB, designed to have particular sensitivity to the dark matter mass region <10 GeV/c2. In order to claim discovery or set new limits on dark matter properties such an experiment must have a detailed understanding of the backgrounds expected at the facility, the response of the detectors to these backgrounds, and a robust statistical framework to compare them to what a dark matter signal might look like. This talk addresses the challenges and progress in developing such a framework for SuperCDMS in preparation for first data taking this year. It includes a discussion of the key backgrounds we expect to see at SuperCDMS and lays out a ROOT-based statistical analysis framework for first science results.
| Keyword-1 | Dark matter |
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| Keyword-2 | Low background |