Abstract
A Geant4-based Monte Carlo package named G4DS has been developed to simulate the response of DarkSide-50, an experiment operating since 2013 at LNGS, designed to detect WIMP interactions in liquid argon. In the process of WIMP searches, DarkSide-50 has achieved two fundamental milestones: the rejection of electron recoil background with a power of ∼107, using the pulse shape discrimination technique, and the measurement of the residual 39Ar contamination in underground argon, ∼3 orders of magnitude lower with respect to atmospheric argon. These results rely on the accurate simulation of the detector response to the liquid argon scintillation, its ionization, and electron-ion recombination processes. This work provides a complete overview of the DarkSide Monte Carlo and of its performance, with a particular focus on PARIS, the custom-made liquid argon response model.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | P10015 |
Journal | Journal of Instrumentation |
Volume | 12 |
Issue number | 10 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Oct 23 2017 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Instrumentation
- Mathematical Physics
Keywords
- Dark Matter detectors (WIMPs, axions, etc.)
- Detector modelling and simulations I (interaction of radiation with matter, interaction of photons with matter, interaction of hadrons with matter, etc)
- Ionization and excitation processes
- Noble liquid detectors (scintillation, ionization, double-phase)