UCLA Dark Matter 2020 Conference

Status of the PICO-40L Experiment

27 Mar 2020, 12:15

15m

PAB- 1-425 (UCLA)

Talk Non-directional direct dark matter detection Session 12

Speaker

Carsten Krauss (University of Alberta)

Description

PICO-40L is the most advanced bubble chamber using about 50kg of a fluorine rich target material. The detector has a new chamber concept without buffer fluid, eliminating the backgrounds associated with the water in contact with the active liquid in previous PICO bubble chambers. We will report the status of the commissioning and give a first indication of the background rates in the chamber.