Conveners
M1-9 Dark matter experiment and Channel of detection I (PPD) / Expérience sur la matière sombre et canal de détection I (PPD)
- Simon Viel (Carleton University)
The current and upcoming astroparticle physics program will help understand the nature of the universe with the possible discovery of the nature of dark matter. The efforts towards greater sensitivities to the small signal induced by the very rare event direct dark matter experiments aim to detect turn into a continuous fight against radioactive background. There are various methods to reduce...
The NEWS-G collaboration aims to detect sub-GeV WIMPs using Spherical Proportional Counters (SPC). During the past 6 years, the collaboration developed a new 140 cm diameter detector. This detector - larger than the previous generation - is made from stringently selected materials for their radio-purity and is enclosed in a spherical shielding made of different layers of polyethylene and low...
DEAP-3600 is a direct dark matter search experiment located 2km underground at SNOLAB. The experiment is located at this depth to shield the sensitive detector from cosmic rays. The experiment uses a liquid argon target to search for WIMP dark matter candidates. Liquid argon is chosen as a target material for three reasons: it has a good scintillation light yield, it is transparent to its own...
