Conveners
Session IV: Session IV
- Mark Richardson (McDonald Institute)
Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) are tightly-packed arrays of single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs), biased above breakdown, that undergo a self-sustaining charge avalanche process upon absorption of an incident photon. Due to its compactness, high single-photon resolution, low-noise and ability for operation at cryogenic temperatures, the SiPM is emerging as a baseline photon sensing...
NEWS-G develops spherical proportional counters (SPCs) for low-mass dark matter detection. SPCs are spherical detectors with a sensor at the centre that can be filled with various target gases. To effectively interpret detector data, the detector needs to be calibrated using various sources of known energy. Particularly for low-mass dark matter detection, aluminium x-rays can be used as a...
This presentation will cover all large projects, experiments, and research that I have completed throughout the entire summer. I will introduce the transition which includes a summary on previous summer student contributions to the same project, how I have continued the work, and made some changes to adapt to the situation at hand and make it my own of the guide tube design. Before...
Asymmetric Dark Matter (ADM) could be trapped in the sun and other stars. In the past, two heat transport formalisms were developed to explain how this ADM could alter temperature gradients in stars, which could in turn alter key components such as neutrino flux, astero-seismological signatures, and so on. More recent articles have developed a recalibrated form of the transport formalism from...
The Scintillating Bubble Chamber (SBC) is a next generation dark matter detector that utilizes silicon photomultipliers to veto background electron recoil induced events. The silicon photomultipliers detect incoming scintillating photons, and the resulting pulses are analyzed through computational methods. Specifically, we contrasted traditional algorithmic methodologies with supervised...
