Speaker
Jeremy Savoie
(Université de Montréal)
Description
Low background techniques have been used in particle physics for a long time, but have surged in the past 30 years. As the detectors get bigger and more sensitive, the need to reduce undesirable backgrounds have become the bottleneck to achieve greater sensitivity. The most common background is alpha particles from radon and its daughters. Simulations have shown that PICO-500, the next generation large-scale dark matter experiment at Snolab, will be limited by exposure to ambient radon if no mitigation is done. In this talk, I will detail the PICO detector design, the impact of radon on low background experiments and the techniques used for the assembly of PICO-500 to mitigate this background.
| Keyword-1 | Dark matter |
|---|---|
| Keyword-2 | Low background techniques |
Author
Jeremy Savoie
(Université de Montréal)
Co-author
Alan Robinson
(Université de Montréal)