Conveners
Session 6
- Matthew Stukel (Queen's University)
- Leon Pickard
Description
10+3 talks
11:00pm ET Tuesday
The PICO detector generates acoustic signals from the bubble nucleation caused by incident particles, such as alphas, neutrons, gammas, and potentially WIMPs. These signals contain properties that can be used to distinguish among different particles. The acoustic parameter (AP) is one such tool, it measures the magnitude of the acoustic signals at different frequencies, and can distinguish...
The nEXO experiment pursues the goal of observing or verifying neutrinoless double beta decay by placing 5000kg of liquid xenon enriched to 136Xe within a cryostat, and limiting backgrounds as much as possible. To limit the cosmogenic backgrounds, the cryostat is immersed in a large water tank several kilometres underground. Despite these efforts, cosmic muons can still cause reasonable...
Every year the PHYS 350 students design and run an experiment themselves. It is usually disassembled soon after, but this year, we wanted to give the second-year students a look at what they could be doing in their next year, as well as providing them a chance to do an astronomy-based experiment in PHYS 250. We choose an experiment on measuring the mass of the Milky Way that published their...
The main purpose of building a particle detector underground is to minimize cosmic ray induced backgrounds, however, even the low flux of residual cosmic rays can constitute an appreciable source. The high sensitivity required to detect rare nuclear decay events or other sought after interactions can exaggerate these effects. Through-going cosmogenic muons contribute to background sources for...
