6 papers
Directional dark matter signatures of the Large Magellanic Cloud
Javier Reynoso-Cordova, Nassim Bozorgnia, Marie-Cécile Piro
The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), the most massive satellite of the Milky Way (MW), can significantly perturb the local dark matter (DM) distribution. We study its impact on direct…
Demonstration of Efficient Radon Removal by Silver-Zeolite in a Dark Matter Detector
Daniel Durnford, Yuqi Deng, Carter Garrah +6
We present the performance of an efficient radon trap using silver-zeolite Ag-ETS-10, measured with a spherical proportional counter filled with an argon/methane mixture. Our study…
Calibration Plan for the SBC 10-kg Liquid Argon Detector with 100 eV Target Threshold
E. Alfonso-Pita, D. Baxter, E. Behnke +32
The Scintillating Bubble Chamber (SBC) Collaboration is designing a new generation of low background, noble liquid bubble chamber experiments with sub-keV nuclear recoil threshold.…
Cosmic Ray Muons in Laboratories Deep Underground
William Woodley, Anatoli Fedynitch, Marie-Cécile Piro
We provide comprehensive calculations of total muon fluxes, energy and angular spectra, and mean muon energies in deep underground laboratories - under flat overburdens and mountai…
The Large Magellanic Cloud: expanding the low-mass parameter space of dark matter direct detection
Javier Reynoso-Cordova, Nassim Bozorgnia, Marie-Cécile Piro
We investigate how the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) impacts the predicted signals in near-future direct detection experiments for non-standard dark matter (DM) interactions, using…
Model for bubble nucleation efficiency of low-energy nuclear recoils in bubble chambers for dark matter detection
Xiang Li, Marie-Cécile Piro
Bubble chambers are promising technologies for detecting low-energy nuclear recoils from the elastic scattering of dark matter particle candidates. Bubble nucleation occurs when th…