Browsing Department of Physics, Engineering Physics and Astronomy Graduate Theses by Subject "Dark matter"
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Cryogenic Scintillators for Rare-Event Searches
(2015-05-22)Rare-event searches, such as the direct detection of dark matter, of neutrinoless double beta decay and of the decay of long-lived radioisotopes, require highly-sensitive radio-pure detectors to measure extremely rare ... -
Optical And Acoustical Studies Of The Proposed PICO-250L Dark Matter Detector
(2014-11-20)In the first part of this work I explore the possibility of using linear alkylbenzene, the buffer liquid for the future PICO-250L detector, configured as a liquid scintillator that could provide information on the background ... -
Pulse shape discrimination studies in liquid argon for the DEAP-1 detector
(2008-04-25)A detector with a target mass of 7 kg of liquid argon was designed, constructed and operated at Queen’s University. This detector is a scaled model for the DEAP project toward a tonne-scale argon detector to search for the ...