Speaker
Amanda Depoian
(Purdue University)
Description
XENON1T is a liquid xenon time projection chamber (TPC) designed to look for elastic recoils of dark matter particles with xenon nuclei. To increase the sensitivity of the experiment, we need to decrease the background in the detector. One background that is specific to low-energy recoils comes from so called single electrons trains that follow interactions in the TPC over time scales of hundreds of milliseconds. To mitigate this background, we first need to understand where it comes from. This talk will discuss different theories for these electron trains and how I test these ideas through analysis of XENON1T data.
Author
Amanda Depoian
(Purdue University)
