The PICASSO Dark Matter Physics Program at SNOLAB
Abstract
PICASSO is a dark matter search experiment currently operational at the SNOLAB International Facility for Astroparticle Physics, located 2 km underground in Sudbury, Canada. PICASSO is based on the superheated bubble technique. With good control of radiological backgrounds and a detector design that stabilizes the superheated liquid even when very close to the critical temperature, PICASSO has achieved very low nuclear recoil thresholds. This allowed the experiment to produce world-leading results with particular sensitivity to low mass WIMP signals in both spin-dependent and spin-independent interactions. The 2012 results and the future plans of the PICASSO collaboration are presented.
- Publication:
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International Cosmic Ray Conference
- Pub Date:
- 2013
- Bibcode:
- 2013ICRC...33..896N
- Keywords:
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- Dark Matter;
- Superheated Droplet Detector;
- Bubble Detector;
- Spin Dependent;
- PICASSO;
- SNOLAB