Speaker
Tom Caldwell
(University of Pennsylvania)
Description
Single-phase liquid argon detectors offer a technically simple approach towards a very massive detector for the direct detection of dark matter with potential to extend sensitivity into the “background floor” imposed by the coherent scattering of extraterrestrial neutrinos. MiniCLEAN, with a target mass of 500 kg, serves as a prototype to demonstrate this approach. Event energy and position are reconstructed in three dimensions and a powerful means of pulse-shape discrimination separates nuclear recoil events from electromagnetic background. The MiniCLEAN experiment is now being commissioned at the 6800 foot level in SNOLAB’s Cube Hall. We will provide a status report and plans for the MiniCLEAN experiment.
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Primary author
Tom Caldwell
(University of Pennsylvania)
