Speaker
Dr
Simon Peeters
(University of Sussex)
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 calibration commissioning of the detector is beginning. 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 calibration systems for DEAP3600 and the status of commissioning at SNOLAB will be presented.
Primary author
Dr
Simon Peeters
(University of Sussex)