The DEAP/CLEAN Dark Matter Search
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of North Carolina, Phillips Hall, CB 3255, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3255 (United States)
The DEAP/CLEAN collaboration is constructing the latest generation of a series of single-phase noble-liquid dark matter experiments. The MiniCLEAN detector is expected to obtain a sensitivity to the spin-independent WIMP-nucleon cross-section in the neighborhood of 10{sup -45}cm{sup 2} for M{sub WIMP}{approx_equal}100GeV. The detector will have the ability to utilize LAr or LNe as a target, which in the event of a positive signal will allow the expected A{sup 2} dependence in cross section to be probed, as well as produce very different intrinsic background characteristics.In addition to the status of the MiniCLEAN detector, data from DEAP-1, a 7 kg liquid argon detector currently running at SNOLAB, is presented here, including its demonstrated background rejection power.
- OSTI ID:
- 21325625
- Journal Information:
- AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1182, Issue 1; Conference: 10. conference on the intersections of particle and nuclear physics, San Diego, CA (United States), 26-31 May 2009; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.3293796; (c) 2009 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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