[Triumf-seminars] TRIUMF Particle Phys/SciTec Seminar today at 14:00

[TRIUMF Seminars]

Date/Time: Tue 2018-05-08 at 14:00

Location:  Auditorium          

Speaker:   Stefanie Langrock (SNOLAB)

Title:     Measuring the Energy Response of the DEAP-3600 Detector

Abstract: DEAP-3600 is a dark matter WIMP (Weakly Interacting Massive Particles) search experiment, which aims to detect nuclear recoils from WIMP scattering in the argon target located $2$\,km underground at SNOLAB. At WIMP masses of $100$\,GeV, DEAP-3600 has a projected sensitivity of $10^{-46}$\,cm$^{2}$ for the spin-independent elastic scattering cross section of WIMPs. The beta emissions from the intrinsic $^{39}$Ar present in the natural Ar target, as well as external calibration sources, can be used to understand the detector energy response in the energy region of interest for WIMP signals. This talk will present the techniques used to achieve an energy response model based on $^{39}$Ar and $^{22}$Na data.



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