Speaker
Ms
Jing Zhou
(The University of Chicago)
Description
DAMIC (Dark Matter in CCDs) is a dark matter search experiment running in SNOLAB, Canada. Results of the first run of DAMIC at SNOLAB will be discussed, with particular emphasis on its demonstrated sub-keVr threshold and characterization of the measured radioactive backgrounds. Comparisons to a MCNP-based detector simulation will be presented. These results suggest that a 100 g version of DAMIC at SNOLAB, with its low-threshold, event characterization and in-situ measurement of radioactive backgrounds, is well-suited to probe the low mass WIMP region of the potential CDMS-Si and CoGeNT signals.
Summary
DAMIC (Dark Matter in CCDs) is a dark matter search experiment running in SNOLAB, Canada. Results of the first run of DAMIC at SNOLAB will be discussed, with particular emphasis on its demonstrated sub-keVr threshold and characterization of the measured radioactive backgrounds. Comparisons to a MCNP-based detector simulation will be presented. These results suggest that a 100 g version of DAMIC at SNOLAB, with its low-threshold, event characterization and in-situ measurement of radioactive backgrounds, is well-suited to probe the low mass WIMP region of the potential CDMS-Si and CoGeNT signals.
Primary author
Ms
Jing Zhou
(The University of Chicago)
Co-author
Mr
Alvaro Chavarria
(Kavli Institute of Cosmological Physics)
