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most citedSearch for dark matter with a 231-day exposure of liquid argon using DEAP-3600 at SNOLAB

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physics.ins-det2025★ 2 cited

Position Reconstruction in the DEAP-3600 Dark Matter Search Experiment

The DEAP Collaboration, P. Adhikari, R. Ajaj +162

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…

physics.ins-det2023★ 14 cited

Precision Measurement of the Specific Activity of Ar in Atmospheric Argon with the DEAP-3600 Detector

P. Adhikari, R. Ajaj, M. Alpízar-Venegas +147

The specific activity of the beta decay of Ar in atmospheric argon is measured using the DEAP-3600 detector. DEAP-3600, located 2 km underground at SNOLAB, uses a total of (…

physics.ins-det2021★ 35 cited

Pulseshape discrimination against low-energy Ar-39 beta decays in liquid argon with 4.5 tonne-years of DEAP-3600 data

The DEAP Collaboration, P. Adhikari, R. Ajaj +126

The DEAP-3600 detector searches for the scintillation signal from dark matter particles scattering on a 3.3 tonne liquid argon target. The largest background comes from Ar b…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 172 cited

Search for dark matter with a 231-day exposure of liquid argon using DEAP-3600 at SNOLAB

R. Ajaj, P. -A. Amaudruz, G. R. Araujo +99

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 3279 kg of…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 103 cited

Design and Construction of the DEAP-3600 Dark Matter Detector

P. -A. Amaudruz, M. Baldwin, M. Batygov +106

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…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 102 cited

First results from the DEAP-3600 dark matter search with argon at SNOLAB

3600 Collaboration, P. -A. Amaudruz, M. Baldwin +102

This paper reports the first results of a direct dark matter search with the DEAP-3600 single-phase liquid argon (LAr) detector. The experiment was performed 2 km underground at SN…

physics.ins-det2014★ 18 cited

Improving Photoelectron Counting and Particle Identification in Scintillation Detectors with Bayesian Techniques

M. Akashi-Ronquest, P. -A. Amaudruz, M. Batygov +79

Many current and future dark matter and neutrino detectors are designed to measure scintillation light with a large array of photomultiplier tubes (PMTs). The energy resolution and…

astro-ph.IM2012★ 26 cited

Radon backgrounds in the DEAP-1 liquid-argon-based Dark Matter detector

P. -A. Amaudruz, M. Batygov, B. Beltran +49

The DEAP-1 \SI{7}{kg} single phase liquid argon scintillation detector was operated underground at SNOLAB in order to test the techniques and measure the backgrounds inherent to si…

astro-ph.IM2009★ 72 cited

Measurement of the scintillation time spectra and pulse-shape discrimination of low-energy beta and nuclear recoils in liquid argon with DEAP-1

P. -A. Amaudruz, M. Batygov, B. Beltran +69

The DEAP-1 low-background liquid argon detector was used to measure scintillation pulse shapes of electron and nuclear recoil events and to demonstrate the feasibility of pulse-sha…