Speaker
Carsten Krauss
(University of Alberta)
Description
PICO employs the unique sensitivity of fluorine based refrigerants such as C3F8 to axial-vector couplings with WIMPS. Currently the PICO collaboration is operating two bubble chambers filled with C3F8 at SNOLAB. A small bubble chamber, PICO 2L, is used to study effects of contamination of the superheated active liquid. The PICO 60, a large bubble chamber with 60kg active mass is currently in its second run aiming to ultimately reach a cross section sensitivity of 2x10-41 cm2 for interactions between WIMPs and protons. This paper will present the latest results of these two detectors and describe the future plans for PICO.
Primary author
Carsten Krauss
(University of Alberta)
Co-authors
Alan Robinson
(University of Chicago)
Andrew Sonnenschein
(Fermilab)
Arthur Plante
Chanpreet Amole
(Queen's University)
Christopher Jackson
(Université de Montréal)
Daniel Baxter
(Northwestern University)
Eric Dahl
(Northwestern University)
Eric Vazquez-Jauregui
(UNAM)
Guillaume Giroux
(Queen's University)
Hugh Lippincott
(FNAL)
Ian Lawson
(SNOLAB)
Ilan Levine
(Indiana University South Bend)
Ivan Felis
(Universidad Politécnica de Valencia)
Ivan Stekl
(Czech Technical University in Prague)
Jacques Farine
(Laurentian University)
Jean-Pierre Martin
(Unknown)
Jeter Hall
(PNNL)
Juan Collar Colmenero
Ken Clark
(University of Toronto)
Mala Das
(Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics)
Manuel Bou Cabo
(Upv)
Mark Keener Ruschman
(Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (Fermilab))
Mathieu Laurin
(Université de Montréal)
Miguel Ardid
(UPV)
Orin Harris
(Indiana University South Bend)
Peter Cooper
(Fermilab)
Pitam Mitra
(University of Alberta)
Robert Filgas
(Czech Technical University in Prague)
Russell Neilson
(Drexel University)
Scott Fallows
(University of Alberta)
Stanislav Pospisil
(Czech Technical University (CZ))
Steve Brice
(Fermilab)
Tony Noble
(Queen's University)
Ubi Wichoski
(Laurentian University)
Viktor Zacek
(Université de Montreal)
david asner
(Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
