Speaker
Colin Moore
(Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada)
Description
The PICO collaboration is currently commissioning the PICO-40L bubble chamber for use in dark matter direct detection. PICO-40L is the first large-scale implementation of the so-called “Right-Side-Up” design which inverts the detector geometry compared to previous bubble chambers. This orientation is intended to reduce the possibility of spurious backgrounds and improve upon the world-leading spin dependent WIMP-proton limit set by PICO-60. This detector also serves as a proof-of-concept for the next-generation PICO-500 detector, which is currently in the procurement phase.
The status and first results from PICO-40L will be presented.
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Author
Colin Moore
(Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada)
