2017 CAP Congress / Congrès de l'ACP 2017

Veto of Signals induced by Seismicity in DEAP-3600 at SNOLAB

31 May 2017, 13:45

15m

Botterell B147 (Queen's University)

CLOSED - Oral (Student, Not in Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), pas dans la compétition) Instrumentation and Measurement Physics / Physique des instruments et mesures (DIMP-DPIM) W3-5 General Instrumentation (DIMP)General Instrumentation (DIMP) | Instrumentation générale (DPIM)

Speaker

Mr Colin Moore (SNOLAB)

Description

The SNOLAB facility is located within an active mine, and as such the experiments housed there are subject to daily seismic activity, both planned and unplanned. For this reason, A hydrophone has been installed within the water shielding tank of DEAP-3600, an ultra-low background dark matter experiment, to act as a seismograph and to identify and timestamp seismic activity. This presentation outlines the reasons for installing a seismograph, and documents the installation and integration of the hydrophone into the existing data acquisition system.

This talk won the SNOLAB summer student competition.