Conveners
Session 8: Background studies, models, and simulations
- Frank Calaprice (Princeton University)
Marco Selvi
(INFN Bologna)
12/04/2013, 11:45
oral presentation
Ms
Lea Reichhart
(University of Edinburgh)
12/04/2013, 12:10
Background studies, models, and simulations
oral presentation
Rare signal searches, such as those performed for direct dark matter detection and neutrinoless double beta decay experiments, are typically carried out in deep underground laboratories, with the consequence that the rock over-burden of such facilities dramatically reduces many of the background signals that would be present if the experiments were conducted in surface laboratories. As...
Dr
Jodi Cooley
(SMU)
12/04/2013, 12:30
Background studies, models, and simulations
oral presentation
Rejection and protection from backgrounds is a key issue for the next generation SuperCDMS SNOLAB experiment which will have a cross-section sensitivity of 9^-46 cm^2 for spin-independent WIMP-nucleon interactions. We have identified 210Pb as the dominant source of electromagnetic background seen in our detectors through a study that correlates the alpha and beta particles resulting from...
Dr
Anthony Villano
(University of Minnesota)
12/04/2013, 12:50
Background studies, models, and simulations
oral presentation
The two leading simulation frameworks used for the simulation of cosmic ray muons underground
are Geant4 and FLUKA. There have been in the past various questions raised as to the equivalence of
these codes regarding cosmogenically produced neutrons and radioactivity in an underground environment.
Many experiments choose one of these frameworks and because they typically have different...
