Simulation of Special Bubble Detectors for PICASSO
Abstract
The PICASSO project is a cold dark matter (CDM) search experiment relying on the superheated droplet technique. The detectors use superheated freon liquid droplets (active material) dispersed and trapped in a polymerized gel. This detection technique is based on the phase transition of superheated droplets at about room temperature and ambient pressure. The phase transition is induced by nuclear recoils when an atomic nucleus in the droplets interacts with incoming subatomic particles. This includes CDM particles candidate as the neutralino (a yet-to-discover particle predicted in extensions of the Standard Model of particle physics). Simulations performed to understand the detector response to neutrons and alpha particles are presented along with corresponding data obtained at the Montreal Laboratory.
Cite
@article{arxiv.physics/0408126,
title = {Simulation of Special Bubble Detectors for PICASSO},
author = {The PICASSO Collaboration and G. Azuelos and M. Barnabe-Heider and E. Behnke and K. Clark and M. Di Marco and P. Doane and W. Feighery and M-H. Genest and R. Gornea and R. Guenette and S. Kanagalingam and C. Krauss and C. Leroy and L. Lessard and I. Levine and J. P. Martin and A. J. Noble and R. Noulty and S. N. Shore and U. Wichoski and V . Zacek},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0408126},
year = {2015}
}
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13 pages, 4 figures. To appear in the Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Solid State Dosimetry, June 27 - July 2 2004, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA