Speaker
Mr
Clarke Hardy
(Queen's University)
Description
The PICO experiment aims to detect nuclear recoils caused by interactions with WIMP dark matter using bubble chambers with superheated $\textrm{C}_{3}\textrm{F}_{8}$. PICO-40L is a detector with a 40-litre active volume currently being installed at SNOLAB, while PICO-500 is a ton-scale detector in the design phase. This talk discusses the physics reach of both detectors, including the discovery limit in the context of known backgrounds, the detection floor imposed by coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering, and the potential sensitivity to annual modulations in a dark matter signal.
Author
Mr
Clarke Hardy
(Queen's University)
