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Fall 2014
Within the last few decades, experiments in particle physics have developed a need to produce radio-pure experiments. These experiments are designed to search for new physics that involves low event rates. Due to the event rates as low as 1 event/kt/year, these experiment must take precautions...
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Fall 2018
The SNO+ experiment will soon complete its commissioning and begin searching for the neutrinoless double beta decay of tellurium, loaded within its liquid scintillator. As a large-scale (780 tonne) liquid scintillator detector, SNO+ will also be well positioned to make a precision measurement of...
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Fall 2020
The PICO-60 experiment offers world leading sensitivity to the spin-dependent WIMP search, looking for the direct measurement of dark matter nuclear recoils with protons. The primary background in moderately super-heated C3F8 bubble chambers are neutrons, which can produce a signal...
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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....
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Studies on Radioactive Background Mitigation for the PICO-500 Dark Matter Search Experiment
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The PICO-500 dark matter search experiment features the next-generation bubble chamber detector designed by the PICO collaboration. The sensitivity and live-time of ultra-low background detectors, such as PICO-500, are crucially dependent on the radio-pure materials used in the construction. The...
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Fall 2021
Bubble chambers filled with fluorocarbons are a world-leading technology to search for nuclear recoils produced by spin-dependent WIMP dark matter particles. In this work, a novel bubble chamber using 28 ± 1 ml of the fluorocarbon C5F12 as target material is investigated. This superheated...
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The Pacific Ocean Neutrino Experiment: Site characterization, background studies and tau neutrino sensitivity
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The Pacific Ocean Neutrino Experiment (P-ONE) is a new neutrino telescope whose first detector phase is currently under construction. In this work, we study the properties of the site, characterize the detection elements of the first phase, and estimate the expected tau neutrino detection rates...