7–11 Dec 2026
The University of Sydney
Australia/Sydney timezone
AIP Congress 2026

SABRE South: Simulation, software framework, and physics reach

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20m
Belinda Hutchinson Building (The University of Sydney )

Belinda Hutchinson Building

The University of Sydney

Abercrombie St & Codrington St NSW 2008
Contributed Oral AIP | Nuclear and Particle Physics (NUPP)

Speaker

Subrahmanya Saicharan Pemmaraju

Description

The SABRE South experiment at the Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory (SUPL) will soon become Australia’s first deep-underground direct-detection dark matter experiment. In preparation for commissioning and data taking, a suite of software tools has been developed to support detector simulation and data analysis.

This work presents the software frameworks underpinning SABRE South’s physics programme. SABREMC is a GEANT4-based Monte Carlo simulation package that simulates particle interactions and optical processes in the detector geometry. FASST models scintillation and parametric optical transport in the detector subsystems, whilst DOOM simulates the final digitised PMT readout waveforms. Pyrate provides a framework for online and offline waveform processing and analysis.

Together, these tools form an end-to-end simulation and analysis pipeline that enables detector characterisation, sensitivity studies, and analysis development. This software ecosystem has been instrumental in evaluating the expected performance and physics reach of SABRE South prior to deployment, providing a realistic representation of detector behaviour from particle interaction to reconstructed waveform.

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Authors

Daniel Marcantonio (University of Melbourne) Elisabetta Barberio Phillip Urquijo (The University of Melbourne) Robert James (The University of Melbourne) Subrahmanya Saicharan Pemmaraju

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