Conveners
W2-3 Particle Physics VII (PPD) | Physique des particules VII (PPD)
- Akira Konaka (TRIUMF)
Solar neutrinos are an irreducible background for the SNO+ double beta decay experiment. Neutrino interactions in the SNO+ detector produce directional Cherenkov light which, if separated from the dominant scintillation light, would allow for neutrino direction reconstruction and elimination of solar neutrino signals. Other liquid scintillator detectors can also benefit from direction...
The Super Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (SuperCDMS) experiment is in the process of incorporating improvements in several aspects, such as experiment location, detectors, and readout electronics. With these improvements, the focus of the new phase of the experiment at SNOLAB will be Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) in the mass range below ~10 GeV/c2. In order to better...
PICO is a bubble chamber experiment for the direct detection of dark matter, and currently holds the world-leading limits in the spin-dependant WIMP (dark matter particle candidate) interaction sector. In order to search for low mass WIMPs (~ GeV scale), scattering on light target nuclei - especially protons - would substantially improve the sensitivity reach of PICO.
In this talk I will...
The PICO40L bubble chamber is a threshold detector filled with C$_3$F$_8$ located at SNOLAB and design to perform direct dark matter searches. During the construction of this detector, a very careful screening of the materials allowed the selection of materials containing low amount of neutron emitting isotopes. By using GEANT4, GDML and McCAD, a simulation of the expected neutron background...
