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The DEAP-3600 Dark Matter Experiment

The DEAP-3600 experiment uses 3.6 tons of liquid argon for a sensitive dark matter search, with a sensitivity to the spin-independent WIMP-nucleon cross-section of $10^{-46}$ cm$^2$ at 100 GeV WIMP mass. This high sensitivity is achievable…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Bei Cai

Relative Measurement and Extrapolation of the Scintillation Quenching Factor of $\alpha$-Particles in Liquid Argon using DEAP-3600 Data

The knowledge of scintillation quenching of $\alpha$-particles plays a paramount role in understanding $\alpha$-induced backgrounds and improving the sensitivity of liquid argon-based direct detection of dark matter experiments. We…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-10-13 DEAP Collaboration , P. Adhikari , M. Alpízar-Venegas , P. -A. Amaudruz , J. Anstey , D. J. Auty , M. Batygov , B. Beltran , C. E. Bina , W. Bonivento , M. G. Boulay , J. F. Bueno , B. Cai , M. Cárdenas-Montes , S. Choudhary , B. T. Cleveland , R. Crampton , S. Daugherty , P. DelGobbo , P. Di Stefano , G. Dolganov , L. Doria , F. A. Duncan , M. Dunford , E. Ellingwood , A. Erlandson , S. S. Farahani , N. Fatemighomi , G. Fiorillo , R. J. Ford , D. Gahan , D. Gallacher , P. García Abia , S. Garg , P. Giampa , A. Giménez-Alcázar , D. Goeldi , P. Gorel , K. Graham , A. L. Hallin , M. Hamstra , S. Haskins , J. Hu , J. Hucker , T. Hugues , A. Ilyasov , B. Jigmeddorj , C. J. Jillings , G. Kaur , M. Khoshraftar Yazdi , A. Kemp , M. Kuźniak , F. La Zia , M. Lai , S. Langrock , B. Lehnert , N. Levashko , M. Lissia , L. Luzzi , I. Machulin , A. Maru , J. Mason , A. B. McDonald , T. McElroy , J. B. McLaughlin , C. Mielnichuk , L. Mirasola , A. Moharana , J. Monroe , A. Murray , C. Ng , G. Oliviéro , M. Olszewski , S. Pal , D. Papi , B. Park , M. Perry , V. Pesudo , T. R. Pollmann , F. Rad , C. Rethmeier , F. Retière , L. Roszkowski , R. Santorelli , F. G. Schuckman , S. Seth , V. Shalamova , P. Skensved , T. Smirnova , K. Sobotkiewich , T. Sonley , J. Sosiak , J. Soukup , R. Stainforth , M. Stringer , J. Tang , E. Vázquez-Jáuregui , S. Viel , B. Vyas , M. Walczak , J. Walding , M. Ward , S. Westerdale , R. Wormington

Dark Matter Search with the DEAP-3600 Detector using the Profile Likelihood Ratio Method

We present here a search for WIMP dark matter using 790.8 live-days of data collected with 3269 kg of liquid argon (1266 kg fiducial) by the DEAP-3600 detector at SNOLAB, using the Profile Likelihood Ratio method. The likelihood model is…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-03-17 DEAP Collaboration , P. Adhikari , R. Ajaj , M. Alpízar-Venegas , P. -A. Amaudruz , J. Anstey , D. J. Auty , M. Baldwin , M. Batygov , B. Beltran , A. Bigentini , C. E. Bina , W. Bonivento , M. G. Boulay , J. F. Bueno , P. M. Burghardt , A. Butcher , M. Cadeddu , B. Cai , M. Cárdenas-Montes , S. Cavuoti , Y. Chen , S. Choudhary , B. T. Cleveland , R. Crampton , S. Daugherty , P. DelGobbo , P. Di Stefano , G. Dolganov , L. Doria , F. A. Duncan , M. Dunford , E. Ellingwood , A. Erlandson , S. S. Farahani , N. Fatemighomi , G. Fiorillo , R. J. Ford , D. Gahan , D. Gallacher , A. Garai , P. García Abia , S. Garg , P. Giampa , A. Giménez-Alcázar , D. Goeldi , P. Gorel , K. Graham , A. Grobov , A. L. Hallin , M. Hamstra , S. Haskins , J. Hu , J. Hucker , D. Huff , T. Hugues , A. Ilyasov , B. Jigmeddorj , C. J. Jillings , A. Joy , G. Kaur , A. Kemp , M. Khoshraftar Yazdi , M. Kuźniak , F. La Zia , M. Lai , S. Langrock , B. Lehnert , J. LePage-Bourbonnais , M. Lissia , L. Luzzi , I. Machulin , P. Majewski , A. Maru , J. Mason , A. B. McDonald , T. McElroy , J. B. McLaughlin , C. Mielnichuk , L. Mirasola , A. Moharana , J. Monroe , A. Murray , M. Needs , C. Ng , G. Oliviéro , M. Olszewski , S. Pal , D. Papi , B. Park , M. Perry , V. Pesudo , T. R. Pollmann , F. Rad , C. Rethmeier , F. Retière , I. Rodríguez García , L. Roszkowski , R. Santorelli , F. G. Schuckman , N. Seeburn , S. Seth , V. Shalamova , P. Skensved , T. Smirnova , N. J. T. Smith , K. Sobotkiewich , T. Sonley , J. Sosiak , J. Soukup , R. Stainforth , M. Stringer , J. Tang , P. Taylor , R. Turcotte-Tardif , E. Vázquez-Jáuregui , G. Vera Díaz , S. Viel , B. Vyas , M. Walczak , J. Walding , M. Ward , S. Westerdale , R. Wormington , A. Zuñiga-Reyes

Temperature dependence of alpha-induced scintillation in the 1,1,4,4-tetraphenyl-1,3-butadiene wavelength shifter

Liquid noble based particle detectors often use the organic wavelength shifter 1,1,4,4- tetraphenyl-1,3-butadiene (TPB) which shifts UV scintillation light to the visible regime, facilitating its detection, but which also can scintillate on…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-08 L. M. Veloce , M. Kuźniak , P. C. F. Di Stefano , A. J. Noble , M. G. Boulay , P. Nadeau , T. Pollmann , M. Clark , M. Piquemal , K. Schreiner

Development of a high-light-yield liquid argon detector using tetraphenyl butadiene and silicon photomultiplier array

To increase the light yield of a liquid Ar (LAr) detector, we optimized the evaporation technique of tetraphenyl butadiene (TPB) on the detector surface and tested the operability of a silicon photomultiplier (SiPM), namely, the multi-pixel…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-05-04 Kazutaka Aoyama , Masashi Tanaka , Masato Kimura , Kohei Yorita

Study of the energy calibration of the DEAP-3600 detector using $^{22}\mathrm{Na}$ source data and simulations

DEAP-3600 is a single-phase liquid argon (LAr) direct-detection dark matter experiment operating 2 km underground at SNOLAB (Sudbury, Canada). The detector consists of 3.3 tons of LAr contained in a spherical acrylic vessel. At a WIMP mass…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-05-12 Ludovico Luzzi

Design and Construction of the DEAP-3600 Dark Matter Detector

The Dark matter Experiment using Argon Pulse-shape discrimination (DEAP) has been designed for a direct detection search for particle dark matter using a single-phase liquid argon target. The projected cross section sensitivity for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-19 P. -A. Amaudruz , M. Baldwin , M. Batygov , B. Beltran , C. E. Bina , D. Bishop , J. Bonatt , G. Boorman , M. G. Boulay , B. Broerman , T. Bromwich , J. F. Bueno , P. M. Burghardt , A. Butcher , B. Cai , S. Chan , M. Chen , R. Chouinard , S. Churchwell , B. T. Cleveland , D. Cranshaw , K. Dering , J. DiGioseffo , S. Dittmeier , F. A. Duncan , M. Dunford , A. Erlandson , N. Fatemighomi , S. Florian , A. Flower , R. J. Ford , R. Gagnon , P. Giampa , V. V. Golovko , P. Gorel , R. Gornea , E. Grace , K. Graham , D. R. Grant , E. Gulyev , A. Hall , A. L. Hallin , M. Hamstra , P. J. Harvey , C. Hearns , C. J. Jillings , O. Kamaev , A. Kemp , M. Kuźniak , S. Langrock , F. La Zia , B. Lehnert , O. Li , J. J. Lidgard , P. Liimatainen , C. Lim , T. Lindner , Y. Linn , S. Liu , P. Majewski , R. Mathew , A. B. McDonald , T. McElroy , K. McFarlane , T. McGinn , J. B. McLaughlin , S. Mead , R. Mehdiyev , C. Mielnichuk , J. Monroe , A. Muir , P. Nadeau , C. Nantais , C. Ng , A. J. Noble , E. O'Dwyer , C. Ohlmann , K. Olchanski , K. S. Olsen , C. Ouellet , P. Pasuthip , S. J. M. Peeters , T. R. Pollmann , E. T. Rand , W. Rau , C. Rethmeier , F. Retière , N. Seeburn , B. Shaw , K. Singhrao , P. Skensved , B. Smith , N. J. T. Smith , T. Sonley , J. Soukup , R. Stainforth , C. Stone , V. Strickland , B. Sur , J. Tang , J. Taylor , L. Veloce , E. Vázquez-Jáuregui , J. Walding , M. Ward , S. Westerdale , R. White , E. Woolsey , J. Zielinski

Position Reconstruction in the DEAP-3600 Dark Matter Search Experiment

In the DEAP-3600 dark matter search experiment, precise reconstruction of the positions of scattering events in liquid argon is key for background rejection and defining a fiducial volume that enhances dark matter candidate events…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-10-13 The DEAP Collaboration , P. Adhikari , R. Ajaj , M. Alpízar-Venegas , P. -A. Amaudruz , J. Anstey , G. R. Araujo , D. J. Auty , M. Baldwin , M. Batygov , B. Beltran , H. Benmansour , M. A. Bigentini , C. E. Bina , J. Bonatt , W. M. Bonivento , M. G. Boulay , B. Broerman , J. F. Bueno , P. M. Burghardt , A. Butcher , M. Cadeddu , B. Cai , M. Cárdenas-Montes , S. Cavuoti , M. Chen , Y. Chen , S. Choudhary , B. T. Cleveland , J. M. Corning , R. Crampton , D. Cranshaw , S. Daugherty , P. DelGobbo , K. Dering , P. Di Stefano , J. DiGioseffo , G. Dolganov , L. Doria , F. A. Duncan , M. Dunford , E. Ellingwood , A. Erlandson , S. S. Farahani , N. Fatemighomi , G. Fiorillo , S. Florian , A. Flower , R. J. Ford , R. Gagnon , D. Gahan , D. Gallacher , A. Garai , P. García Abia , S. Garg , P. Giampa , A. Giménez-Alcázar , D. Goeldi , V. V. Golovko , P. Gorel , K. Graham , D. R. Grant , A. Grobov , A. L. Hallin , M. Hamstra , P. J. Harvey , S. Haskins , C. Hearns , J. Hu , J. Hucker , T. Hugues , A. Ilyasov , B. Jigmeddorj , C. J. Jillings , A. Joy , O. Kamaev , G. Kaur , A. Kemp , M. Khoshraftar Yazdi , M. Kuźniak , F. La Zia , M. Lai , S. Langrock , B. Lehnert , A. Leonhardt , J. LePage-Bourbonnais , N. Levashko , J. Lidgard , T. Lindner , M. Lissia , J. Lock , L. Luzzi , I. Machulin , P. Majewski , A. Maru , J. Mason , A. B. McDonald , T. McElroy , T. McGinn , J. B. McLaughlin , R. Mehdiyev , C. Mielnichuk , L. Mirasola , A. Moharana , J. Monroe , A. Murray , P. Nadeau , C. Nantais , C. Ng , A. J. Noble , E. O'Dwyer , G. Oliviéro , M. Olszewski , C. Ouellet , S. Pal , D. Papi , B. Park , P. Pasuthip , S. J. M. Peeters , M. Perry , V. Pesudo , E. Picciau , M. -C. Piro , T. R. Pollmann , F. Rad , E. T. Rand , C. Rethmeier , F. Retière , I. Rodríguez García , L. Roszkowski , J. B. Ruhland , R. Santorelli , F. G. Schuckman , N. Seeburn , S. Seth , V. Shalamova , K. Singhrao , P. Skensved , T. Smirnova , N. J. T. Smith , B. Smith , K. Sobotkiewich , T. Sonley , J. Sosiak , J. Soukup , R. Stainforth , G. Stanic , C. Stone , V. Strickland , M. Stringer , B. Sur , J. Tang , R. Turcotte-Tardif , E. Vázquez-Jáuregui , L. Veloce , S. Viel , B. Vyas , M. Walczak , J. Walding , M. Waqar , M. Ward , S. Westerdale , J. Willis , R. Wormington , A. Zuñiga-Reyes

Pushing the Limits of Pulse Shape Discrimination in a Large Liquid Xenon Detector

The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment is a direct-detection dark matter experiment, optimized to search for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) through WIMP-nucleon interactions. The main challenge in dark matter detection is…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-03-31 D. S. Akerib , A. K. Al Musalhi , F. Alder , B. J. Almquist , C. S. Amarasinghe , A. Ames , T. J. Anderson , N. Angelides , H. M. Araújo , J. E. Armstrong , M. Arthurs , A. Baker , S. Balashov , J. Bang , J. W. Bargemann , E. E. Barillier , K. Beattie , A. Bhatti , T. P. Biesiadzinski , H. J. Birch , E. Bishop , G. M. Blockinger , C. A. J. Brew , P. Brás , S. Burdin , M. C. Carmona-Benitez , M. Carter , A. Chawla , H. Chen , Y. T. Chin , N. I. Chott , S. Contreras , M. V. Converse , R. Coronel , A. Cottle , G. Cox , D. Curran , C. E. Dahl , I. Darlington , S. Dave , A. David , J. Delgaudio , S. Dey , L. de Viveiros , L. Di Felice , C. Ding , J. E. Y. Dobson , E. Druszkiewicz , S. Dubey , C. L. Dunbar , S. R. Eriksen , N. M. Fearon , N. Fieldhouse , S. Fiorucci , H. Flaecher , E. D. Fraser , T. M. A. Fruth , P. W. Gaemers , R. J. Gaitskell , A. Geffre , J. Genovesi , C. Ghag , J. Ghamsari , A. Ghosh , S. Ghosh , R. Gibbons , S. Gokhale , J. Green , M. G. D. van der Grinten , J. J. Haiston , C. R. Hall , T. Hall , R. H. Hampp , S. J. Haselschwardt , M. A. Hernandez , S. A. Hertel , G. J. Homenides , M. Horn , D. Q. Huang , D. Hunt , E. Jacquet , R. S. James , K. Jenkins , A. C. Kaboth , A. C. Kamaha , M. K. Kannichankandy , D. Khaitan , A. Khazov , J. Kim , Y. D. Kim , D. Kodroff , E. V. Korolkova , H. Kraus , S. Kravitz , L. Kreczko , V. A. Kudryavtsev , C. Lawes , E. B. Leon , D. S. Leonard , K. T. Lesko , C. Levy , J. Lin , A. Lindote , W. H. Lippincott , J. Long , M. I. Lopes , W. Lorenzon , C. Lu , S. Luitz , W. Ma , V. Mahajan , P. A. Majewski , A. Manalaysay , R. L. Mannino , R. J. Matheson , C. Maupin , M. E. McCarthy , D. N. McKinsey , J. McLaughlin , J. B. McLaughlin , R. McMonigle , B. Mitra , E. Mizrachi , M. E. Monzani , K. Morå , E. Morrison , B. J. Mount , M. Murdy , A. St. J. Murphy , H. N. Nelson , F. Neves , A. Nguyen , C. L. O'Brien , F. H. O'Shea , I. Olcina , K. C. Oliver-Mallory , J. Orpwood , K. Y. Oyulmaz , K. J. Palladino , N. J. Pannifer , S. J. Patton , B. Penning , G. Pereira , E. Perry , T. Pershing , A. Piepke , S. S. Poudel , Y. Qie , J. Reichenbacher , C. A. Rhyne , G. R. C. Rischbieter , E. Ritchey , H. S. Riyat , R. Rosero , N. J. Rowe , T. Rushton , D. Rynders , S. Saltão , D. Santone , A. B. M. R. Sazzad , R. W. Schnee , G. Sehr , B. Shafer , S. Shaw , W. Sherman , K. Shi , T. Shutt , C. Silva , G. Sinev , J. Siniscalco , A. M. Slivar , A. M. Softley-Brown , V. N. Solovov , P. Sorensen , J. Soria , T. J. Sumner , A. Swain , M. Szydagis , D. R. Tiedt , D. R. Tovey , J. Tranter , M. Trask , K. Trengove , M. Tripathi , A. Usón , A. C. Vaitkus , O. Valentino , V. Velan , A. Wang , J. J. Wang , Y. Wang , L. Weeldreyer , T. J. Whitis , K. Wild , M. Williams , J. Winnicki , L. Wolf , F. L. H. Wolfs , S. Woodford , D. Woodward , C. J. Wright , Q. Xia , J. Xu , Y. Xu , M. Yeh , D. Yeum , J. Young , W. Zha , H. Zhang , T. Zhang , Y. Zhou

Review of Liquid Argon Detector Technologies in the Neutrino Sector

Liquid Argon (LAr) is one of the most widely used scintillators in particle detection, due to its low cost, high availability and excellent scintillation properties. A large number of experiments in the neutrino sector are based around…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-03-12 Krishanu Majumdar , Konstantinos Mavrokoridis

Recent results from DEAP-3600

DEAP-3600 is the largest running dark matter detector filled with liquid argon, set at SNOLAB, in Sudbury, Canada, 2 km underground. The experiment holds the most stringent exclusion limit in argon for WIMPs above 20 GeV/c$^2$. In the most…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-03-01 Michela Lai

Scintillation-only Based Pulse Shape Discrimination for Nuclear and Electron Recoils in Liquid Xenon

In a dedicated test setup at the Kamioka Observatory we studied pulse shape discrimination (PSD) in liquid xenon (LXe) for dark matter searches. PSD in LXe was based on the observation that scintillation light from electron events was…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-05-28 K. Ueshima , K. Abe , K. Hiraide , S. Hirano , Y. Kishimoto , K. Kobayashi , Y. Koshio , J. Liu , K. Martens , S. Moriyama , M. Nakahata , H. Nishiie , H. Ogawa , H. Sekiya , A. Shinozaki , Y. Suzuki , A. Takeda , M. Yamashita , K. Fujii , I. Murayama , S. Nakamura , K. Otsuka , Y. Takeuchi , Y. Fukuda , K. Nishijima , D. Motoki , Y. Itow , K. Masuda , Y. Nishitani , H. Uchida , S. Tasaka , H. Ohsumi , Y. D. Kim , Y. H. Kim , K. B. Lee , M. K. Lee , J. S. Lee the XMASS Collaboration

Pulse-shape discrimination and energy resolution of a liquid-argon scintillator with xenon doping

Liquid-argon scintillation detectors are used in fundamental physics experiments and are being considered for security applications. Previous studies have suggested that the addition of small amounts of xenon dopant improves performance in…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-06-23 Christopher G. Wahl , Ethan P. Bernard , W. Hugh Lippincott , James A. Nikkel , Yunchang Shin , Daniel N. McKinsey

Position reconstruction using photon timing for the DEAP-3600 dark matter experiment

DEAP-3600 is a single-phase liquid argon dark matter detector being operated 2 km underground at SNOLAB, Sudbury, Canada. The detector consists of 3.3 tonnes of ultra-pure liquid argon in a spherical acrylic cryostat instrumented with 255…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-06-17 Yu Chen

Analysis of signal waveform from a midsize liquid argon detetor

The midsize single-phase liquid argon prototype detector, operating at the surface laboratory, is designed to measure scintillation light emitted by the liquid argon (LAr). The detector employs 42 8-inch photomultiplier tubes (PMT) to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-08-22 K. K. Zhao , M. Y. Guan , J. C. Liu , C. G. Yang , S. T. Lin

Scintillation and optical properties of xenon-doped liquid argon

Liquid argon (LAr) is a common choice as detection medium in particle physics and rare-event searches. Challenges of LAr scintillation light detection include its short emission wavelength, long scintillation time and short attenuation…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-01-26 C. Vogl , M. Schwarz , X. Stribl , J. Grießing , P. Krause , S. Schönert

Pulse shape study of the fast scintillation light emitted from xenon-doped liquid argon using silicon photomultipliers

Xenon-doped liquid argon has been proposed as a good alternative to pure liquid argon in scintillation detectors. In this study, we report on the measurement of the time profile of scintillation light emitted from xenon-doped liquid argon…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-02-23 Cristiano Galbiati , Xinran Li , Jingyu Luo , Daniel R. Marlow , Hanguo Wang , Yi Wang

SBC-SNOLAB scintillation system and SiPM implementation for dark matter searches

The Scintillating Bubble Chamber (SBC) collaboration is constructing a 10~kg liquid argon (LAr) bubble chamber at SNOLAB called SBC-SNOLAB having the main objective of detecting dark matter. One of the most novel aspects of SBC-SNOLAB is…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-01-23 H. Hawley-Herrera

LArGe - Active background suppression using argon scintillation for the GERDA $0\nu\beta\beta$-experiment

LArGe is a GERDA low-background test facility to study novel background suppression methods in a low-background environment, for future application in the GERDA experiment. Similar to GERDA, LArGe operates bare germanium detectors submersed…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-12 M. Agostini , M. Barnabé-Heider , D. Budjáš , C. Cattadori , A. Gangapshev , K. Gusev , M. Heisel , M. Junker , A. Klimenko , A. Lubashevskiy , K. Pelczar , S. Schönert , A. Smolnikov , G. Zuzel

R&D of Wavelength-Shifting Reflectors and Characterization of the Quantum Efficiency of Tetraphenyl Butadiene and Polyethylene Naphthalate in Liquid Argon

Detectors based on liquid argon (LAr) often require surfaces that can shift vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) light and reflect the visible shifted light. For the LAr instrumentation of the LEGEND-200 neutrinoless double beta decay experiment,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-05-17 G. R. Araujo , L. Baudis , N. McFadden , P. Krause , S. Schönert , V. H. S. Wu