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Spring 2017

Mielnichuk, Courtney T.

DEAP-3600 (Dark Matter Experiment using Argon for Pulse shape discrimination) is a single phase dark matter experiment using a tonne-scale mass of liquid argon as a target to observe spin-independent interactions with Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs). Alpha decays from radioactive...

Fall 2023

Farahani, Sina Safarabadi

The DEAP-3600 detector is a single-phase direct-detection Dark Matter (DM) experiment located 2 km underground at SNOLAB in Sudbury, Canada. The detector consists of 3279 kg of liquid Argon contained in a spherical acrylic vessel. DEAP-3600 was specifically designed to search for direct detection...

Spring 2019

Bina, Catherine E.

Identification of, and discrimination against, background radiation is of the utmost importance in dark matter searches. DEAP-3600 (Dark Matter Experiment using Argon Pulse shape discrimination) is a single phase, direct dark matter detector with a 3300 kg liquid argon target housed in a...

Fall 2015

Singhrao, Kamal

The DEAP-3600 experiment is a 3,600 kg Liquid Argon (LAr) target scintillation detector designed to detect the Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) dark matter candidate. The detector works by detecting photons released by nuclear recoils of Argon nuclei, using an array of 255 nearly...

Fall 2018

McElroy, Thomas J.

Dark Matter is a fundamental building block and is essential for the universe to be understood on many scales. Currently, the top candidate for Dark Matter is a weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP). The DEAP-3600 experiment was built to search for rare interactions between baryonic matter...

Spring 2013

Chouinard, Rhys Timon

The Dark matter Experiment with Argon and Pulse shape discrimination (DEAP-3600) aims to detect the interactions of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles colliding with the nuclei of argon atoms. As particles interact with the argon in the DEAP-3600 vessel, scintillation light is emitted and...