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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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Spring 2013
The objective of this work was to simulate the PICASSO experiment and to study the detector response to neutron irradiation. The results of the sim- ulation show the rock neutron rate to be 1-2 neutrons/day for the setup used until 2009 and less than 0.1 neutrons/day for the setup used after...