Events Calendar
MiniCLEAN Experiment
Tuesday May 3, 2016
| 2:00 pm
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Presenter: | Jui-Jen Wang (UNM) |
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| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Abstract: | The MiniCLEAN dark matter experiment will exploit a single-phase liquid-argon detector instrumented with 92 photomultiplier tubes placed in the cryogen temperature with 4-? coverage of a 500 kg (150 kg) target (fiducial) mass. The detector design strategy emphasizes scalability to target masses of order 10 tons or more. The detector is designed also for a liquid-neon target that allows for an independent verification of signal and background and a test of the expected dependence of the WIMP-nucleus interaction rate. The construction of MiniCLEAN detector has completed, the detector is on the way to cool to LAr temperature. In this talk, I will present the latest progress on detector cooling and preliminary background analysis as well. | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
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