Conveners
Signal Reconstruction (3C)
- Maria Elena Monzani (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
The photon detection system of DUNE Far Detector (FD) is based on ARAPUCA technology. The new version of ARAPUCA, named X-ARAPUCA, will be used in the first and second modules. As the second module is based on vertical drift, the design of the X-ARAPUCA needed to be changed and simulation studies are fundamental for the optimization of the device. This work presents the simulation studies of...
The MicroBooNE detector, located in the Booster Neutrino Beamline (BNB) at Fermilab, has been operating since 2015 as part of the Short Baseline Neutrino (SBN) program. MicroBooNE's Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber is accompanied by a Photon Detection System (consisting of 32 PMTs) used to measure the argon scintillation light and determine the timing of the neutrino interactions. This...
Photon detection is important for liquid argon detectors for direct dark matter searches or neutrino property measurements. Precise simulation of photon transport is widely used to understand the probability of photon detection in liquid argon detectors. Traditional photon transport simulation within the framework ofGeant4brings extreme challenge to computing resources with kilo-tonne-scale...
The NEXT collaboration aims to observe neutrinoless double beta decay in gaseous 136Xe using a high pressure gaseous Xe time projection chamber with signal amplification by means of electroluminescence (EL). One of the advantages of the technique is that it allows for track reconstruction making use of a sensor plane equipped with SiPMs located nearby the EL region. However, the signals...
Experiments that use liquid noble gasses as target materials, such as argon and xenon, play a significant role in direct detection searches for WIMP(-like) dark matter. As these experiments grow in size, they will soon encounter a new background to their dark matter discovery potential from neutrino scattering off nuclei and electrons in their targets. Therefore, a better understanding of this...
Neutral bremsstrahlung (NBrS) in the gas phase of Argon and Xenon TPCs has been measured recently, with little ambiguity, by groups in Novosibirsk and Coimbra/Santiago. While its implications for future experiments are intriguing, and so far open-ended, a lack of reliable calculations precludes the full exploitation of the phenomenon.
We have recently created a simulation module in the...
Innovative experimental techniques are needed to further search for dark matter weakly interacting massive particles. The ultimate limit is represented by the ability to efficiently reconstruct and identify nuclear and electron recoil events at the experimental energy threshold. Gaseous Time Projection Chambers (TPC) with optical readout are very promising candidates thanks to the 3D event...
Bubble chambers using liquid xenon (and liquid argon) have been operated (resp. planned) by the Scintillating Bubble Chamber (SBC) collaboration for GeV-scale dark matter searches and CEvNS from reactors. This will require a robust calibration program of the nucleation efficiency of low-energy nuclear recoils in these target media. Such a program has been carried out by the PICO collaboration,...
