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Fall 2023
Bubble chambers using fluorocarbons or noble liquids gases are promising tools for detecting low-energy nuclear recoils caused by the elastic scattering of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), a type of dark matter. These chambers comprise a vessel filled with a superheated liquid, which...
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Development of a Prototype for a Low Dead Time Dark Matter Detector using Superheated Liquid
DownloadFall 2013
PICASSO (Project in Canada to Search for Supersymmetric Objects) is a direct dark matter search experiment located at SNOLAB. PICASSO uses su- perheated Freon-10 (C4 F10 ) as target for elastic scattering of Weakly Interact- ing Massive Particles (WIMPs) which are the most favored particle...
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Effects of the Large Magellanic Cloud on the Local Dark Matter Distribution in the Milky Way: Insights from the Auriga Simulation
DownloadSpring 2024
This thesis investigates the Large Magellanic Cloud's (LMC) influence on the Milky Way's local dark matter distribution, focusing on implications for dark matter direct detection. Using state-of-the-art Auriga magneto-hydrodynamical simulations with an LMC-like system, we study the dark matter...
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Improvements to the resolution and efficiency of the DEAP-3600 dark matter detector and their effects on background studies
DownloadFall 2010
The Dark matter Experiment using Argon Pulse-shape discrimination will be a tonne scale liquid argon experiment to detect scintillation light produced by interactions with weakly interacting massive particles, leading dark matter candidates. The detector will be constructed out of acrylic and use...
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PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF SIGNAL CONDITIONING BOARDS AND SIMULATION OF THE IMPACT OF ELECTRONICS NOISE ON THE DEAP-3600 DARK MATTER DETECTOR
DownloadSpring 2013
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...
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Spring 2018
The PICO-60 experiment was a bubble chamber for the search of Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) dark matter. The previous run of PICO-60, conducted in 2013, was limited in sensitivity by background events that were most likely caused by particulate contamination and the buffer liquid....