26–30 juil. 2010
Montpellier 2 University
Fuseau horaire Europe/Paris

Instrumentation, Acquisition and Analysis of the SIMPLE Dark Matter Search Signals

26 juil. 2010, 17:30
1m
Amphithéatre Dumontet (Montpellier 2 University)

Amphithéatre Dumontet

Montpellier 2 University

Place Eugene Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier Cedex 5 FRANCE
Poster Dark Matter Direct Searches Poster session

Orateur

Dr Miguel Felizardo (Centro de Física Nuclear, University of Lisbon)

Description

We describe new instrumentation for the SIMPLE experiment, and its use in identifying, validating and rejecting non-WIMP backgrounds in the project measurements. Besides acoustic intrinsic discrimination, evidence is provided for a possible discrimination between alpha and neutron events via analysis of the signal parameters.

Authors

Dr Miguel Felizardo (Centro de Física Nuclear, University of Lisbon) Dr Tom Girard (Centro de Fisica Nuclear, University of Lisbon)

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