2014 CAP Congress / Congrès de l'ACP 2014

PICO-2L analysis and background discrimination techniques.

19 Jun 2014, 10:00

15m

C-112 (Laurentian University / Université Laurentienne)

Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition) Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD) (R1-9) Future of Cosmic Frontier: Dark Matter II - PPD-DNP-DTP / Avenir de la frontière cosmique: matière sombre II - PPD-DPN-DPT

Speaker

Chanpreet Amole (Q)

Description

The PICO collaboration has recently commissioned a superheated liquid dark matter detector with 2 liters of perfluoropropane (C3F8) as a target material at the SNOLAB underground laboratory. Although PICO-2L is a pilot experiment for the larger mass PICO-250L detector, it provides an excellent sensitivity to low-mass (~10 GeV) WIMP due to the powerful background rejection at nuclear recoil thresholds of as low as 3 keV. The status of the analysis and the performance of the detector will be discussed, and an overview of the various techniques used in data analysis will be provided.

Presentation materials

Slides

PICOanalysis2_Chanpreet.pdf