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24–27 Mar 2025
UCLA Physics and Astronomy Building 1-425
US/Pacific timezone

Progress of the PICO-500 Detector installation

26 Mar 2025, 17:15
15m
UCLA Physics and Astronomy Building 1-425

UCLA Physics and Astronomy Building 1-425

475 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095 darkmatter@physics.ucla.edu

Speaker

Carsten Krauss (University of Alberta)

Description

The bubble chamber approach of looking for spin dependent interactions between fluorine and dark matter has been quite impactful so far. The PICO collaboration is in the process of deploying PICO-500, a large 250 litre chamber filled with C3F8 at SNOLAB with an scheduled start of commissioning in late 2026. We will report on the design progress and the production aspects of the quality control and installation status of this new chamber at SNOLAB.

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