Speaker
Colin Moore
Description
The PICO collaboration operates freon-filled bubble chambers for the direct detection of dark matter, focused primarily on the spin dependent WIMP-proton regime. This session will describe the history and basics of bubble chambers as particle detectors, their role in dark matter direct detection, and the PICO-40L chamber. PICO-40L is the current generation of bubble chamber being assembled at SNOLAB in Sudbury, Canada, which is planned to begin re-commissioning in summer 2022.
