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DEAP-3600, with its 3.3 tonnes liquid argon target, is a dark matter direct detection experiment set at SNOLAB in Sudbury, Canada. Since 2019 the experiment has held the most stringent exclusion limit in argon for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) above 20 GeV/c^2.
Since the end of the second fill run in 2020 the detector has been upgraded, to reduce the backgrounds coming from shadowed alphas and dust dissolved in the detector in the third fill run, scheduled this year.
In parallel with that, the physics reach of the experiment has been widened, with unique contributions to the {39}^Ar activity measurements and ultra-heavy dark matter candidates, while developing a detailed Profile likelihood Ratio WIMP search on the full second run, which will push the experiment down to unprecedented sensitivity.
| Alternate track | 03. Beyond the Standard Model |
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