Speaker
Prof.
Mark Boulay
(Queens University)
Description
The DEAP-3600 experiment is located at SNOLAB, 2 km underground in Sudbury, Ontario. It is a single-phase detector, which will search for dark matter particle interactions with 1 tonne fiducial mass of liquid argon target. Construction of the detector is nearly complete, and commissioning of the detector will start in mid-2014. The projected sensitivity to spin-independent scattering of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) on nucleons is 10^-46 cm2, a factor of 20 improvement in sensitivity over current searches at 100 GeV WIMP mass. The overview of the project and the status of construction at SNOLAB will be presented.
Primary author
Prof.
Mark Boulay
(Queens University)